Arizona citizen., 1875-10-16
INTERPRETING LETTERS.
Secretary DeianO's Letter Of Res isnatiOn and she Presidenrs Ac- ceptiug it.

l careful perusal and just consideration. Mir. Delano conclusively shows thai long before any charges of consequence were in any form raised against him. he insisted upon the President accept ing his resignation. In the face of these letters, what absurd lying it is to say that Mir. Delano was forced out of the Cabinet:
 l WASHINGTON, July 5, 1SI5.-MR, ! PRESIDENT ' nave 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 earnest desire to retire from public life, and you have understood the req son connected with my private busi- ness and domestic afiiictions which have produced and intensified this de sire Last November 1 requested you to accept my resignation. You asked me not to insist upon it, and expressed a desire that 1 remain in your Cabinet until the end of your administration. or as long as I found it agreeable to do so. At your request and solicitation, declined then to insist upon your ac- cep;ance of my resignation, assuring you, however, that l must resign dur- ing the early part of the ensuing Spring. When that period arrived, and during the month of April and May, you ad- vised me again not to resign, which advice agreed with my own judgment. The reasons for this conclusion need not be stated here.
 Since you were called by your fel- low-citizens to perform the office of Chief Magistrate, you have invited me. without the solicitation of myself or friends, so far as I know and believe. to take charge of two important trusts the Internal Revenue Bureau and the Interior Department. l was Commis- siOner of Internal Revenue from March 1869, to November, 1S70-a period of one year and eight months. The re suits of my administration you know, and they are not, I trust, entirely un- known to my fellow-citizens. The diff faculties of this position, and the dili- gence, care, and labor required O. me in dischaTging duties, you also un. derstand; and of these 1 trust the pub ! lie has some correct appreciation. assumed the duties of the Interior De partment in November, 1870, and have discharged them to the best of my ability for a period of four years and eight months. These have been labo- rious, difficult and delicate. They have embraced the supervision of the General Land office, the Indian Bu- reau, the Pension and Patent Offices, the Bureau of Education, and mass of miscellaneous business unknown to any except those connected with the public service. These cause the head of the Department vast amount of ju- dicial labor and responsibility which is not generally understood The Ind ian Bureau, as you know, is full of in- tricate, delicate and vexatiOus ques- tons growing out of the numerous Indian treaties and the imperfectly de- fined relations existing between the government and the Indian races. The execution of this service is also great " embarrassed by the remOteness of localities where much of it has to be performed, which has prevented per sonal supervision over the persons em- ployed, as we'll as by want of salaries large enough to command talent, char acter and capacity equal to the duties and responsibilities of the position; :; and many important duties of the head of the Department are connected with the material and pecuniary interests of individuals. These interests gre often large in amount, and the Secretary, in deciding, must necessarily reject the. claim of one of the parties, and there by not unfrequently finds himself as- sailed by misrepresentation and false hood of defeated claimants. I feel con fident that a thorough and impartial examination into the present condition of he public service connected with the bureau attached to the Interior De partment, will show that it has never been in a more prosperous condition than it now is, and feel sure that the most scrutinizing examination will sus- tain the opinion here expressed, and that it will also lead to the convIctiGn that great improvements have been made under your policy in the service connected with the Indian Bureau. You have always frightened my bur dens by cheerful, prompt and cordial cooperation.
 When our official relations are sev- cred, shall always continue to cherish for you the highest regard, founded upon my unqualified confidence in your unselfish patriotism, the accuracy and solidity of your judgment, and in the high sense of justice which has al ways characterized you, and from which, in my opinion, nothing can tempt you intentionally to deviate.
 I have the honor to be,
 With great sincerity,
 Your friend and obed't serv't,