Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
HE WILL REMAIN.

| WASHINGTON, Juno 5.-Secretary ana
! Mrs. Manning, accompanied by Mr.. Joseph
! w. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Rev.
| enue, and Mrs. Miller, will 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.
| spondcnce made public. Secretary Man
ning's letter is as follows:
"WAsn1SGToN, May 2O.-My Dear Sir:
[ nave 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 l had given, perhaps toe
freely, all my strength, and upon the con-
ditions of resuming my labors at your side
lhave not for a moment questioned what
must be my present duty.
ut is not befitting that a depart
ment of the Government SO difficult and SO
important should be administered by a
convalescent studious of parrying its daily
exactions, nor hat the watchful control IF
its enormous influence or the direction of
its fiscal policies. ever under your wise
lead, should be attempted by any one con-
| cerned about Outstanding his strength.
''The reforms in our fiscal policy which
you ave maintained and which have been
framed and comm ended to the wisdom of
the legislative branch are reforms neces.
atory in the traditions of the Democracy,
set down with promises in Our statute
book. Our tariff laws are a needless oppres-
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 q mechanical increment, under a
coinage law SO ill-judged and untimely that
it hinders the opening of our mints to the
natural and unlimited coinage of both
metals aud the fr.e expansion Of our gold
! needs of a mighty people.
"A our nsedful customs revenue might
be collected by strictly revenue duties upon
q few score articles, instead of by extrava-
1000 articles. The mere machinery of adj
minist!ation, by its own mass and COM
plexity. breaks owl and brushes out the
enterprise it assumes to protect A better
| currency than elsewhere exists might be
had by a few lines of repeating and en-
three years of capable administration of
the Treasury, and joined with the present
%sagacious conduct of our foreign policy by
the State Department.
"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 a miry road toward
foreseen dangers. We talk Of arbitrating
our respective share of disaster instead Of
knocking off our ~self-imposed letters and
releasing a general prosperity. This is not,
in my deliberate judgment, a time when
the President can delay to provide or Of
a titular head of the Treasury Department.
'The fiscal policy of the Federal Govern
ment i'll respect to adebt SO large, taxation
SO pervasive, and a currency which is uni
versal, can not fail of being a chief factor
in National and individual woil-being.
addressed yourself with such clear
Of Congress in the premises, and
f fos th bsw guidance dance Of may tfo fes be f psp g
ment, will require that you be assisted in
their administration by an officer capable
of full efficiency and unwearied circum-
spection.
ton, to accept my temporary disability as
a to stand aside and make way
for one Immediately capable of fulfilling
every requirement of the public services.
Every respectfully
$40 the President"
The Presidents reply is as follows:
"EXEcUTIvE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
June l, 1SS6:-My Dear Mr.. Manning: l
have received your letter in which your
resignation is rendered as Secretary of the
Treasury.
entirely in keeping with the devotion to
public duty and the loyalty to tn: interests
of the Government which have character
lied your relations to the present Admins
tiation. l 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 nave
been SO often topics of our anxious con-
81 nave hoped that the day was at hand
when the party to which we belong, in
huenced largely by faith and confidence in
you and in the wisdom of our views,
would be qulckened in the sense of respon-
Slblllty and led to more harmonious action
upon the important questions with which
you have to deal. "
TN considering YOU proposed ~resigna-
ton Ishould be strongly inclined by nv
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 r%elinquish your part of
ardous duty. But I am convinced that I
should not do this, n that in all I 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 l know that the responsibility will be
met and the wishes of tho people of the
land fully answered when / ask you to
postpone for a while any insistance upon
the acceptance of your resignation, and
that yeur final conclusion thereon NAV
be delayed until the effects Of con
tinued rest and freedom from official
care upon our condition may be better
tested. l therefore earnestly request YOU
to accept a leave of absence until the
LIST 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 its
determination.
Hoping that you will consent to this
suggestion, and trusting that your encour-
aged progress toward restoration to health
may continue, lam, faithfully, yourfriend,
CLEVELAND.
Zion 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