St. Paul daily globe., 1886-08-10
A CABINET QUARREL.
The Veraeious New York Sun Processes
to Tell the Facts About Man
ning's Resignation.
The Step Alleged to Have Been De-
oided On After a Stormy
Consultation.
Delay Caused Only by the secre-
tary's Sudden and Severe
Illness.
probability that Collector Hedden
of New York Will Step Down
and Out.
InlportantIf True.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The New York
Sun prints two-coluumn article of inter-
est. touching the relations existing between
Secretary Manning and the president. 1t
gives the inside history of the appointment
of Collector Hedden at New York and the
intImation broadly conveyed by Manning
that he would rssign from the cabinet if he
was not appointed. Coming down to more
recent history. it says: 1t was six months
before the last straw came
THE FIGHT IN THE SENATE,
led by Edmunds, against the appointment,
began. Cleveland had proclaimed that no.
body could be put out except for cause or
offensive partisanship. When the changes
were made i'll the internal revenue collector
ship where Manning was responsible tor the
new appointments, the Republican senators
declared that if the old men were removed
for offensive partisanship, then new
ones, such as Chase, Trout and
Pillsbury, were quite as bad.
If the administration had removal tho old
men and put in the new, simply that it
might have its subordinate officers in ac-
cord with it on questions of party and
policy. nobody could object, but Cleveland
would not admit any such motives. He
reiterated his proclamation of ''cause or
offensive partisanship." The appointments
were hung up waiting confirmation. Man
nlng was very anxious to have his officers
confirmed. Senator Morrill, called and ex-
planned his position to Manning. Manning
replied that the dismissal of old men
LEFT NO STIGMA ON THEM.
1t simply meant thatit was impracticable
for Democratic administration to run
properly with Republican Office holders.
The men were all right, personally. Nor
rlll said that such an understanding was
satisfactory, and he could see no objection
to confirming them. A lot were
confirmed. In the afternoon of
March % there was meeting of the cab
| met, and Cleveland took Manning to task
for yielding too readily in his explanation
to Morrill,. Manning replied that he had
said nothing contrary to the policy of the
| administration, and that to his knowledge
good Republicans had been removed from
Office to make room for good Democrats.
He believed in this. Garland spoke up, at
tacking Manning. Manning despises and
hates Garland, and thinks he should get out
of the cabinet. Whitney said nothing one
way or the other. Lamar tried to smooth
over things. After Garland's outburst the
business OF the meeting was listlessly hur-
rled through, and Manning started for the
treasury department, as was supposed, to
write his resignation. Before writing 1t he
was
SEIZED WITH VERTIGO,
and fell in the treasury bathroom. He
was taken home dangerously sick. At the
time of the Albany appointments he told
two or three friends that he was disgusted
with the 'anti-Democratic policy of the ad-
mnlStratlOn, and that he would not Stay
long. AS soon as he was well enough. on
May 20, he wrote his resignation. In it
are couple of significant passages:
'This is not, in my deliberate Judgment q
! time when the president can delay to provide
or appear to dispense with an actual as we'll
as a titular head of the treasury DEPART
ment Permit me, without hesitation, to
accept my temporary disability as q sum-
mons to stand aside and make way for one
Immediately capable of fulfilling every re-
quirement of the public service
Cleveland at first implored Manning not
to insist on resignation. When Manning
told him he was decided he asked him to
modify it so as tostake furlough.
MANNING CONSENTED,
and the resignation, as published on June
4, provides for his retaining the secretary
ship until Oct. 1. Cleveland wanted the
delay that he might have time to reorgan-
ize his cabinet and provide a successor to
AIr. Manning. Mr.. Manning has practic-
ally withdrawn from politics now He will
stay out until 1888. According to his ply
sicians it will take him until that time to
recover his health. His illness is more the
hurt of crushed hopes than mere physical
ailment. He had been working hard and
straining every nerve for years, that his
party might be strengthened and succeed
Rebuff after rebuff showed how mistaken
he was The Suns Washington special
says:
COLLECTOR HEDDEN's RESIGNATION
has not been definitely announced but
there is an almost positive certainty that it
will be in a very few days. Gossip con-
meets several names, including Bissell,
Berry, Beattie and Trelvar, with the sue
cession. but this is nothing but mere rumor.
The ground given for the resignation of
AIr. Hedden is the difference in the policy
of civil service reform as carried on in the
custom house and the views held by the
authorities at Washington. The new col
lector will either be some business man
like those pushed forward last year-Sur-
veyor Beattie or Wilson S. Bissell. II
Beattie is nominated it will be because o.
Secretary Whitney's warm friendship for
him. Mr.. Hedden himself left Saratoga
where his family is, four days ago. and has
not been found since.