The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-10
MANNING RESIGNS.


ance.
| WASHINGTON, June 5.-Secretary Man
ning's letter of resignation, dated May ~,
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 q convalescsuL The President in reply
earnestly requested the Secretary to accept
leave of absence until October next and
asked that the final conclusion upon the &C
ceptance of his resignation might be de-
tanned until tbs 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: haves
decided to place in your hands nay Iesigna-
ton of the office which you did me the honor
to ask me to sccept 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
Z
given perhaps too freely ali my strength. and
upon the conditions of resuming my iabors
at your side, have not for moment ques-
toned what must be my present duty. The
full recovery OF my heSlth is pronounced TO
be an affair of weeks, and a longer period of
rest, especially during the hot months, is
prescribed, or at least advised As prudent
| regimen thereafter.
Compliance with this advice would not no
practicable were to resume now the general
direction of the Treasury Department. even
n abstiug something OF the energy which IL
| seemed needful TO expend in thu hrst year OF
my work. Supervision at a distance would
be more hlndrance than help to the act
ing Secretary. But il ia not beritting that a
| department OF the Government so difficult
and 80 important should be administered by
eonrslescent. stud Gus OF parry ng its
daily exEctions. nor that the watchful con-
| trol of its enormous influence or the direction
I OF its fiscal policies, even under your wiSS
! lead. should be attempted by any one con-
cerned about outstanding his strength. The
reforms IN our fiscal policy which you have
maintained, 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 tarn laws are a: needless
| oppression instead OF an easy burden. Our
| currency is a chaos into which we pour from
forced purchases of one of the precious
| metals, mechanical increment under q
! coinage law so i'll judged and untimely that
/ il hinders the opening OF our mints to the
natural and unlimited coinage Of both
metals and the free expansion OF our gold
and liver coin along with the growing needs
/ of 4 m ghty people All our needful customs
| revenue might be collected by strictly rev.
| euue duties upon \ few store articles instead
| of by extravagant or prOhibitOry duties upon
more than four thousand articles. The mere
machinery of administration by its own mass
| and cOmpleXitY breaks down and brushes.
! out the enterprise t assumes to protect. A
/ better currency than elsewhere exists might
/ be had bv a few laws OF repeating and en-
I pOwerng legislation followed by two or three
| years of capable administration OF the treas
| ury and joined with the present SagaciOus
conduct of our foreign policy by the State
Department.
Under the operation of the currency laws
and tariff laws now IN force, VIII ch you and
| the Forty ninth Congress were elected by the
people to req cal and reform, the burdened
industries of our country are plUnging heav-
lily along niry road toward fOreseen dan
ger. We talk of arbitrating our respective
share of disaster. instead of knocking Off
our sclf-impOsed letters and releasing a gen.
eral prosperity. This is not. in my dcliber-
ate Judgment, tme when the President can
delay TO provide or AFFORD to dispense with
actual. well titular. head of
the Treasury Department The fiscal
policy of the Federal Government IN respect
TO debt so large, taxation so pervasive. and
a currency which rs universal. can t fail
of being n chief factor in national al ind-.
vidual well-bcmg. Your own duty to which
you have addressed yourself with such clear
and uniiinching 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 OIL
Ger capable of full efficiency and unweared
circumsp ecton.
Permit me- therefore without hesitation.
TO accept my temporary disability as a sum-
mons To stand aside and make way tor one
Immediately capable of fulfilling every re-
QuIrement of the public service. Very re-
spectfuly yours, DANIEL MANNING.
To the President.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
To this the President replied as follows
EXECUTIVE MANSION. WASHI,.fTON, June
my Dear Mr.. Manning: ] have rece we'd
your letter in which your resignation is ten
dered 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 rela--
tons to the present administered on l am
not surprised. 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
ahude and which have been so often TOPICS
Of our anxious consultations. | have hoped
that the day was at hand whom the party to
which we belong, influenced largely by faith
and confidence in you and m the risdom of
your views. would be quickened In the sense
of responsibility and led ia more harmonious
action upon the important questions with.
which you have had 10 deal.
In considering your proposed resignation
II
regard and friendship and by the state OF
your services to the country to bog 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 suggest and ask / should.
have much at heart your welfare and safety.
Yod have placed your resignation In my
hands. My responsibility here begins. and
know that the responsibility will be met and
answered wheB ask you to postpone for u
while any insistance upon the acceptance of
your resignation. and that your final con-
clusiOn thereon may be delayed until the ef-
feets of continued freedom from offcia care
upon your condition may be better tested
therefore earnestly request you To accept q
leave OF absence until the first day of OctO-
Der next, when. if you desire Il, the question
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-
gestion and trusting that your encouraging
progress toward restoration to health may
an faithfully your friend,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary Of t1e Treas
uTy-
Secretary Manning has accepted the
Presidents suggestion, and will allow his
to lie over until his leave Of alb
sence shall have expired. Assistant Secre--
tary FairchiId has been requested TO con-
tinue to act as Secretary until that time.-
and has consented 10 do 50. Secretary and
Mrs. Manning, accompanied by Mr.. Joseph
W. Miller. Commissioner OF Internal Reve-
nue., and Mrs. Miller will leays Washington.
his afternoon for Hot Springs, Va
The President and His Bride
WASHINGTON, June 5.-About q thou
'and circulars announcing the Presidents
marriage were sent out from the White
House yesterday by mail, messengers and
otherwise. They are exceedingly simple,