DANIEL MANNING - CLIPPED SIGNATURE - HFSID 17448

DANIEL MANNING
Clipped signature of Daniel Manning as President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury, affixed to a cabinet card-style bust photo of Manning by George Prince
Clipped signature: "D. Manning" as "Secretary.", probably Secretary of the Treasury. With red ink notation in unknown hand. 3¾x1, with beveled edges. Lightly toned, soiled and rippled. Affixed to: Unsigned cabinet card-style photo of Daniel Manning. B/w, 3¾x5¼ photo affixed to 4x6¼ card with beveled edges. Photo by George Prince, Artistic Portraits, Washington, D. C., with credit printed at bottom of card and on verso. Lightly toned and creased. Light scuff marks on photo. Errors on negative were reproduced in photo. Photographer's credit is partially obscured by affixed signature on front. Adhesive residue on photo at edges of affixed signature and on verso (no show-through). Otherwise in fine condition. Manning (1831-1887, born in Albany, New York) was an editor and owner of the Albany Argus and chairman of the New York Democratic Committee before being appointed Secretary of the Treasury (1885-1887) under President Grover Cleveland. Before retiring due to ill health, he advocated basing the dollar on both gold and silver. This was a rather important issue to a young United States. Eastern bankers wanted it backed by gold, while Westerners wanted it backed by silver (the West had many large silver mines, after all). He also worked on a tarrif that became the McKinley Tariff of 1890, which lowered customs duties.