The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-06-11

form, the burdened industries of our
country are plunging heavily along q
miry road toward foreseen danger.
We talk of arbitrating our respective
share of disaster, instead of knocking
off our self-imposed fetters and releas-
ing general prosperity.
This is not, in my deliberate judg-
ment, time when the President can
delay to provide, or afford to dispense
with, an actual as well as titular head
of the Treasury Department.
The fiscal policy of the Federal
Government in respect to a debt 20
large, taxation so pervasive and q cur
rency which is universal, cannot fail of
being a chief factor in national and
individual well being. Your own duty
to which you have addressed yourself
with such clear and unflnching pur-
pose, the duty of Congress in the prem
ises and the laws which may yet be
enacted for the guidance of the Treas
ury Department, will require that you
be assisted in their administration by
an officer capable of full efficiency and
unwearied circumspection.
Permit me, therefore, without hest.
tation, to accept my temporary disa-
bility as summons to stand aside and
make way for one Immediately capable
of fulfilling every requirement of the
public service. Very respectfully
yours, DANIEL MANNING.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
To this letter the President, under
date of June /, replied as follows;
My DEAR Mr.. MANNING: | 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 govern
ment which have characterized your
relations to the present administration.
am not surprised, though much i'm
pressed, 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 at
hand when the party to which we be-
long, influenced largely by faith and
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 i'm
portant questions with which you have
had to deal.
In considering your proposed resig-
nation l 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 arduous duty,
but am convinced that should not
do this, and that in all l suggest and
ask should have much at heart your
welfare and safety.
You have placed your resignation in
my hands. My responsibility here be-
gins and l know that the responsibility
will be met and the wishes of the peo-
| Pile of the land fully answered when |
ask you to postpone for awhile any
instance 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 tested. l therefore
earnestly request you to accept leave
of absence until the first day of Oct
ober next, when if you desire it, the
question of your resignation may be
resumed with, perhaps, better means
of judging all the facts and probabili.
ties which should be considered in its
determination.
Hoping that you will consent to this
suggestion, and trusting that your en-
couraging progress toward restoration
to health may continue, l am, faith
fully your friend,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
| Secretary Manning has accepted the
Presidents suggestion and will allow
his resignation to lie over until hi
leave of absence shall have expired
Assistant Secretary Fairchild has beer
requested to continue to act as Secre
tary until that time and has consented
to do 80.