Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1889 — A POSSIBLE RESIGNATION. [ARTICLE]

A POSSIBLE RESIGNATION.

Strained Bela’ton* Bt iwrrn 1 BJynrd and WlnUertOmflie St mi a Tn able*. Dispatches from Washington on the 28th indicate that Secretaries Bayard and Whitney are not in agreement over the management of affairs .as to Samoa The rumor is current that either Secretary Bayard or Secretary Whitney will resign within the next fbw days, the report even going so far as to say that a resignation has already been offered to the President. While it is not known that these rumors have anv foundation •in fact, the present strained condition of affairs in the Cabinet is undoubtedly the cause of their circulation, and she developments of the next few days will be watched with unusual interest. The State Department has been subjected to ro little criticism sinee the publication of Secretary Whitney’s letter to Mr. Bayard, in which he asks that'an additional policy be outlined for the benefit of the Navy Department. This latter \was dated January 5, 1889, but was not included in the batch of correspondence sent to CoDgress under date of January 16th. Said a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ‘‘Sect etary Whit-, ney had good reason to chafe under the inaction of the State Department and his letter was just such as a man of bis temperament would have written under the circumstances. As he says, he did not want his department kicked, so he wrote to Secretaiy bayard and asked him to indicate the policy to be pursued under the circumstances.” Secretary Bavard could not answer this question, and was referred to Congress when what purported to the entire correspondence was 6eut to the Senate.