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Show fllonlcomerr Denies Ingalls' Statements. State-ments. Washington, March 8. Montgomery, of the Interior Department, has written Senator Sena-tor Ingalls in reply to the comments of the latter in his speech of the 2d instant, relative rela-tive to Montgomery's position on the school question. In his letter Montgomery says: "I am not a little surprised that in order to make good your opposition to my confirma--tion you appear to have thought it incumbent incum-bent on you not to confine yourself to ob-j ob-j acting to what I had said in my pamphlet, but to many things which I never said at any time nor in any pla'cg. If the sentiments contained in the " pamphlet I sent you had, in your pinion, constituted sufficient objections to the confirmation con-firmation of my appointment,- you could soarcely have deemed it necessary to supplement sup-plement the objections by a series of quotations quota-tions from a false- and anonymous pamphlet, pamph-let, neither could you have thought it necessary neces-sary to so torture my card as published (first in San Francisco, August 7th, 1873, and afterward in the New York Tribune, July 0th, 1885), either into twelve years' silence or into a partial admission on my part of the infamous utterances attributed to me, although al-though emphatically disproved by more than a dozen nnimpeachable witnesses, including in-cluding two well-known newspaper reporters, all of whom were present and heard what I did say on the occasion in question. I am free to admit that if I had ever uttered or entertained the infamous sentiment which you and your anonymous author attributed to me, I would not only be unfit to fiSdl the office, but unworthy of the countenance of all honorable and intelligent people. ' The Popery' cry is to be the weapon with which my opponents propose to fight me. I trust that in future it may be an honest cry of at least a seeming truth, backed by as much as one reputable witness, and not resting wholly on the false charges of an anonymous anony-mous scribbler." |