The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
MANNING RESIGNS.

| noon. The Secretary SAYS his reasons for
this decision are both public and personal
inc iuii recovery Of his health, and 1t was
nos oentting that q department OF govern
ment 70 difficult and important Is the
treasury portfolio should be administered
oy convalescent The President i'm 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 the effects of continued rest.
and freedom from official cares upon his
condition might be tested. Mr.. Manning's
letter is rs follows:
decided to place i'm your hands my Iesigna-
ton 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 recovery Of my
health has permitted me to reflect upon the
demands OF the public service to which had
givon perhaps too freely all my strength, and
upon the conditions of resumng my iabors
| at your side, have not for a moment ques-
toned 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 prudent
regimen thereafter.
Compliance with this advice would not be.
practicable were to resume now the general
direction OF the Treasury Department. even
IL Rbatng something of the energy which il
seemed ncedful to cxpend in the first year Of
my work. Supervision at a distance would
be more hindrance than help to the act
iEg Secretary. But il is not befitting that q
department Government
and 50 important should he administered by
| cOnvalescent, stud OF parry;ng its.
daily exHctiOns, nor that the watchfui con-
troll of its enormous influence or the direction
OF its fiscal policies. even under your wise
Iced. should he attempted by any one con-
cerned about hSsoandi no his strength The
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 tariff laws are a. needless,
Cypress on instead Of an easy burden. Our
currency 10 chaos into which We pour from
forced purchases of one of the precious,
| metals, u mechanical increment under a
coinage law SO i'll Judged and untimely that
il binders the opening OF our mints to tho
natural and unlimited coinage of both
metals and the free expansion of our gold
and g LIVER coin along with the growing needs
of u mighty people. All our needful customs.
revenue might be collected by strictly rev.
enue duties upon few store articles instead
of by extravagant or prOhbitOry 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 It assumes to protect. A
better currency than elsewhere exists might.
be had bv u few laws of repeating and en-
pOwering 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 tine operation Of the currency laws
and turif laws now in force, VIII ch You and
people to zeal and reform. the burdened
industries of our country arc plunging heav-
lily along q miry road toward fOrcseen dan
ger. We talk of arbtrating our respective
share OF disaster. instead of knocking on
our self-impOsed letters and releasing gen.
eral prosperity. This is not. in my delber-
delay to provide or afford to dispense with
nm actual. as well as titular. head of
the Treasury Department. The fiscal
policy of the Federal Government in respect
to a debt SO large, taxation so pervasve and
u currency which is universal. can not fail
of being a chief factor in national and indi-
vidual well-beIng. Your own duty to which
you have addressed yourself with such clear
and unflinching purposes. the duty of Con-
Rress in the prem ses, and the laws which
may yet be enacted for the guidance of the
Treasury Department will require that you
be assisted in their adm nistratiOn by an Off
Ger capable of full efficiency and unweared
circumspection.
Permit me, therefore. without hesitation.
TO accept my temporary disability as a sum-
mons to stand aside and make way for one
Immediately capable of fulfilling every re-
au,rement of the public service. Very re-
spectfuily yours, DANIEL MANNING.
To the PT6sids,lt.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
To this the President replied as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June
my Dear Mr.. Manning: j have rece we'd
your letter in which your resignation 10 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-
tiOns to the present administration. i 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
allude and which have been 50 often TOPICS
Of our anxious consultations have hoped
that the day was at hand when the party to
which we belong, 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 important questions with.
which you have had TO deal.
In considering your proposed resignation
i should be strongly inclined by my personal
regard and friendship and by the state OF
once and entirely abandon your inclination.
to relinQush your part OF an arduous duty.
But am convinced that should not do this
and that in all suggest and ask l should
have much at heart your welfare and safety.
You have placed your resignation in my
hands. My responsibility here begins. and 1
know that the Iespons,S,ty vii WI be ,e met land and
answered when ask you to post pone for q
while any INSTANCE upon the acceptance OF
your resienation. and that your nnai con-
fects OF continued freedom from Official caro-
upon your condition may be better tested. 1
therefore earnestly request you to accept .
leave of absence until the drst day Of OctO-
Der next, when. il 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 determi nation.
Hoping that you will consent to this sug-
gestion and trusting that your encouraging
progress toward restoration to health may
continue l am faithfully your friend o.
Hon. Daniel Manning. Secretary Of tie Treas
UNI.
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 Fairchild has been requested to con-
tinue to act as Secretary until that time.
and has consented to do so. Secretary and
Mrs. Manning, accompanied BY Mr.. Joseph
w. Miller, Commissioner OF Internal Reve-
0u0, anu MIS- -UiIcI Will IeBNc " dSuuiSIOu
this afternoon for Hot Springs. Va.
The President and His Bride.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-About . thou
sand circulars announcing the Presidents
marriage were sent out from the White
House yesterday by mail, messengers and
otherwise. They are exceedingly simple
plainly engraved in heavy lines ON full
sheets Of fine note paper. These an
were sent to the members