Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-27
The Fight Against Nrontgomery's APP
pOintment.


pointment.
New YORK, May 26th-The Posts Wash
ington special says: The appointment OF
Zachariah Montgomery is another illustra-
! ton of what is likely to happen III States
rent by factions. In no State have so many
bitter antagonisms been found as in Cali
| fornia. Justice Field has been aggressive
in his opposition to the appointment OF
Montgomery. 1t was he who withdrew
from the Congressional Library the only
pamphlets written by Montgomery upon
the school question, which, carefully marked
and accompanied by verbal explanations.
were presented 10 the President 1t is
known that the President examined
them. and the inference from the
delivery of the commission to Mont
gomery is either that the President
does not think the pamphlets are an attack
upon the common school system, or that
1t IS a matter of indifference TO him if they
are. The question raised by these pamph-
lets was presented to the President in a
twofold aspect. Friends of the public
school system, under the leadership of
Field, protested to the Attorney General
and to the President that to appoint Mont
gomery, particularly to the department
which alone touches the common school
system, so far as the Federal Government
has any relations with the schools, would
be interpreted by friends of the public
schools as a defiance. On the other
hand, it was represented that to
refuse a commission to Montgomery for
no other reason than that he is Roman
Catholic, and is an advocate of education
under the influence of that Church, might
invite the antagonism of another class, and
this other class is one in which is found a
can voters. Another point made by the
California factionists against Montgomery
was that in the Constitutional Convention
in California, or in some other public body,
he introduced a resolution declaring against
the ownership Of property by corporations,
stating that corporate property ought to be
distributed to individuals. 1t cannot be
ascertained that any proof was offered in
support of this report.
Patents to California inventors.
WASHINGTON, May 26th.-Patents were
issued to-day as follows: San Francisco.
AlphOnso b. Bowers, dredging machine;
VIM. Cosbie, horse collar; San Buenaven-
tura Cephas l.. Bard, whip socket River
side, Maggie Boyd, carabine storm shield
and Oyerdress; Stockton, Park \. Buell.,
rabbeting cutter head; San Francisco Jas.
j. Cousines, machine for the manufacture
of stick candy; Los Angeles, Jacob d.
Fayke, sash pulley; Oakland, John d.
Isaacs, concrete tube for cable railways
Clements, James T. Jenkins wedge cutter
Fresno, Rasmus b. Johnson, vineyard
gangplow Wright's station, Sam Loomis,
fruit jar; Auburn. Ogden Mallory, trace
buckle; Sacramento, Samuel Miller, hay
press.
New Postmasters.
WASHINGTON, May Goth. The President
commissioned the following Postmasters
to-day Charles II. Sproute, EIko, New;
Archibald Mcdonnell, Benicia Cal: Ar
thur 5. Barbour, Alameda, CAL John J.
Smith, Oroville, Cal. James 2. Reddick,
Telluride, Colo; James G.. Conner, Aspen
Colo Albert c. Snyder, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Why They Were Suspended.
WASHINGTON, May 26th.-The Postmaster
General to-day said that the Postmasters at
jamestown, n. y, and Vincennes, Ind,
were suspended upon proofs of active and
extreme partisan participation in the bust
ness of elections. The Postmaster at Ma
rengo, Iowa, was suspended because he
had moved Out of the State, and was re-
ported to have offered his resignation for
price.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, MAY 26th.-De Loyernorn.
the new Danish Minister to the United
States, presented his credentials to the
President to-day.
The President will probably visit New
York on the 30th instant and participate
in the local observance of Decoration Day.
About 100000 was paid out of the
United States Treasury to-day for pensions,
making the total amount paid out on that
account during the present month about
$40, 600 600.
Secretary Bayard will leave Washington
next week for the West, to deliver an ora
ton on Thomas Jefferson at the State
of Missouri.
The failure of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing to secure a contract for print
ing postage stamps for the Postoffice De
partment will result in further reduction
in the force employed at the Bureau on the
30th instant The formal transfer of the
office of Chief of the Bureau from Captain
Rttrri1 20, Mr. fol-.