New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-29
MIR. GAGEHAs NOT RESIGNED
NO DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN Ia"
PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY.
BOTH OF THEM DENY RUMoRs THAT THE RESi"-
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washington. Dec 2S-On Friday last Secre'
tarv Gage. on entering the room in which the
Cabinet generally meets said to the PRESIDENT
"If am embarrassing you or the Administra-
ton in any way. you have only to intimate a.
much"
The President probably was surprised at t"'S
statemen, from the Secretary, for he promptly
assured Mr. Gage that no such idea hao ever
entered his mind This is all that has passeo
on the subject between the President ana tne
Secretary Of the Treasury. In measure
was no doubt. an offer on the part OF the Secre-
tary to resign but It is doubtful whether even
nc ever thought that 1t would be seriously con-
sidered by the President.
The offer to resign. or. more correctly speak
ing. the intimation OF o. readiness to resign uhoer
certain contingencies. was prompted, II is uhder'
stood by the somewhat violent attack mace o"
the Secretary about a week or ten days ago ny
Senator Wolcott, Of Colorado In some quarters
II is seriously asserted that the President VIII
be called upon 10 choose between secretary
Gage and Senator Wolcott." Precisely why OF
by whom he should be called upon is not stated
nor does 1t seem material in view or the iac'
freely vouchsafed at headquarters that II any
one IS invited to walk the plank" as some
slightly imaginative person expresses H. II VIII
not be the Secretary of the Treasury Nor is 1t
possible 10 ascertain precisely how Cniteo
States Senator. possessing no small amount OF
independence and carefully assorted stock OK
convictions" is to be made to walk the
plank"
That phase Of the question, therefore, might as
well be dismissed along with the other one, OF
which it Is perhaps only the natural outcome
The Presidents statement. made this after
noon that Secretary Gage had not offered his
resignation, should certainly be sufficient TO put
an end to the whcle matter.
Secretary Gage was seen to-day on his return
from New York. and asked as to the truth or
the published report that he had rendered MS
resignation 10 the President. and that IL had
been firmly declined with many expressions OF
confidence and appreciation OF his ability as
shown In his administration OF the treasury
Department. Mr. Gage was not inclined to dis
cuss the matter at length. but said that ne mao
not rendered his resignation, nor had ne any
reason to believe that he and the President were
not in substantial accord on the great questions
now before the country The report, he said,
probably sprung from, a remark he had mads
to the effec; that not for anything would he
was doing this he would resign at once
He added: "A Cabinet officer ought always to
be and Is ready to surrender his office at the
call Of his chief, the Executive. but nave not
! the slightest reason to believe that such action
on my part is even remotely desired by the
President The desires of other people In that
| direction am not disposed to consider"
Assistant Secretary vanderlip, when asked to-
day concerning report that Secretary Gage
had rendered his resignation and President Nc
Kinley had refused to accept 1t. said: There -
! nothing in it," The report in question gave Mr.
Vanderip as authority for the assertion Mr.
| Vanderlip further said that so far as he was
| quoted as authority for the report. he could say
| that there was nothing in IL. for he had never
so stated 10 any person.
Lyman J. Gage. Secretary Of the Treasury who
came TO New-York 10 attend a dinner at the savoy
Hotel Monday night left the city before noon yes
terday. Mr. Gage went down 10 Wall Street early
| in the morning and visited the National City Bank
He also Charles 5. Farchild