Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-06-10
MANNING RESIGNS.
Tho secretary Tenders His Resignation.
But the President Withholds the Accept

Tho Secretary Tenders His Resignation,
But the President Withholds the Accept
ance.
WAsHINGfoS, June 5.-Secretary Man
Kings letter of resignation. dated May go,
and the Presidents reply; under date of
June !, were made public yesterday after
noon. The Secretary says his reasons for
this decision are both public and personal
the full recovery of his health, and it was
not BETTING that department Of govern
ment so difficult and important as the
treasury portfolio should be administered
by a convalescent. The President in reply
earnestly requested the Secretary to accept
d leave Of absence until October next and
asked that the final conclusion upon the ac-
ceptance of his resignation might be de-
tanned until the effects of continued rest
and freedom from official cares upon his
condition might be tested. Mr.. Manning's
letter is as follows:
WASHINGTON, May 20.-My Dear Sir: have
decided to place in your hands my Iesigna-
ton of the Office which you did 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 has permitted me to reflect upon the
demands OF the public service to which, had
given perhaps too freely ali my strength, and
upon the conditions of rcsumng my iabors
at your side, have not for a moment ques-
toned what must be my present duty. The
full recovery of my health is pronounced to
be an affair of weeks, and longer period OF
rest, especially during the hot months, is
prescribed, or at least advised as prudent
regimen thereafter. .ss
Compliance with this advice would not be-
practicable were to res,l!Ue now the general
direction of the Treasury Department. even
if abating something OF the energy which il
seemed needful to expend in the first year OF
my work. Supervision at a distance would
be more a h-ndrance than help to the act
iEg Secretary. But it is not betting that q
and so important should be administered by
a cOnvalescent, stud Gus of parrying its
daily eXactiOnS, nor that the watchful con-
troll of its enormous influence or the direction
lead Should be attempted by any one con
cerned about outstanding his strength. The
reforms in our fiscal policy which you have
mainta ned, and which have been framed
and commended TO the wisdom of the legis-
lative branch, are reforms necessary to our
safety. binding in honor, and obligatory in
the traditions of the Democracy, set down
with promises in our statute book.
Our present tarff laws are a. needless
Cypress on instead Of an easy burden. Our
currency is chaos into which we pour from
forced purchases of one of the precious
metals. a mechanical increment under Il
coinage law SO i'll judged and untimely that
it binders the opening OF our minis to the
natural and unlimited coinage of both
and liver coin along with the growing needs
of Il III ghty people All our ncedful customs
revenue might be collected by strictly rev
cnuc duties upon few store articles instead
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more than four thousand articles. The mere
machinery of administration by its own mass
and cOmplcXity breaks down and brushes
out the enterprise t assumes to protect.
better currency than elsewhere exists might
be had bv few laws of repeating and EN-
towering Legislation followed by two or three
years of capable administratU on of the treas
ury and joined with the present sagacious
conduct of our foreign policy by the State
Department.
Under the opcrat on of the currency laws
and tariff laws now III force, wh CHI you and
the Forty ninth Congress were elected by the
people to rereal and reform, the burdened
industries of our country arc plunging heav
lily along u miry road toward fOresecn dam
ger. We talk of arbitrating our respective
share of disaster, instead of knocking of
our selfimposcd letters and releasing Il gen.
eral prosperity. This is not, in my deliber
ate Judgment, a me when the President can
delay to provide or afford to dispense with
an actual, as well as 81 titular. head OF
the Treasury Department The fiscal
to a debt SO large, taxation so pervaSive. and
a currency which is universal can not ia
of being chief factor in national and indi-
v:dual well-bcing. Your own duty to hich
you have addressed yourself with such clear
and unfiinching purposes. the duty of Con-
gress in the premises, and the laws which
may yet be enacted for the guidance of the
Treasury Department will require that you
be assisted in their administration by an Off
Ger capable of fall efficiency and unwearied
circumspectiOn.
Do lnci tot
TO accept my temporary stability as a sum-
mons to stand aside and make way tor one
Immediately capable of fulfilling every re-
gu rement Of the public service Very re-
To the President.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
To this the President replied as follows:
MY Dear Mr.. Manning: j have rece. we'd
your letter in which your resignation is ten
dered as Secretary OF the Treasury. The
sentiments therein contained are entirely i'm
keeping with the devotion to public duty and
the loyalty to the interests of the Govern
ment which have characterized your rela-
tions to the present administration l am
not surpr sed. though much impressed, with
the concern which you evince for the cOrrec
ton Of the abuses and the Inauguration of
the reforms to which in your letter you
aIude and which have been so often top cs
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 gu ckened in the sense
of responsibility and led to more harmonious
action upon the important questions with
which you have had TO deal.
In considering your proposed resignation.
] should be strongly inclined by my personal
regard and friendship and by the state Of
your services to the country to beg you to at
once and entirely abandon your inclination
to relinQuish your part of an arduous duty.
But am convinced that should not do this,
and that in all suggest and ask | should
have much at heart your welfare and safety.
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 post pone for
while any insistancc upon the acceptance of
your resignation. and that your final con-
clusiOn thereon may be delayed until the eff
fects Of continued freedom from official care
upon your condition may be better tested. l
therefore earnestly request you to accept a
leave of absence until the first day of OctO-
Der next, when. if you desire it, the quest on
of your resignation may be resumed with.
perhaps, better means of judging all the facts
and probabilities which should be considered
in its determination.
Hoping that you will consent to this sug-
progress toward restorat on to health may
am faithfully your friend.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary Of lc Treas
Gry. -
Secretary Manning has accepted the
Presidents suggestion, and will allow his
resignation to lie over until his leave of alb
sence 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 Washington
this afternoon for Hot Springs, Va.
The President and His Bride.
WASHINGTON. June 5.-AbOut a thou