The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-23
WASHINGTON.
DeInno's Resignation Positively Denied

| peLnnOS HheShS AAO"'
| WASHINGTON, April 22.-The report that the
| President has requested the resignation of Sec
retary Delano, even by intimatlOn, is to-day
| positively denied at the Executive Mansion.
| Secretary Delano returned to Washington
| this evening and received the calls OF many
| prominent friends. who were anxious to learn
| whether there was any foundation for the re-
| port that the President had requested him to
| resign his office on account OF alleged corrup-
| ton in or concerning the Department. OF the
| Interior. He stated in conversation with
| representative of the associated press Tonight,
| that last fall he notified the President that it
| was his intention to retire from the cabinet as
| he desired to devote himself to private affairs
| in Ohio, but that the President requested him
| to remain in the cabinet as long as ne could
| conveniently do so. In accordance with this
| EXPRESSED desire of the President, Mr.. Delano
| reIipquished his purpose of immedia tely retir-
| ing from the Department, having merely de-
| ferred his resignation until the hrst OF thls
| month. Shortly after the close of the special
| session of the Ssuate he went to Ohio for the
| purpose of arranging his private affairs pre-,
| limpary to rendering his resignation. and did
| not return here till "Wednesday evening OF last
week, but had no opportunity to converse with
| the President prior to his departure Tor Con-
| cord the following morning. The Secretary
was detained in Washington throughout Thurs
| day hearing the arguments IN the quadruplex
| telegraph case but Joined the presidential par
| ty in New York the next day, expecting to have
| private opportunity during the trip to Boston
| to converse with the President aud again re-
| quest to he relieved of his position as Secretary
| of the Interior. No such opportunity was az
| forded, the Presidents time being occupied
| with committees of arrangement and others.
| While in New England the President and
| members of the cabinet became separated, and
| it was not until the party were returning from
| Boston to New York that the subject was
| brought up by the Postmaster General handing
| to Mr. Delano a newspaper containing state
| ment that the President had requested his res
| ignation. The President expressed surprise
| that such statement should be made, and re-
marked to another member or his CABINET that
| he never made any such request, directly or in
| directly.
Mr.. Delano positively asserts that the Presi-
dent has not, either in writing or verbally, re-
| quested his resignation or given MN any reason
| to suppose any complaints or charges have been
made affecting the integrity of tie Interior
| Department or his administration of its af-
| fairs.
| In response to question whether he now in
| tended to carry out his original purpose OF re-
| signing, Mr.. Delano made no definite reply.
| The President was also Intercepted to-day
| as to the truth of the statement that he had
requested Delano to resign, and gave to it an
| emphatic contradiction.
| NEW YORK, April 22.-Gen. Babcock stated
| in this city yesterday that there was not the
| least shadow of truth 10 any of the statements
| made that Secretary Delano had been asked to
resign by the President, or that the Secretary
| had any intention of 80 doing, or that any
cause existed which would lead to his resigna'
ton.
Resignation of Attorney General Will
| Hams.
| WASHINGTON, April 22.-Attorney General
| Williams to-day rendered his resignation, to
take effect the 18th of May. The resignation
is not yet accepted. The friends of Williams
| say he designs returning to Oregon and enter
| ing into the contest for United States Senator.
Supreme Court Cases.
Case of United States vs. Farragut involving
| question Of the right of the officers of Admiral
| Farragut's fleet in the capture of New Orleans
| to prize and military salvage ia respect to the
| captured vessels which had been taken from the
| loyal owners by the confederates and were re-
| stored to such owners after capture, will be ar
| gued tomorrow.
| r. is the general impression that no opinion
| in the Grant Parish case, involving the constl-
! nationality of the Enforcement Act will not be
| decided at this term, but the same authority
asserts that a large majority OF the court think
| the act is unconstitutional:
All the other cases which have been argued
| thus term will be decided before adjournment.
| Rumor that Secretary Bristow WEI sue
{ coed williams.
| It is believed that Secretary Bristow will be
/ appointed Attorney General in the place OF
| Williams, resigned.
| yaPioEs Matters.
The internal revenue receipts to-day were
| 1924 455.
The custom receipts for the week ending
| April 18th were as follows New York, 81
228, 027 Boston, $685., 2Gl; Philadelphia. $780,
| GIG; Baltimore, S153.2j4
BY order Of the Postmaster General John B.
| Ford, Secodd class clerk in the inspection d.
| vision of the contract office of the Post Office
! Department, was to-day discharged upon the
| discovery of evidence duplicating him in the
recent frauds in that bureau.