Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-02
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Pacific coas. Postal Changes.

| EaCsHt Noast SOstSi manages,
WASHINGTON. May 1st.-The following
| Pacific coast postal changes are announced /:
| Offices established-Promon Box Elder
county, Utah, Louis w. Parry, Postmaster
! Birchboy, Wnatcom county, w. T., Bernard
| II. Bruins, Postmaster Fishers, Clarl, coun.
| ty, w. T., Solomon ". Fisher, Postmaster.
| Office discontinued - Hillsdale, Lassen
county. Cal.
Name acknowledgements Creek, Spo-
kane county, W. T., to Alpha.
| Postmasters appointed-John B. Callicott
Altamont, Alameda county, Cal; William
| II. Gibson, Castroville, Monterey county
county, CAL. Robert A. Booth, Yoncalla,
Douglass county Or; John G. Runyan,
Boistfort, Lewis county, w. T.; J. P. Jones,
Wilkeson, Pierce county, w. T.; A. c.
Cowan, Contention, Cachise county, Ari-
IONA; Thomas I. Williams, Wilcox, Pima
county, Arizona.
Dorsey Insists pom Being Investigated"
WASHINGTON, May 1st.-The following
letter is furnished for publication
WASHINGTON, April 3Oth
To Hon. Thomas James, Postmaster. General-Sr I:
You do not need be informed that for many days
past the newspapers Of the country have teemed
with teegraphic disp5 tches from Washie gton,
charging frauds in the POstotice Department. and
in them have been nude conspicuous mark for
the shafts of the assailaIts. The authors OF this
sensation profess speak If all this matter has
been discovered in the Department since your entry
there Ii any charge made against me were true
those who made it should be able to produce evil
dence to sustain it, Ii is upon this point that adj
dress YOU this letter. make complaint that you
have not up to this time deemed it proper to deny
the published statements which make the charges
alluded to appear as if they were the result of an
investigation by you, but | claim as a right that
with me and whoever may bring to you, you make
such investigation to every contract with which
my name has been connected as will enable you to
give me in writing the true status OF each case.
have to ask that this request be granted at once in
order that may not rest under mi furious and un-
just mputatons nor be unnecessarily detained
from other business defend my reputation against
base and unfounded assaults Very respectfully,
s. W. DORSEY.
ROberisOn's Nomination.
WASHINGTON, May 1st-If the nomina-
ton of Judge Robertson is kept before the
Senate, Republican Senators say serious re-
suits will follow to the party, and no matter
what may be the action of the Senate the
question that Republican Senators will be
called upon to decide is, will the rejection or
confirmation be less disastrous in results !?
Conkling appeared by invitation before
the caucus, and made long and
earnest protest against the confirmation,
and to all appeals declined to modify
his opposition in the slightest degree.
He was determined, he said, to use every
effort to defeat the confirmation, and so far
as he was concerned nothing short of the
withdrawal of Judge Robertson's nomination
would avert the struggle. He would not only
fight the nomination in secret session and at
every stage, but should 1t be determined to
act affirmatively on it he would carry
the contest into the open session of the
Senate, and publicly arraigned the Presi-
dent for Wanton breach Of faith
pledged first at New York during his visit.
At the special invitation of the President,
prior to starting upon his campaigning
tour in the West, he had received positive
assurance that no humiliation would be put
upon him and his friends in New York, and
that he would receive due consideration in
all matters of this kind that affected the in
terests of the Republican party in New
York The nomination of Judge Rob
ertson violated their voluntary tender on
the part of the President. and was distasteful
TO himself, Senator Pratt and those leading
Republicans of New York, without whose
labors the State would have voted for Han
cock This is said to describe substantially
the attitude of Mr.. Conkling before the com.
mittee.
American LabOr.RcfDTm League.
New YORK, May 1st.-The twelfth annual
Convention OF the American Labor Reform
League opened in Science Hall this morning.
A series Of resolutions were presented antap.
onistic to the different systems OF govern
ment in Europe and America, setting
forth the injustice of the system, the
working people being brought into tribute
paying vassalage justifying the assassination
Of Alexander IL; asserting the beligerent
right OF labor in self defense against capital,
by which the cause of oppressed millions
may become the cause of human nature
uphoiding the people in social methods
Of resistance developed in the 10y
cotting tactics and land leagues, trades
unions and mutual banks; denouncing
Parnell as conspiring with Gladstone to sac
rifce labor to capital in Ireland asserting
that the tendencies toward an equality of the
sexes shall herald the rise of civil power,
whereby woman shall be free from mans ar
bitrary contol over her person and property,
she acting her natural part in public as
well as private affairs that the censorship Of
the press, exercised here by Comstock & Co.,
show the cowardice and imbecility of states
men; that the Government always fails
where the rights Of the people are concerned;
many are sacrificed to the steady ambition of
a privileged few. The resolutions were dis
cussed, and action will be taken Monday.
The Arctic Search.
WASHINGTON, May 1st.-Captain Hooper,
win during her Arctic cruise, is clothed with
full power by Secretary Window to enforce
the revenue lava, and is directed TO seize all
vessels and arrest all persons detected in vi.
olating the law The Captain is directed to
seize all firearms, ammunition and distilled
spirits attempted to be introduced into the
country without proper permit. Captain
Hooper viii make diigent Inquiry for the
missing whalers aud the Jeanette.
Marine Disaster.
Boston, May 1st.-The bark Mary Nelson,
from Cinfuegss, reports that on April 10th,
latitude 3 Sc, longitude 75' 90, she picked
up small boat containing the master and
steward OF the schooner II. B. Wing of Mo-
bile, from Matanase for New York, who said
the schooner shipped heavy sea and washed
the balance OF the crew overheard. TIE gale
continuing, and the vessel making water and
rolling on her beam ends. the survivors took
TO the boat. Both were very much exhausted,
having been los hours in the small boat.
Illinois State Land League Convention.
CHICAGO, May 1st.-The Illinois State
Land League Convention, met in this city
this afternoon and evening. The Committee
on Credentials reported 1856 delegates present |
from all parts of the State. A regular or
ganization was effected, and speeches were |
made by 7. P. OConnor, McQuinn of Peoria, |
Judge Moran and Others In his address
Judge Moran said he believed the object of |
the Convention to be not to consider the !
wrongs of ireland, but the means to remedy
these wrongs. It was for the liberation. or,
in other words, the naturalization of Ireland
One of the resolutions adopted pledged the |
Convention to the raising Of $3.50. 900 before
January l, 1882, to further the Irish cause.
Double Stage Robbery.
GALVESTON, April 1st.-The Ne,cs' Brack-
e It's special says The east and west bound
stages were robbed last night near Sabinal by
the notorious tall and short man." The
mail sacks were ripped open and the regis
tarnd rnactaoes eNtracted The staca frnm