Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-25
Jones on His Talk with the President.

Washington Correspondence N. Y. Herald.
Senator Jones of Nevada, to whom
the President has given fame in the
financial world by reason of the declar-
atOry letter which he wrote to him, on
being asked to-day for his theory of
the Presidents writing to him, re-
piled in an unreserved, honest and
blunt way:
"Why, the fact Of the matter is that
the President saw that both Houses of
Congress had been tinkering away
with the finances for more than six
months, and had come to no conclus-
ion, but were scolding away about
them still. First this one came to see
him and then that one, and each sue
cessive person, just as his ideas seemed
to strike him, said that the Presidents
views were first one thing and then
another, and / suppose the President
got tired of this sort of thing and made
up his mind not to be misrepresented
any more; so he went to work, and
that there might be no mistake, he at
once wrote out his views. These were
the views which l came across when
they were submitted to myself and
two or three other gentlemen who had
called on him for the purpose of talk
ing over things generally, and mainly
the finances. l heard the views, and
I liked them so well that, in my own
plain, matter-of-fact way, l made up
my mind that as gentlemen were
talking about the Presidents views,
and saying all sorts of things about
them, they should have them, and
this was the golden opportunity to
have them made public. | asked, ac-
cordingly, and did the best thing posi-
BILE. In fact, you may put II pin-mark
in there. If certain gentlemen are, as
| understand, displeased, cannot
help it, and do not care much
about it. l am not seeking after
favcis; have no axes to grind; have
not asked for any official patronage,
and don't want it. Neither am a
candidate for the Presidency, and
hence to whom better than me could
the President have written his views
on the finances? He could not have
written to any of the conference COM
mittee, as that would look like dictat-
ing to Congress. He could not, with
propriety, have written to an Eastern
or Southern Senator. Now l am out
of the vortex of excitement, confus-
ion and antagonism which has pre-
vailed. am a new Senator and far
Western representative; have never
been mixed up with any of the discus
sions nor ill feeling nor stife which
have prevailed from time to time
and hence it could not have hap
pened better, and if the people don't
like it, all l have to say is l do not
care a farthing, and do not ask any
favors. Now, l think l can see that,
if there was going to be any specie re-
sumption, the glory of it would be
made to fall within the present
term of General Grant, and hence it
was urged so as to be effected in 1876,
SO that the campaigners might not go
to the country with their declarations,
if the year 1878 was selected, and say
that the administration has not come
back to specie payments, and goes out
without effecting it; and it is left to
us, under the new Government COM
ing in, to settle that obligation under
new administration. Thus they can
have strong objection to the third
term, and 60 before the people with
the warning cry Of Third term on
account of the quarrel select their own
candidate, and elect him against Cen
eral Grant on the financial issue. But
the President simply desires that the
glory of the achievement of specie re-
sumption shall crown his administra-
tion."