The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-27
Delano Resigns.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 90

The following is the letter of Hon. G.
Delano, resisning the office Of secretary OF
the interior, with the presidents letter of
acceptance. II may be stated that on the
22d inst. (the date of the presidents letter.
Delano, in company with a friend, called
on President Grant at Elizabeth, N. j., to
urge the presidents acceptance of his resig-
nation. 1t is probable from present indt-
cations that the appointment of successor
will be made from Pennsylvania, and that
his name will be announced tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 1875.
Mr.. PRESIDENT have the honor to trans
init with this note my resignation of the
office of secretary of the interior. You
have been aware for some time of my ear
est desire to retire from public life, and you
have understood reasons connected with my
private. business and domestic afllction that
has produced and intensified this DESIRE
Last fall, in November, I requested you to
accept my resignation. You asked me not
to insists upon it, and expressed desire
that | remain in your cabinet until the end
of your administration. or as long as |
found it agreeable to do so. At your re-
quest and solicitation, l declined then to
insist upon your acceptance of my resigna-
ton, assuring you, however, that | must
resign during the early part of the ensuing
spring. When that period arrived, and
during the months of April and May, you
advised me again not to resign, which aa-
vice agreed with my own judgment. The
reasons for this conclusion need not be
stated here. Since you were called by your
fellow citizens TO perform the duties of
chief magistrate, Won have invited me,
without solicitation on the part of myself
or friends, so for as know ard believe, to
take charge of t~o important and res
poIsibc public trusts. the Internal revenue
bureau and the interior department. l was
commissioner of internal revenue from
March 1869, TO November 1870. period
of one year and eight months The results
of my administration YOU know, and they
are not, trust, entirely unknown TO my
fellow citizens. The difficulties of this POI
sition and the diligence, care and labor re-
quired of me in discharging its duties you
also understood, aud of these / trust the
public has some correct appreciation.
assumed The duties of the interior depart
ment in November 1870, and have dis
1ha oil l,o,, ~ fhp haot of NV ability for
| the period of four years and eight months.
They have been laborious, difficult and
delicate they have embraced the super
vision of the general land Office, bureau of
education and mass of miscellaneous bust
ness unknown to any except those connec-
| ted with public the service. The business
of.the land office is very extensive and in
wolves the adjudication aud settlement of
legal questions hfowing out of the
railroad giants, literally and profusely
made few years since, and Mexican
and Spanish grants made before we acquir-
ed, California and Now Mexico, and also
those growing out of our mine'al laws and
large mining interests, to say nothing OF
those that arise under our homestead and
presumption svstems- These cause the
head Of the department vast amount of
judicial labor and responsibility which is
not generally understood. The Indian bu-
reau as you know is full of intricate, deli
cate and vexatious questions, growing out
of numerous Indian treaties and imperfect
| y, defined relations existing between the
government and the Indian races. The
cxecution OF this service is also greatly en-
barrassed by the remoteness of the locali-
tics where much of it has to be performed,
thus preventing contact and personal ST.
pervision over persons employed, as well
as BY want of salaries large enough to CON-
mand talent, character and capacity equal
to the duties and responsibilities of the po-
sitions. Many of the importantduties of the
head OF the department are connected with
the material aud pecuniary interests of in
dividuals These interests often large in
amount. The secretary in deciding must
necessarily reject the claim of one Of the
parties, and thereby not unfrequently finds
himself assaied by misrepresentation and
falsehoods Of defeated claimants. ,.DI
j feel confident that thorough rpd i'm
partial examination into the present condl-
ton of the public service connected with
each and all bureaus attached to the inter-
Tor department, viii show to all candid and
| fair-mndcd men that it has never been in a
more prosperous or better condition than II
now is, and feel sure that the most scru-