The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

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Special Despatch to The Evenislg Telegraph
WASHINGTON, March 16.-The Senate gall
leres were crowded at an early hour this mora
ing to hear the negro Senator Revels. He OBJ
tanned the floor soon after the expiration of the
morning hour, and proceeded to read speech
against the Bingham amendment.
ReveIs speech
did not last over half an hour. AS soon as he
had finished the galleries thinned out aud inter-
est seemed to die in the Georgia bill.
The Texas Bill
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate con-
sidered the Texas bill to-day, and agreed to
report 1t as it passed the House.
COmmissioner DelanO
left for Philadelphia this morning on official
business.
A Delegation of Pilots
was before Mr.. Lynch's Committee on Com
merce aud Navigation to-day, asking that their
interests may be taken care of in the bill now
before the committee for the revival of Ameri-
can commerce.
Condition of Georgia.
Despatch 10 the Associated Press.
Representative Brooks to-day received the
following kilograms from leading men in Savan-
nah, Edward g. Anderson and Henry Bryan,
who furnish the following reply to a telegram
from w. L. Avery, sent to two Senators on
Tuesday,
80 far as this statement of Avery reflects on
this community it is q malicious fabrication.
In behalf of slandered people we ask you to
it." We refer you to the following extract from
the Savannah Republicdn of this mornng:-
"Never was our community more quiet and free
from all political excitement and disorder of
every kind. The Government officers will testify
to the truth of what say. Avery, who thus
moves among us quietly enjoying the protection
of our laws, and under cover of the telegraph
maligns and ISLANDERS them, is a New Yorker,
and the attorney and lobbyist of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad. We learn that he resides
In Atlanta at least he has opened an Office there.
He and Others procured last Year, by arts best
known to themselves, State endorsement OF
bonds to the amount of many millions. Avery
arrived in this city Friday last, and if he has
been threatened or treated with the slightest
disrespect we have yet to hear of it. The only
trouble that we can hear of in Georgia is some
disturbance on the Brunswick Railroad between
the contractor and laborers, the latter not hav-
| ing been paid"
| A Colored Delegation Visits the President.
A delegation OF colored men from Georgia, repre-
sentiDg the coored men OF that State and composed
| of Simon A. Beard, Chairman; Alfred Ketcham,
| Secretary; II. g. Campbell, sr., Romulus Moore r.
| Smith, Abraham Colby, j. f. Castere, II. G. Camp
bell, Jr., and John Warren, all OF whom members
Of the Legislature excepting the Chairman and
| Secretary, called at the Executive Mansion this
morning and had an interview with the President
They we're unaccompanied by any Senator or
| Representative and claim to he represented here
by no party whatever Their object stated TO the
| President, was to obtain his influence towards the
| defeat OF the Bingham amendment to the Georgia
| bill, the adoption of which they asserted would
destroy any OF the benefits which had accrued to the
citizens of their race in Georgia by the adoption of
the constitutional amendments.
They also urged upon the President to give them
his favor in procuring the proper legislation towards
securing the rights OF the coored people in that
State, as they not now In the enjoyment OF them
Among their statements was one that the coored
people OF the State had no confidence in the Bryant
faction Of the Georgia Republicans, and he did not
represent the views OF the coored members OF the
Legislature I'm any respect Several OF the members
OF the delegation addressed the President, detailing
the condition OF affairs concerning the colored
people Of Georgia.
The President said he felt an interest In atfording
full protection to all classes OF citizens In all the
States of the Unlon and he thought the proper egis
ation should be directed to this end, II 1t went
further in the South than In ordinary cases, consd
erng the circumstances OF that portion OF the coun
try resulting from the war.