The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-24
GROSS INJUSTICE
SHOWN TO JONES,
W|LSONDECLARES
President Withdraws Nomi-
nation as Member of Fed
eral Reserve Board.
ENDS BITTEREST FIGHT
OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
Chicago Man Urges This Course
to Avoid Embarrassing
Chief Executive.
MILD SENSATION IN SENATE
Action Does Not Indicate Change in
Determination to Insist Upon
Confirmation of Warburg.
ENDS BlTTEREST FIGHT
OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
MILD SENSATION IN SENATE
Action Does Not Indicate Change in
Determination to Insist Upon
Confirmation of Warburg.

Confirmation of Warburg.
Washing ton. July 23.-Presidcnt VIII
son late to-day ended the bitterest
fight of his administration by with
drawing the nomination of Thomas -.
Jones, OF Chicago. to be member ot
the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Jones
had written urging this action.
The message of withdrawal reached
the Senate just Senator Reed, OF
Missouri. one Of the Democrats oppos-
ing confirmation of the appointment,
was concluding a vigorous denuncia-
ton of the International Harvester
Company. of which Mr.. Jones is Il
director and those responsible for it's
existence and operations. 1t created
a mild sensation. and cut short de-
bate that promised to run indefinitely.
With the brief message. the Presi-
dent sent copies of Mr.. Joness letter
and his reply. Opposition TO the nolni-
nee had been based on his connection
with the Harvester Company, which is
under indictment as trust. The Sem
ate Banking Committee had submitted
majority report adverse to contirma-
ton. signed by all the Republicans and
two Democratic members. Mr.. Jones
wrote that this report was based on
a distortion Of facts and pcrvcrsion OF
the truth"
MANIFEST INJUSTICE
SHOWN TO NOMINEE
cepted Mr.. Joness suggestion with re-
luctance, and scored those who he said
had treated his nominee with gross
and manifest injustice" lie disclaimed
any embarrassment in standing byc.a
man he believed in; declaring he was
unwilling to allow Mr.. Jones to be Il
"football' in the contest that sprung
up.
At the White House, it was said tho
Presidents action to-day did not in
dicate that there had been any change
in his determination to insist upon the
confirmation OF Paul NJ wa-burg,
whose nomination TO the reserve board
Is also being opposed
The Senate contest over the Jones
case, which threatened partial oblbera-
ton OF party lines and free for-all
struggle. was at it's height when tho
President determined to abandon his
effort to force the nomination through.
Feeling in the Senate ran high.
Senator Reed to- day took the floor,
and for several hours he held the Sem.
ate with an attack on the Harvester
Company. Mr.. Joness connection with
. that concern was the principal basis
for the opposition to his nomination.
WHiRLwIND OF SARCASM
AT VESTEIt TRUST
Senator Reed began with a review
of Presidents Wilson's position against
monopoly, as expressed in the Presi-
dents writings: his expressions as to
the personal guilt" OF officials of Of
tending corporations, and Democratic
platform declarations on the same sub
ject. Through the history OF the Har-
vester Company. the Senator swept
with whirlwind OF invectives and
sarcasm, reciting from arguments in
the government suit against the con-
Germ and the record of congressional
investigation.
This pirate ship, whose keel was
laid down by Morgan and Perkins in
1902" said Senator Reed, lis sailing the
same sea to-day, manned by the samo
crew, except for an occasional dummy
director TO fill vacancy. and those
who tread her decks to-day are just as
deserving of punishment as those who
launched her \on her buccaneering
cruise"
1.-The man who conducts the hal>>
vcster trust" the Senator said, Cannot
escape responsibility by alleging that
his sponsor and friend created il be-
fore he took service. The Harvester &
Company has many arms 1t is only
one of that pestiferous litter whelped
in the Morgan offices. These all are
united by the triple ties of consan-
gunity. affinity and interest. The mo-
nopoly quagmirc has a common origin
and a common bed. Touched at its cir
cumference, it quivers its entire body.
Shake IL, and there will come crawl
Ing to the surface the foul beasts that
inhabit slime. Their heads will appear
in concert, and their angry cries unto
in an nharmonious chorus of male
diction.
Their cause is as much in common
as as was that OF Al Raba and his forty,
you arouse the steel trust. Awaken it
and You disturb chain of subsidiary
companies"
SUPr0HTERS OF JONES
While Senator Reed was speaking.
Secretary Tumulty held conferences
with Senators Hollis and Pomerene.
and Shafroth. have been most active
Jones.
The Presidents secretary had not
long been in conference with the Send
tors from Ohio and New Hampshire
before the purpose of his mission was
whispered about the Senate lobby.
In executive session a few minutes
later the formal announcement of the
withdrawal was received without COM
inent. When the Senate adjourned.
feast In the cloakroom Senator
Hitchcock. in speaking of the effect
of the message. said:
Tho message certainly lifted a load
from great many Democrats. I am
sure it is a good thing fo- Democracf."
Senator Reed also expressed his de- I
light over the outcome.
Senator Lewis. OF Illinois, declared
that had the President kept his nan,S
before the Senate. Mr.. Jones would
have been confirmed.
President Wilson is said to have
been determined to press Mr.. Jones's
nomination until noon to-day. when ho
concluded that the antitrust program
might be endangered IL the fight in
the Senate was continued.
Speculation over whom Mr.. Wilson
VII VIII choose as Mr. Mr. Iones's successor
ton was Withdrawn, The names ot
Omer +, Hershey, of Baltimore, and
l. NJ Fenton. the choice of senator
under considerations vas -