The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-05

the growing needs of mighty people.
All our needful customs revenue might be col
lected by strictly revenue duties upon few arti-
cles, 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
A better currency than elsewhere exists might
be had by few laws repeating and empowering g
legislation, followed by two or three years of
capable administration of the Treasury. and
joined with the present sagaciou5 conduct OF
your foreign policies by the department.
Under the operation of currency laws and
tariff laws now in force, which you and the
Forty-ni Congress were elected by the people
to repeal and reform, the burdened industries OF
our country are plunging heavily along miro
roadway to foreseen danger. We talk OF ar
bitrating respective shares of disaster, in
stead of knocking off our sef-imposed fetters and
releasing general prosperity.
This is not, in my deliberate Judgment
time when the President can delay to provide or
afford to dispense with an actual as well as
tutelar head of the Treasury Department. The
fiscal policy of the federal government in respect
to debt so large and currency which is uni
versal cannot fail of being CHER factor in ma
tional and individual we'll being Your own
duty, to which you have addressed yourself with
such clear and unfinching purpose. the duty OF
Congress in the premises, and the laws which
may yet be enacted for the guidance of the
Treasury Department, will require that you be
assisted in their administration by an officer Ca
pable of full efficiency and unwearied circum-
spection. Permit me- therefore, without heslta-
tion. to accept my temporary disability as
summons to stand aside and make way for one
Immediately capable of fulfilling every require
ment of the public service.
Very respectfully yours,
DANIEL MANNING,
"To the President
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON June /.
'My Dear Mr. Manning have received your
letter, in which your resi- gnation 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 present admins
tration l am not surprised, though much i'm
pressed 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 often topics of our
anxious consultations. / have hoped that the
day at hand when the party to which we be-
long, 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 i'm
portant questions with which you have had to
deal.
''In considering your proposed resignation,
should be strongly inclined by my personal re-
gard and friendship, and by the value Of your
SeTVlceS 10 Tile CouutFA, W DcR YOU 10 dt
entirely abandon your inclination to relinquish
your part of the arduous duty; but | am con-
vinced that / should not Go this, and that in all
suggest and ask I should have much at heart
your welfare and safety. You have placed your
resignation in my hands. My responsibility
here begins, and know that the responsibility
will be met and the wishes of the people of the
land fully answered when ask you to postpone
for awhile any insistance upon the acceptance of
your resignation. and that your final conclusion
thereof may be delayed until the effects of con
tinued rest and freedom from official care upon
your condition may be better tested. ] there
fore earnestly request you TO accept leave of
absence until the first day of October next,
when. If you desire it. the question of your resg-
nation may be resumed, with, perhaps better
means of Judging all the facts ard probabilities
which should be considered in its determination.
Hoping that you will consent to this sugges-
ton. and trusting that your encouraging progress
faithfully your friend GRovgR CLEVELAND.
Secretary Manning has accepted the Presi-
dents suggestion, and will allow his resignation
to lie over until his leave of absence shall have
expired. Assistant Secretary Fairchid has been
requested to continue 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
Revenue, and Mrs. Miller, will leave Washington
to- morrow afternoon for Hot Springs, Va.