Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-06-10
MANNNGR RESIGNS.
The Resignation and the Presidents
Reply.

made public this evening: fF
| WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 20, 1885.
| Ny DEAR SR-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.
Ny 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 I had given,
perhaps too freely, all my strength,
and upon the conditions of resnming
my labors at your side, / have not for q
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 es-
pecially during the hot months is pre-
scribed, or at least advised as prudent.
Compliance with this advice would
not be practicable were / to resume
now the general direction of the Treas
ury Department., even If abating some-
thing of the energy which itseemed
needful to expend in the first year of
my work. Supervision at distance
would be more hindrance than help
to the acting secretary. But it Is not
befitting that q department of the gov
ernment, so difficult and so important,
should be administered by q GONZALES
cent. The reforms of our fiscal policy,
which you have maintained and which
have been framed and commended to
the wisdom of the legislative branch,
are reforms necessary to our safety,
binding In honor, obligatory in the ira
Il ditinno of tha narnoorooxy oud oof douyn
with provisions in our statute books.
Our present tariff laws are needless
oppression instead of any easy burdens.
Our currency is chaos into which we
pour from forced purchases one ssof the
precious metals, mechanical incre-
ment under coinage law so ill-judged
and untimely that it hinders the OPEN
ing of our mints to the natural and un-
limited coinage of both metals and
the free expansion of our gold and sill
yer coin along with the growing needs
of a mighty people.
All our needful customs revenue
might be collected by strictly revenue
duties upon few store articles instead
of by extravagant or prOhibitory duties
upon more than four thousand articles.
| The mere machinery of administration,
! by its own mass and complexity, breaks
down and crushes out the enterprise it
assumes to protect.
Under the operation of the currency
laws and tariff laws now in force, which
you and the Forty-ninth Congress were
elected by the people to repeal and re-
form, the burdened Industries of our
country are plunging heavily along a
miry road toward foreseen danger. We
talk of arbitrating our respective share
of disaster, instead of knocking off our
self-imposed fetters and releasing gen.
eral prosperity. This Is not in my de-
liberate Judgment time when the
President can delay to provide, or af-
ford to dispense with an actual as well
rs a titular head of the Treasury De-
partment. -'
The fiscal policy of the Federal gov
ernment In respect to debt SO large,
"a taxation and a currency which is uni
versal cannot fail of being chief fac
tor in national or individual well-belng.
Your own duty, to which you have ad-
dressed yourself with such clear and
unflinching purpose, the duty of Con-
gress in the premises and the laws
which may vet be enacted for the guild
ance or the Treasury department, will
require that you be assisted in their ad-
ministration by an officer. capable OF
full efficiency and unwearied circum-
spection.
| Permit me, therefore, without hesita-
tion to accept my temporary disability
las summons to stand aside and make
way for one ediately capable of full
filling every requirement of the public
service.
Very respectfully yours,
DANIEL MANNING.
To the President,
Cleveland's Reply.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 4
WASHINGTON, June l, 1886.
My Dear Mr.. Manning:
/ have received your letter, in which
your resignation is rendered as Secreta.
lry of the Treasury. The sentiments
therein contained are entirely in keep.
! ing with the devotion to public duty
and the loyalty to the interests of the
your relations to the present admins
tration. am not surprised, though
much impressed, by the concern whici
you evince for the correction of til.
abuses and the Inauguration of the re
forms to which in your letter you al
lude, and which have been so of
ten topics of mutual and anxious
consultations. have hoped that the
party to which we belong, Influenced
largely by faith and confidence in you
and in the wisdom of your views, woulC
be Quickened In the sense of RESPONSE
biiity and led to more harmonious &C
tion upon the important questions with
which you have had to deal.
In considering your proposed resig'
nation, / 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 en-.
tirely abandon your inclination to re-
Hnquish your post of arduous duty
But i am convinced that ! should not
do this, and that in all ! suggest anC
ask / should have much at heart YOU
welfare and safety.
4 You have placed your resignation ir
my hands. Ny responsibility here be-
gins, and know that the responsible
/ ity will be met and the wishes of the
people Of the land fully answered when
/ ask you to postpone for rawhile any
insistence upon the acceptance Of YOU
resignation, and that your final con.
clusion thereon may be delayed unit
the effects Of continued rest and free
/ dom from official care upon your con
dition may be better tested.
i therefore earnestly request you tc
accept a leave Of absence until the, first
day Of October next, when, If you so de
sire it, the question of your resignation
lmay be resumed with perhaps bettel