Northern Tribune

Looking up Manning's Record.
Special Telegram to the Inter Ocean.
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 19.-The announcement of the fact that Mr. Manning could, if he would consent, enter President Cleveland's Cabinet as secretary of the Treasury, has created much Manning gossip, and his record is being carefully examined by persons who seem anxious to ascertain if he is likely to become, as the head of the National Treasury Department, a vigorous reformer. These investigations are asserting that Mr. Manning does not possess a reformer's record. They declare he has been a machine man who has made money out of his connection with politics. He is worth over a half million of dollars, and made most of his fortune in the Argus printing office. It is said that this printing office, the financial matters of which Mr. Manning has managed for many years, made its money during the Tweed regime out of a contract for printing done. In one year the Argus, it is stated, cleared over $100,000. These attacks and a precarious condition of health are having their effect upon Mr. Manning, who, it is said, has concluded to not accept a place in the Cabinet unless Mr. Cleveland puts his request into the form of an appeal to a friend for support.