Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-05
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
MIR. MANNING RESIGNS
But Yields to the Presi-
dent
AND WILL TAKE A VACATION
The Yale Student Reed Was
Murdered.
A FIERCE FIGHT AT BELFAST
Orange and Green in
Deadly Battle.
A FIERCE FIGHT AT BELFAST
SECRETARY MANNING RI RESIGNS,

Seer ETARY MANNING m ESIGNS.
He Thinks the Responsibilities of the
Office Too Great for a Man in HI
Health-The President Asks Him to
| Delay the Insistance of Its Accep-
tance and Grants Him a Four
Months Leavo of Absence.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The following cor
| respondence explains itself:
WASHINGTON, May Goth, 1886.
My Dear Sir-I have decided to place in your
hands my resignation Of the office which you did
ago. My reasons for this decision both public
sas sasi m ME 70 fc %
mands of the public service to which 1 had given
an at and upon sd sf
have not for moment questioned hat must be my
to OF a daRdT
period of rest, especially during the hot months,
prudens regimen thereafter eaS companee Wits
this advice would not be practicable were I to re-
partment even if abating something of the energy
o 9 at the a f
more of hindrance than help to the acting sec
the government SO difficult and SO important should
be administered by convalescent studious of par
ryng its daily exactions, that the watchfu CON
troll of its enormous influence the direction of its
fiscal policies even under your wise lead should be
attempted by anyone concerned about outstanding |
which you have maintained, and which have been |
latiye branch reforms necessary to our safety
binding in honor, obligatory in the traditions of
statute book. Our present tariff laws are |
needless oppression instead Of an easy /
burden Our currency is chaos into which we /
pour from forced purchases of one of the precious
metals mechanical increment under a coinage |
law SO illjudged and untimely that it hinders the
opening Of our mints 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 mighty people Al our needful customs
ties upon few articles instead of by extrava-
giant or prohibitory duties upon more than
four thousand articles. The mere machinery
plexity breaks down and brushes out the |
enterprise it assumes to protect. A
ton followed by two or three years of capable Ad
ministration of the treasury and Joined with the
the State department. Under the operation of cur
rency laws and tariff laws now in force, which you
and the Forty ninth Congress were
snd REFORM the the Ba2Rasned ndasRs sa
p our country are pungng heavily a9Ps or
pecve sha Of disaster Instead os of knocSing of
BUR imposed letters and releasing general pros
This 10 -s., my deliberate Judgment, a time |
when the President can delay to provide afford
o dispense with an actual as well titular head
If the Treasury department. The fiscal depart |
nent of the government in respect to a debt so
arge taxation SO pervasiye and a currency which
universal, cannot fail of being chief factor in
lationai and individual well being Your own duty
Q which you have addressed yourself with such
lear and unfinching purpose, the duty of Congress
nacted for the guidance of the Treasury depart
nent will require that you be assisted
q their administration by an officer capa.
Permit me. therefore, to accept
ny temporary disability summons to stand
side and make way foI one immediately capable
f fulfilling every requirement OF the public service.
Very respectfully yours,
DANIEL MANNING.