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Show Flis It.Msons For liesisning. New Yokk, July 29. Collector Li'hanit has given out, in reply to various var-ious (pics t ions put to lorn, touching his resignation of tlie collectorship, the following statement: 'I have resigned because the Collector Collec-tor has been reduced to a position where he is no longer an independent otlicer with authority commensurate with his responsibility. I have given bonds for S'00.000. I have received for the government during these twenty months last past, 322,007.185, and in that small time was personally respon sible for tue enormous values in money and merchandise. My duties arc necessarily nec-essarily pei formed through ah )ut 1,500 employes. I am not willing to continue to be responsible for their conduct unless I can have proper aut hor ty over them. The recent policy of the treasury department has j been to control the details of the custom cus-tom administration of the part of New Yoak, from Washington, at the dictation dicta-tion of a private individual haying no otlicial responsibility. The collector is practically deprived of power, while he is iclt subject to all the responsibility. responsi-bility. The ollice is no longer independent, inde-pendent, and therefore we have seper-ated. |