The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-06-12
MINING RESIGNS,
Bat His Resignation rs not Accepted.
WAsHIsGTox, June 4.-The follow
ing self-explanatory correspondence
is made public this evening:
"WAsBINoToN, ID. c.,
MAY % 1886


"WAsBISGToN, ID. c..
May 20, 1886
my DEAR SIR-I 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 per-
sonal. Since the partial recovery of
my health has permitted me to re-
feet upon the demands of the public
service, to which 1 had given, per-
haps too freely, all my strength, and
upon the conditions of resuming my
labors at your side, / have not for a
moment questioned 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, especial
ly during the hot months. is pre-
scribed, or at least advised as pru-
dent regimen hereafter.
Compliance with this advice
would not be practicable were / to
resume now the general direction of
the Treasury Department. even if
abating something of the energy
which it seemed needful to expend
in the first year of my work. Super
vision at distance would be more a
hindrance than help to the acting
Secretary.
But it is not befitting that de-
partment of the Government, so diff
ficult and SO important, should be
administered by convalescent, stu
dious Of PAIRING its 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
anyone concerned about outstanding
his strength.
"The reforms in our fiscal policy
which you have maintained, and
which have been framed and COM
mended to the wisdom of the legisla-
tive branch, are reforms necessary
to our safety, binding in honor, OBJ
ligatory in the traditions of the
Democracy, set down with promises
in our statute book.
"Our present tariff 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 pre-
cious metals, a mechanical inere-
ment, under'a coinage law so i'll
judged and untimely that it binders
the opening of our minis to the nat
ural and unlimited coinage of both
metals, and the free expansion of
our gold and silver coin along with
the growing needs of mighty peo-
pie.
"All our needful custom revenues
might be collected by strictly reve-
nue. duties upon Il few score articles
instead of by extravigant or prohib-
itory duties upon more than four
thousand articles The mere ma
chinery of administration, by its own
mass and complexity, breaks down
and brushes out the enterprise it as
sumes to protect.
IA better currency than elsewhere
exists might be had by a few lines
of repeating and empowering legis-
lation, followed by two or three years
Of capable administration of the
Treasury, and joined with the pres
ent sagacious conduct of our for
eign policy by the State Depart
ment.
Under the operation of currency
laws and tariff laws now in force,
which you and the forty ninth Con
gress were elected by the people to
repeal and reform, the burdened in
dustries of our country are plunging
heavily along a. miry road toward
fOreseen dangers. We talk of arbi-
tratirg our respective share of disas.
aster instead of knocking off our
self-imposed letters and releasing
general prosperity.
This is not, in my deliberate judg-
ment, time when the President can
delay to provide, or afford to dis
pense with, an actual as well as a
titular head of the Treasury Depart
ment.
''The fiscal policy of the Federal
Government in respect to debt SO
large, taxation SO pervasive and
currency which is universal, cannot
fail of being chief factor in nation
al and individual well being. Your
own duty, to which you have adj
dressed yourself with such clear and
unfiinching purpose, the duty of
Congress in the premises, and the
laws which may yet be enacted for
the guidance of the Treasury De-
partment, will require that you be
assisted in their administration by
an officer capable of full efficiency
and unwearied circumspection.
"Permit me, therefore, without
hesitation to accept my temporary
disability as summons to stand
aside and make way for one immedi-
ately capable of fulfilling every re-
quirement of the public service.
Very respectfully yours,
DANIEL MANNING.
ITO the President
THE PRESIDENT SUGGESTS A LEAVE OF
ABSENCE
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, June l, 1861
My Dear Mr.. Manning:-I have
received your letter in which your
resignation is rendered 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 Government which have char
acterized your relations to the pres
ent administration. l am not sur
prised, 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 anx-
ious consultations.
Il have hoped that the day was at
Il l. L