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WASHINGTON.
Secretary Manning Ten
ders His Resignation.
THE PRESIDENT DECLINES 1T.
The Chinese Indemnity Bill Passes
the Senate--The Recent Land
Order Revoked.

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the Senate--The Recent Land
Order Revoked.
Special TO the Herald bv the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, June 4.--The following
self-explanatory correspondence is made
public this evening;
WASHINGTON, D. g., May 20, 1886
NY Dear Sir:-I have decided to
place in your hands my resignation Of
the Office which you did me the honor
to ask me to nc sept fifteen months ago.
My reasons for this decision are both
public and personal. Since partial re-
covery, my health has 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. The full recovery OF my health
is pronounced to be an affair OF
weeks, and a longer period OF
rest, especially during the hot months,
is prescribed, or at least advised, as q
prudent regimen thereafter. Compli-
ance with this advice would not be prac.
ticable were / to resume now the gen.
eral direction OF the Treasury Depart.
ment, even If abating something of the
energy which it seemed needful to ex-
pend in the first year OF my work.
Supervision at distance would be more
hindrance than help to the Acting Sec
Rotary. But it is not befittiug that q
department of the government 80 diff
cult and so important should be admin.
istered by a convale,oent, studious Of
parrying its daily exactions, nor that the
watohful control Of its enormous infu-
ence or the direction OF its official poll
ices, even under your wise lead, should
be attempted by any one concerned
about outstanding his strength. The
reforms in our fiscal policy which you
have maintained aud which have been
framed and commended to the wisdom
of the legislative branch, are the reforms
necessary to our safety, binding in
honor, obligatory in the traditions OF
Democracy, and set down with the
premises in our statute books. Our
present tariff laws are needless oppres-
sion, instead Of an easy burden; our cur
rency is a chaos into which we pour
from forced purchases OF one of the
precious metals mechanical increment
under the coinage law, so ill-judged and
nntimely that it hinders the opening Of
our minis to the iturAl and unlimited
coinage Of both metals and the free ex-
plnsion OF our gold and silver coin along
with the growing needs Of mighty peo-
pie. ALI OF our nsedful customs revenue
might be collected by strictly revenue
duties upon . few score articles instead
of by extravagsnt or probibitory duties
upon more than four thousand articles.
The mere machinery of the administra-
ton by its own mass aud completely
breaks down and brushes out the enter
prises 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 pres
ent sagacious conduct OF our foreign pol.
10Y by the State Department. Under
the operation OF the currency laws
and tariff laws now in force,
which you and the forty ninth
Congress were elected by the peo-
pie TO repeal and reform the industries
of our country, are plunging heavily
along miry road toward toreseen dan.
gers. We talk OF arbitrating our re-
speetive share OF the disaster instead OF
knocking off our self-imposed fetters and
releasing the general prosperity. This
IL not. in my deliberate judgment. the
time when the President can delay TO
provide for or afford to dispense with an
actual g. well as a titular head OF the
Treasury Department. The fiscal policy
of the Federal Government in respect to
debt SO large. taxation so pervasive.
and q currency which is universal,
cannot fail Of being the chief fac
tor in the national and individual
well being. Your duty, TO which you
have addressed yourself with such c,ezr
sad unhinching purpose, the duty of
Congress In the premises and laws which
may. yet be enacted for the guidance of
the Treasury Department, will require
that you be assisted in their administra-
ton by an officer capable, OF full eff
cheney, and unwearied circumspection.
Permit me, therefore, without hesita-
ton, to accept my temporary disability
as q summons TO stand aside and make
way for one Immediately capable Of full
filling every requirement Of the public
service. Very respectfully, yours.
DANIEL MANNING.
To the President.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. |
June LIST. 1886.
Nv Dear M. ManBing.-I have re-
,ceivvd your letter. In which your resig.
nation Is rendered as Secretary Of the
Treasury. The sentiments therein con-
rained are entirely in keeping with the
devotion to public duty and loyalty to
the interests of the government which
have characterized your relations to the
present administration. am not sur
prised, though much impressed, by the
concern which you evince for the cor.
rection Of abuses and the Inauguration
of reforms TO which in your letter you
allude and which have been SO often
the topics Of our anxious consultations.
/ have hoped that the day
was at hand when the party to
which we belong, influenced largely
by faith and confidence in you and in
the wisdom of your views would be
quickensd in the sense OF responsibility,
and would be led to more harmonious
action upon the important questions
with which you have had to deal. In
considering your proposed resignation
shonld be strongly inclined by my per-
sonal regard for you and the value of
YOUR services to the country, to beg you
to at once and entirely abandon your
inclination to relinquish your part of
the arduous duty, butt am convinced that
should no do this, aud that in all
l suggest aud ask, should have much
at heart your welfare and safety. You
have placed your resignation in my
hands; my responsibility here begins,
and know that the responsibility will
be met and the wishes OF the people Of
the land fully answered when | ask you
to postpone for awhile any insistancs
upon the acceptance of your resignation,
and that your conclusion thereon may
be delayed until the effects OF con.
stinued rest and freedom from off,
scial care upon your condition may be
better tested. |, therefore, earnestly re-
quest you to accept leave of absence I'M
al the first day Of October next, when, if
YOU desire, the question of your resigna.
ton may be resumed. with. perhaps,
better means OF judging the facts and
probabilities which should be considered
n its determination. Hoping that you
will consent to this suggestion, and
trusting that your encouraging progress
Stewards restoration to health may con.
tInue, am, faithfully, your friend,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
To Hon. Daniel Manning. Secretary
of the Treasury.
Secretary Manning has accepted the
Presidents suggestion and will allow his
-esignation to lie over until his leave Of
abaeuce shall have expired. Assistant
Secretary Fairchild has been requested
10 continue to act as Secretary until that
timc, and has consented to do so. The
secretary and Mrs. Manning, accompa-
pied by Mr.. Jos. W. Miller, Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue. AID Mrs. Miller
viii leave Washington tomorrow after
noon for White Sulphur Springs, Vir-