Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-05
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE CHINESE INDEMNITY BILL
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
CIeveIand's Cards-Sparks' Circu-
Iar-Democratic Congress
sional Committee.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE nRoonD.uNloN.l


sional Committee.
Resignation of Secretary Manning.
WASHINGTON. June 4th.-The following
self-explanatory correspondence is made
public this evening
WASHINGTON %. C.) May 20, 1856.
Ny DEAR SIR | have decided to place in
your hands my resignation of the Office which
you did me the honor toask me to accept fifteen
months ago. My reasons for this decision are
borh public and personal. Since the partial re-
covery of my health has permitted me to reflect
upon the demands of the public sery-
ice, to which ! had given, perhaps
condition of resuming my labors at your
side, have not for moment questioned 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 a prudent regimen thereafter.
A compliance with this advice would not be
practicable were to resume now the general
direction of the Treasury Department, even II
abating something of the energy which 1t
seemed needful TO eXpend in the first year OF
my work: Supervision at a distance would De
more hindranee than help to the acting Sec
retary. But it is not befitting that department
of the Government so difficult and so important
should be administered by eonvalescent,
studious of parrying its daily exactions Nor
that watchfil control of its enormous influence.
or the direction of its fiscal policies,
even under your wise lead, should be
attempted by any one concerned about nus,
banding his strength. The reforms in our hscal
policy which you have maintained, and which
have been framed and commented TO the WIS
dom of the legislative branch, are reforms nee
essary to our safety. binding III honor, oDiiga-
fOrHr int flra tra1i nf hn DamnHrApV-
down with promises in our statute book. our
present tariff laws are needless oppression, in
stead OF an easy burden. Our currency Is chaos,
nto which we pour from forced purchases OF
one of the precious metals mechanical 1ncre-
ment under coinage laws so ill-judged and un-
timely that it hinders the opening of our MINIS
to the natural and unlimited coinage OF both
metals, and the free expansion OF our gold
and silver coin along with the growing needs of
a mighty people. All our needful customs
revenue might be collected by strictly revenue
duties upon few score articles instead OF by
extravagant or prohibitory duties upon more
than four thousand articles. The mere machln-
cry of the administration by its own mass and
complexity. breaks down and erushes out the
enterprise it assumes to protect. A better
currency than elsewhere exists might be had by
a few lines of repeating and empowering legls.
| lation, followed by two or three years OF
capable administration of the treasury, and
| our foreign policy 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 burdened indus
tries of our country are plunglng heavily along
a miry road toward foreseen danger. We talk OF
arbitrating our respective share of the dis
aster. instead of knocking off our self-imposed
fetters and releasing the general prosperity.
| This is not, in my deliberate Judg-
| ment, time when the President
can delay to provide for, or afford to dispense
with, an actual as well as a titular head OF the
| Treasury Department The fiscal policy of the
| Federal Government in respect to department.
| so large taxation so pervasive, and currency
which is universal cannot fail OF being the
chief factor in the national and individual well
| being. Your duty. to which you have ad-
| dressed yourself with such clear and untlinch-
| ing purpose, the duty of Congress in the prem
| ises, and the laws which may yet be enacted for
| the guidance of the Treasury Department, will
require that you be assisted in their admnistra-
ton by an officer capable of full efficiency and
unwearied circumspection. Permit me, there
fore, without hesitation, to accept my tempo
| rary disability as summons TO stand aside and
make way for one Immediately capable OF full
| filling every requirement of the public service.
Very respectfully, yours,
To the President.
REPLY OF THE PRESIDENT
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, June /, 1886.
Ny 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 loyalty to the
interests OF the Government which have clar-
acterized your relations to the present admins
tration. / am not surprised, though much i'm
pressed, by the concern which you evince for a
correction 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 that the party to which we
belong, influenced largely by faith and conf
lar ~, Won md N tha
would be quickened in its sense OF respons 1bli-
| ity. 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 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 l should not do
| this and that in all suggest and ask should
I 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 while any insistance
upon the acceptance of your resignation, and
| that your final conclusion thereon may be de-
| lxyed until the effects of a continued rest and
| freedom from official care upon your, condition
may be better tested therefore earnestly re-
| quest you to accept leave of absence until the
| 1st day of october next, when If you desire 1t,
/ the question of your resignation may be re-
| sumed, with perhaps better means OF Judging
| all the facts and probabilities which should be
| considered in its determination. Hoping that
i you will consent to this suggestion and trusting
/ that your encouraging progress towards restor-
alton to health may continue, am, faithfully
| your friend, GROVER CLEVELAND.
Hon. Daniel Manning Secretary of the
Treasury.
| Secretary Manning has accepted the Pres
| ident's suggestion, and will allow his res
| ignation to lie over until his leave OF
( absence shall have expired. Assistant Sec
retary Fairchild has been requested to act
as Secretary until that time, and has con-
sented to do SO. Secretary and Mrs. Man
ming, accompanied by Joseph w. Miller
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and
| Mrs. Miller. will leave Washington to-
morrow afternoon for Hot Spriugs, Va.
United States Senate.
| WASHINGTON, June 4th.-On motion OF
Edmunds, the Chinese indemnity bill was
taken up, but Informally laid aside at the
request of Allison, to permit the considera-
ton of the consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bill.
| Att o'clock the matter went over, and
| the Chinese indemnity bill was again
placed before the Senate
After debate, the bill was brought 10 a
vote and passed-yeas 80, nays 10.
|
| Messrs. Beck, Berry Cockrell, Coke, Eus-
tbs, George, Harris, Maxey, Mitchell OF
| Oregon and Vest.
| The bill authorizes the President to as
| certain the actual losses sustained by the
Cinnamon by the riot at Rock Springs,
Wyoming, in September, 1885, and TO pay
such losses. The amount appropriated by
| the bill for that purpose is s150,000.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the consular and diplomatic appropria-
ton bill.
On reaching the appropriation of s2,270
as the American contribution to the main
tenance of the International Bureau of
Weights and Measures, Gonger attacked the
! item. He ridicuied the idea of change
| in our last established system of weights
! and measures, and saw no use in contrib
| uting to the International Bureau.
After an explanation of the item by
Messrs. Evarts and Allison, Conger moved
TO strike it out
This motion was rejected-yeas / Con
ger), nays AZ. tGreat laughter.]
The Senate, without finishing the bill,
adjourned till tomorrow
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, June 4th.-The Speaker
laid before the House communication
from the Secretary of War recommending
that 5000 of the amount appropriated by
the Act of March 2 1889 for the armament