River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-12
LAMAR RESIGNS.
The Mississippi Statesman Leaves the
Cabinet-The President Warmly Conn
mends the Course of His Tx Minister.

/ The Mississippi Statesman Leaves the
Cabinet-The President Warmly Conn
mends the Course of His administer.
WASHINGTON, Jan o = Secretary Lamar
has rendered to the President his -esigna-
ton as Secretary of the Interior, and it was
accepted by the President The formal
resignation, it is understood, will not go
into effect until noon of Tuesday next, in
order TO enable the Secretary to close up
some 70 utine business Secretary Lamar's
/ letter is dated January z, and reads as fol-
lows:
ITO THE PREsTDENT-when, some months
| ago you inv Ted me to accept the vacant
| Judgeship in the Supreme Court, you expressed
the wish that as the court was not in session
should postpone the resignation OF my present
/ Dfiiee until the meeting OF Congress allowed
yOu 20 send my nomination TO the Senate,
I and there were certain matters before the
{ department inaugurated by me. which
IL was therefore. desirable that 1 should
close before leaving. AS would have
been very reluctant To take tie place upon the
bench until your nomination had been con-
irmed by the Senate, l chez rfully consented TO
your request My nomination has now been
submitted 10 the Senate, and. recognizing both
It's right and its duty TO subject ITS fitness TO
the most critical examination, would stiu
await. in my present position, its decision But
1 think / am warranted in supposing that the
/
las you have at the same time nominated
my successor in this department and his sue
/ ressor in the POST once Department this de-
lay may 10 some extent at least en-
barrass the administration OF the public
business in the departments mentioned.
To avoid such embarrassment, which is
my duty 20 you and to the country, and
TO leave before the Senate, in its final Judgment
upon my nomination, the sole question OF my
fitness for the position. ASSOCIATED from any
pther nomination and unaffected by any other
considerations, l now respectfully ask you TO
accept my resignation as Secretary Of the In
I terror, which hereby tender.
"In terminating my relations to you
member OF your official family. l desire to ex-
press my grateful sense OF the obligation
I am under 10 you personally for the
consideration and kindness which have
always characterized your treatment OF
me. and for the generous confidence
and support which you have steadily
given me in the trying and arduous admins
tration of this department. shall always be
proud TO have been associated with the honor
able record you will leave upon the page ofyour
eountry's history. Sincerely and respectfully,
II. @. c. LAMAR, Secretary"
The President in ccepting the resigna-
ton, says:
my DEAR Mr. LAMAR-When determined
to nominate you 10 position upon the bench
Of the Supreme Court, the personal gratitlca-
ton afforded by the tender TO you OF so honor
able and suitable place, and the satisfactory
conviction that an important executive duty
would be performed well led me almost TO for
get that my action involved the loss Of your
conscientious and valuable aid and service in
Cabinet councils, which for nearly three years
[ have much enjoyed and appreciated
Your note OF to-day forces me 10 contem-
plate this contingency with the most profound
and sincere regret. But since l know that the
separation you now insist upon arises from that
conception OF public duty which has always so
entirely guided your conduct in your official re-
lation. am constrained TO accept the resigna-
ton you tender, hoping that it only anticipates
your entrance upon the discharge of higher anu
more congenial functions than those now relin-
quished.
What / have thus far written seems very
formal indeed. / intended this because am
sure that the close confidence and the relations
Of positive affection which have grown up be-
tween US need no expression or Interpretation.
And yet / find it utterly impossible for me to
finish this note without assuring you that the
things which have characterized your con
duct and bearing in the position from which
sou now ret.re-al your devotion 10 your coun-
try and your chief; your self-saerihcing care
and solicitude for public interests; all the ben
eft which your official service has conferred
upon your fehow-countrymen, and all the af-
lection and kindness you have so often exhib-
lted toward me personality shall constantly
remember with tenderness and gratitude.
Yours very sincerely,
"GROvER CLEVELAND
Hon J. @. c. Lamar, Secretary Of the In
terror, Washington