Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-24
is ACCOMPANIED BY LETTERS
One from Chicagoan Asking Name
Be Dropped and Other Accept
ing Suggestion.
EXECUTIVE RELUCTANT TO ACT
Explains His Reasons for Taking
CouNe He Has.
WOULDN'T HALT PROGRAM
Not willing to Allow Harvester
Man to Continue as Foot Ball
in Contest.

WASHINGTON July 22-Presdent
Wilson late today withdrew the nomi-
nation of Thomas D. Jones of Chicago
to be a member of the Federal Reserve
board.
The presidents message ending the bit
terest appointment fight Of his admins
tration reached the senate while Senator
Reed was making a vigorous speech in
opposition to Mr.. Jones' confirmation on
account of his connection with the So
called harvester trust.
with the withdrawal were sent letters
exchanged by the president and Mr..
Jones. the latter asking that his name
be Withdrawn on account of embarrass-
ment It was causing the administration
and the president reluctantly accepting
tn suggestion. President Wilson wrote
he was not willing to allow Mr.. Jones to
continue as a foot BALI in the contest
that had arisen and did not want a per-
sonal matter to interfere with program
of great constructive legislation nearing
completion.
President Wilson's letter to Mr. Jones
read:
''My Dear Friend: Your Letter of tho
twentieth of July brings to me, I think,
more kinds of regret than any other letter
I ever received: Regret, first of all, that
the country should loose the invaluable
services Of such a man as 1 and all fair
minded men who know you at all, know
you to be; regret that I should have
brought upon you so unpleasant an ex-
perience in which you were treated with
gross and manifest injustice; regret that
such circumstances should seem even for
the moment to be associated with appoint
ment to high office under the great gov
eminent of the United States, represent
ing a generous, fair and honorable peo-
pie; regret that the Organization of q
great banking system should be so en-
EarrusSed and obstructed.
"You need not think that anything in
the present circumstances has embar-
rassed me in the least. It causes me not
the slightest embarrassment. have no
moment o hesitation or tagging enthusi-
asm in standing by men whom ] honor
and believe in. It gives me nothing but
pleasure and exhiliration to stand by
them at any time and to any extent You
may leave my feeling my feelings for
MYSELF out of the reckoning.
senate Not to Blame.
The aspect of this matter, which seems
to me of gravest concern and conse-
quence is that the choice of members Of
the federal reserve board of the new
banking system should have been an oc-
Casion of partisan alignment and action.
The adverse report on your nomination
to which you justly refer as unfair and
untrue is, of course, not to be charged to
the feeling or action of the senate of the
United States, or to anything for which
that great body as a whole can be held
responsible The report is signed only by
the minority members of the committee
and by two members of the majority who
have usually acted with them, There is
no reason to believe that either in its
temper or in its conclusions that report
represents the attitude OF the new ma
tioGai banking system, a system conceived
and enacted with no element of PARTISAN
ship in its objects or provisions, might
have been free from this unfortunate and
ominous incident"