The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-12
ALCER READY
TO RESIGN.
At Least Such Is the Story
That Is Now Reiterated.
PRESIDENT MUST DEMAND IT.
Cabinet Members Are Said 10 Be Very
Anxious TO Avoid Any Open Breach
Mr.. MKINlEY IS DELAYING ACTION.
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Washington. ID. c.,July 12.-SeeretGry
Alger has prepared his resignation' Dut
he has not presented It, and he VIII not
DO 50. he says. unless the President
asks for it, and this the President is
unwilling to do, although he would be
very glad TO accept the res gnation,
and hopes Secretary Alser will offer 1t.
under uhe pressure OF the Republican
ewspapers ana OF many prominent Re-
publican politicians. and in accordance
with the wishes of all the other MEM
bels of the cabinet.
Secretary Alger has been made to
realize within the past As hours the de-
size q, the President and the other
members of the administration. and the
weight q the nfiueaee Pressing Tor has
rCnlOyal bat agCncugn he knows mat
he made great mistake In allyinS
himself with Gov. Plngree and COINS
into ltne Michigan senatorial nSht, anu
that ali the hepubncan leaders ana
OF sans that wanted him removed FOR
his war time biun1ering are availtng
themselves OF this new and politically
better occasion and that the President
would DE glad 10 be relieved OF the
embarrassment created, he does not
pliJucSe TO abandon the fic.~ to uhose
he considers his enamies without
fight of some kind and insists that the
President must ask for MS resignation
before IL will be presented.
The President knows already from
Secretary Alger. as, indeed, he does in
the case Of every other member OF the
cabinet that his resignation VIII De IN
stantly presented upon any request
formal or informant from hlHl-tnr. L.
But he also knows that Secretary Al
ger would consider such request an
unfriendly act, and he hesitates 10 take
such a step, even Though ne does not
fear the consequences of such retana-
ton as Alger intfmates he would make
an exposures about the PRESIDENT re-
sponsibility for the mistakes OF tne
war department during the Spanish
war period.
Secretary Alger may be forced out OF
the cabinet for his explanation OF ms
relations with Gov. PingrNe ana ms at
titude toward the senatorship when
was intended to pave the way Tor ms
withdrawal from the senatorial race,
has not made the impression which ne
hoped IL would. On the contrary, the
demand for his removal has become
more insistent and pugnacious since
that exclamation was published. Yet
the President hesitates to say the nec-
essary word, and until he can bring
himself to do so Secretary Alger Will
remain. and he may, therefore, stay
till March T. 1901.
Even II he resigns. Secretary Alger
will make every effort to prevent his
resignation from taking effect until con-
gress meets in December for he pro-
poses to prepare the official annual re-
port. in which he Will review the oper-
ations of the war department. during
the war period. He has accepted the
strenuous advice of his friends to hold
on to his place until he had received
all the annual reports of his subordi-
mates, including Gen. Miles, for this
year. and has submitted them with his
own comment in the annual report OF
the secretary of war TO the president.
Gen. Francis V. Greene. according to
report current may be asked by Pres
ident Mckinley to succeed Gen. Aiger
as secretary of war. Gen. Greene con-
ferred with Gov Roosevelt and senator
Platt in New York, but IL could not be
learned whether his possible appoint
ment was q scussed
IL is expected that the secretaryship |
will be given 10 New York, which has |
had no representation in the cabinet |
since Secretary Bliss resigned. Gen. |
Greene Is receiving a large income from |
his profession, and he refused TO be- |
come SUPERINTENDENT OF public works |
at Gov. Roosevelt's request. The gov
ernor Is his warm friend and his ap- |
pointment. IL is sad. would be salts |
factory TO Senator Platt.