The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-11
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HE WILL REMAIN.


as Secretary of the Treasury-In Health
Assigned as the Reason-The President
Induces Him to Withdraw His Decision
and Take a Vacation of Four Months.
WASHINGTON. June 5.-Secretary and
Mrs. Manning accompanied BY Mr.. Joseph
w. Miller, Commissioner OF Internal Rev.
snue, and Mrs. Miller, viii leave Washing
Ton this afternoon for Hot Springs, Va.
The rumor that the Secretary had placed
his resignation in the hands of the Presi-
dent was verified yesterday and the CORE
spondence made public. Secretary Man
ning's letter is as follows:
WASHINGTON. May 2O.-Ny Dssr Sir:
have decided TO place in your hands my
resignation of the Office which you did me
the honor to ask me to accept fifteen
months ago.
My reasons for this decision are both
public and personal. Since the partial re-
covery of my health has permitted me to
reflect upon the demands of the public
service, to which had given, perhaps too
freely, all my strength, and upon the con-
ditions of resuming my labors at your side
must be my present duty.
sit is not befitting that a depart
ment of the Government SO difficult and so
important should be administered by a
convalescent studious of parrying It's daily
exactions, nor that the watchful control of
its enormous influence or the direction Of
its fiscal policies, even under your wise
lead, should be attempted by any one con-
cerned about outstanding his strength.
1.-THE reforms in our fiscal policy which
you have maintained and which have been
framed and comm ended to the wisdom of
the legislative bran CHI are reforms neces-
sary to-our safety, binding in honor, oblig.
atory in the traditions of the Democracy,
set down with promises in cur statute
book. Our tariff laws are needless oppresy
sion instead of an easy burden. Our cur
rency is a chaos, into which we pour from
forced purchases of one of the precious
metals a mechanical increment, under a
coinage law SO ill-judged and untimely that
it hinders the opening of our minis to the
natural AMI 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
a few score articles, instead of by extrava-
CANT or prohibitory duties upon more than
1900 articles The mere machinery of adj
ministration, by its own mass end conf
pleXity, breaks down and brushes out the
enterprise it assumes to project A better
currency than elsewhere exists might be
had by few lines of repeating and en-
powering legislation. followed by two or
three years of capable administration of
the Treasury, and joined with the present
sagacious conduct of our foreign policy by
the State Department..
s'Under the operation of currency laws
and tariff laws now in force, which you
and the Forty-ninth Congress were elected
by the people to repeal and reform, the
burdened Industries of our country are
plunging heavily along miry road toward
foreseen dangers. We talk of arbitrating
our respective share of disaster instead of
knocking off our self-imposed letters and
releasing general prosperity. This is not
in my deliberate judgment, time when
the President can delay to provide or af-
ford to dispense with an actual as well as
titular head of the Treasury Department.
1.-THE fiscal policy of the Federal Govern
ment in respect to debt so large, taxation
SO pervasive, and currency which is uni
versal, can not fail of being a chief factor
in National and Individual weil-being
Your own duty, to which you have
addressed yourself with such clear
and unfinching purpose, the duty
Of Congress in the premises, and
for the guidance of the Treasury Depart
ment will require that you be assisted in
their administration by an officer capable
OF full efficiency and unwearied circum-
spection.
Permit me, therefore, without hesita-
ton, to accept my temporary disability as
for one immediately, capable of fulfilling
every requirement of the public service.
'Very respectfully yours,
''To the President
The Presidents reply is as follows
!" EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
June /, 1SS6.-Iny Dear Nr. Mdnai,aq: l
have received your letter in which your
resignation is rendered as Secretary of the
Treasury.
C The sentiments therein contained are
entirely in keeping with the devotion to
public duty and the loyalty to the interests
of the Government which have character
lied your relations to the present Admins
tTatlon. | am not surprised though much
impressed, 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 con-
situations.
81 have hoped that the day was at hand
when the party to which we belong, in
fluenced largely by faith and confidence in
you and in the wisdom of your views,
would be qulckened in the sense of respon-
sibility and led to more harmonious action
upon the important questions with which
you have to deal.
I'm considering your proposed resigna-
ton 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
ardous duty. But | am convinced that I
should not do this, and that in all | suggest
and ask | should 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 l ask you to
postpone for while any insistance upon
the acceptance of your resignation, and
that your final conclusion thereon may
be delayed until the effects of con-
tinued 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
1st day of October next, when, if you de-
sire it, the question of your resignation
may be resumed with, perhaps, better
means of judging all the facts and prob
abilities which should be considered in it's
determination.
Hoping that you will consent TO this
suggestion, and trusting that your encour-
aged progress toward restoration to health
may continue, lam, faithfully, your friend,
sGROvER CLEVELAND.
'Hon Daniel Manning, Secretary of the
Treasury"
Secretary Manning has accepted the
Presidents suggestion, and will allow his
resignation TO lie 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 consented tn dn
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