St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-05
MANNING WILL STAY.
The Secretary Of the Treasury Sent His
Resignation to the President
Fortnight Ago,
But Mr.. Cleveland Refuses to Accept It at
Present, and Gives Daniel Short
Vacation.
The Chinese Indemnity Bill at Last
Passes the Senate--It Appropri-
ates 81 10000.
Conger Sat Upon During the Debate
on the Diplamotic Btu--The
Fisheries Question.
Manning Will Take n vacation.

on the Diplamotic Btu--The
Fisheries Question.
Manning Will Take N Vacation.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The following
correspondence, which has just been given
out, explains itself:
Washington d. c., May 2O.-My Dear Sir:
l have decided to place in your hands my
resignation OF the Office which you die me the
honor to ask me to accept fifteen months ago.
MY reasons for this decision are both public
and personal. Since the partial recovery of
my health permitted me to reflect upon the
demands of the public service, to which had
given, perhaps too freely, all my strength,
and upon the conditions of resuming my
labors at your side have not for a moment
questioned what must be my present duty.
Inc full recovery of my health is pronounced
10 be an affair of weeks and a longer
period of rest. especially during the
hot months, is prescribed, or at least
ADVISED as a prudent regime thereafter.
Compliance with this advice would not be
practicable1 were 1 to resume now the gen.
eral direction Of the treasury department.,
even II alating something of the energy
which 1t seemed needful to expend in the
nrst year OF my work. Supervision at q dis
rance would be more u hindrance than help
TO the acting secretary; but it is not befit-
ting that department of the government so
aifhcult and so important should be admins
tere1 by a convalescent, studious Of parry
lnglts daily eXactions, nor shat the watchful
control OF its enormous influence or the di-
rectlon OF It's fiscal policies, even under your
wise lead, should be attempted by any
one concerned about outstanding his
strength The reforms in our ifs
cal policy which you have maintained
and which have been framed and COM
mended to the wisdom of the legislative
branch are reforms nececessary to our safety
binding in honor, obligatory in the traditions
OF the Democracy, set down with promises in
our statute book. Our present tariff laws are
q needless oppression, instead Of an easy
burden. Our currency is a chaos into which
we pour from forced purchases of one of the
precious metals. mechanical increase under
coinage law so ill-judged and uutimely that
it hinders the opening of our minis to the
natural and unlimited coinage of both metals,
and the free expansion of our gold and silver
com along with the growing needs of q
mighty people. All our needful customs
revenue might be collected by strictly reve-
nue. duties upon few score articles instead
of by extravaganza or prohibitory duties upon
more than 1000 articles. The mere machin-
cry OF administration by its own mass and
compleXity
BREAKS DOWN AND CRUsHEs
out the enterprise it assumes to protect. A
better currency than elsewhere exists might
be had by few lines of repeating and en-
powering legislation, followed by two or
three years of capable administration of the
treasury and Joined with the present saga
cious conduct of our foreign policy by the
state department. Under the operation of
the currency laws and tariff laws now in
force which you and the forty-ninth con-
gress were elected by the people to repeal
ana reform, the burdened industries of our
country are plunging heavily along a miry
road toward forseen danger. We talk of ar
Ditratlng our respective share of disaster in
stead OF knocking off our self-imnosed letters
and releasing general prosperity This is
not, in my deliberate Judgment, time when
tne president can delay to provide or
afford to dispense with, an actual
as well as a titular head Of. the treas
ury department. The fiscal policy of the
FEDERAL government in respect to a debt so
large taxation so pervasive and currency
whlch Is universal, cannot fail of being
chlef factor in national aid and individual
well being. Your own duty to which you
have addressed yourself with such unfiincbing
purpose, the duty OF congress in the premises
ana the laws which may yet be enacted for
the guidance of the treasury department will
require that you be assisted in this admr,is-
tration by an officer capable OF full efficiency
and unwearied circumspection. Permit me-
therefore, without hesitation to accept nv
temporary disability as summons to stand
aside and make way for one Immediately
capable of fulfilling every requ frement of the
public service. Very respectfully yours,
DANIEL MANNING.
To the president.
CLEvELAND'S REPLY
Executive Mansion Washington, June l.
My dear Mr.. Manning: I have received your
letter, in which your resignation is rendered
as secretary of the treasury. The sentiments
therein contained are entirely in keeping with
the devotion to public duty and the loyalty to
the Interests of the government which have
characterized your relations TO the present
administration. / am not surprised though
much impressed by the concern which you
evince for the correction of the abuses and
the Inauguration of the reforms to which. in
your letter, you allude, and which have been
so often topics of our anxious consultations.
have hoped that the day was al hand when
the party to which we belong, influenced
largely by faith aud confidence in you and in
the wisdom of your views, would be quickened
in the sense of responsibility and led to more
harmonious action upon the import
ant questions with which you have had
to deal. In considering your proposed
resignation 1 should be strongly inclined by
my personal regard and friendship and by
the value of your services to the country to
beg you to at once and entirely abandon your
inclination to relinquish your part of an
arduons duty. But I am convinced that I
should not do this, and that in all suggest I
have most at heart your welfare and safety
You have placed your resignation in my
hands. My responsibility here begins and I
know that the responsibility will be met and
the wishes of the people of the land fully
answered when / ask you to postpone for
while any 1nSiStance upon the acceptance of
your resignation, and that your final conclu-
sion thereon may be delayed until the effects
of continued rest and freedom from official
care upon your condition may be better
rested. Therefore [ earnestly request Won to
accept leave OF absence until the LIST
day of October next, when, if Won
deserve it, the question of your resignation
may be resumed, with perhaps better means
Of judging all the facts and probabilities
which should be considered in it's determine
ton. Hoping that you will consent to this
suggestion, and trusting that your encourage
ing progress toward restoration to health NAV
continue, am faithfully your fiend.
GROVER CLEVELAND
Hon. Daniel Manning, secretary of the
treasury.
Secretary Manning has accepted the
presidents suggestion and will allow his
resignation to lie over until his leave of alb
sense shall have expired. Assistant Secre-
tary Fairchild has been requested to con-
tinue to act as secretary until that time and
has consented to do so. Secretary and
Mrs. Manning accompanied by Mr.. joseph
w. Miller, commissioner of internal reve
nue. and Mrs. Miller, will leave Washing
ton tomorrow afternoon for Hot Springs
Va.
Chinese Indemnity Bill Passed.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The Chinese
indemnity bill was taken up and placed be-
fore the senate, and Mr.. Cockrell took the
floor. He argued strongly against the bill.
He read at some length from the official cor
respondence OIL the subject, to show that all
the persons engaged in the violence COM
planned of were foreigners. This CORE
spondence went also to show that these
foreigners as well as the Chinese complaint
ing had been brought there under a system
of contracts for the supply of cheap labor to
supplant American laborers. The Chinese