The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-07
SECRETARY MANNING.
Rcsigning His Office-Substitutins
a Leave of Absence.

ltcS1gTinT Ills OihCo- -ouoeeh1oeAA6
a Leave of Absence.
In letter just made public, but written
May 2lth to the President, Secretary Man
min. offered his resignation as Secretary OF
the Treasury. The Secretary says that his
reasons for .resigning are both public ana
personal The full recovery of his health,
he says, is pronounced an affair OF
weeks, and a longer period of rest
has been advised. compliance with this
advice.n he says, "would not be practicable
were l to assume now the general direction
of the Treasury Department, even if abatlng
something OF the energy which 1t seemed
HsSSf"l Hesi OF to my ezp'RS Work supsryison 1s
at distance would be more hindrance
than help to the acting Secretary:
But it is MT befitting that department of
the Government so difficult and SO important
should b, administered by a convalescent
studious of parrying its daily exactlons, nor
that the watchful control of its enormous In
fiuen,e or the direction of its fiscal policies.
even under your wise lead, should be- at
tamptel by any one concerned about hus-
banding his streng h."
Continuing, the secretary refers to various
fiscal and other reforms contemplated in the
Treasury Department, and says that this IS
not the time "wken the President can delay
to provide or afford to dispense with an ac-
tual as well as titular head of the Treasury
Department" He theref ore asks the Presl-
dent to appoint secretary capable of full
efficiency and unwearied circumspection.
The Presidents reply to Secretary Man.
ning's letter is as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, June l, 1886.
MY DEAR Mr.. MANNING-I have received
your letter in which your resignation is ten
dered as Secretary of the Treasury.
The sentiments therein contained are en-
tirely in keeping with the devotion to public
duty and the loyalty to the interests of the
government which have characterized your
relation to the present administration. l
am not surprised, though much impressed,
by the concern which you evince for the cor
rection of the abuses and the inauguration of
the reforms to which in your letter you al
lude, and which have been so often topics of
our anxious consultations.
| have hoped that the day was at hand
when the party to which we belong, inhu-
enced largely by faith and confidence in you
and in the wisdom of your views, would be
quicSened in the sense of responsibility and
led to more harmonious action upon the inn
portant 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 value of
Your services to the country, to beg you to
at on and entirely abandon yourinclination
to relinquish Your part of arduouS duty, but
I am convinced that I should not do this, and
that in all suggest and ask should have
much at heart in your welfare and safety.
You have pla"el your resignation in my
han Is Ny responsibility here begins; and
I know that the responsibility will be met,
and the wishes of the people of the land fully
answered, when l ask you to postpone for
while any insistence upon the acceptance of
conclusion thereon may be delayed
until the effects of continued rest
and free ION from official care upon
your condition may be better tested. |
therefore earnestly request you to accept O
leave of absence until the first day of Octo-
her next, when, if you desire it, the question
of your res. .guation may lie 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-
gest:on, and trusting that your encouraging
progress toward restoration to health may
continue, am faithfully, your friend,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the
Treasury.
Secretary Manning has accepted the Presi-
dents suggestion and will allow his resigna-
tion to lay over until his leave of absence
shall have expired. Assistant Secretary
Fairchild has been requested to continue to
act as Secretary until that time and has con-
sented to do so.
Secretary and Mrs Manning, accompanied
by MI Joseph w. Miller, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, and Mrs Miller, have gone
to Hot Springs,Na-