Show FRED GRANT REPLIES WHAT HE BELIEVE HIS FATHER DID SAY In Effect He Says That His Papa W as a Goldhnsr null He Seems to Be Proud of It INDIANAPOLIS Ind Aug 10 Attorney Attor-ney General Kelcham today made public a letter from Frederick Grant in reply to a request for information In which he saysMy My Dear Acknowledging receipt of your communication of August 4 in which you ask me as to the truth of a statement which is and has been for years going the rounds to the effect that my father General Grant at one time said that he did not know when he signed the coinage act of 1872 that the silver dollar was dropped from the coinage and that if he had known the fact he would have vetoed the bill I hasten to reply that I frequently talkea with my father upon the question of standards of currency and never heard him intimate any such sentiment as is credited to him above I can only say that he never Intimated such a statement state-ment to me In all his conversations tome to-me he seemed to take the ground that it was a great misfortune for any country to have as the basis of their circulating medium any metal that had the least element I el-ement of uncertainty about it From the time that he was inaugurated president until the resumption of specie payment act was passed all his public announcements I announce-ments and so far as I know all his private pri-vate statements were aimed to secure a stable currency to the people of the United States The coinage act of 1873 does not eliminate thffsilver dollar from our coinage In fact the United States has coined since then more silver than had been coined during the entire period of our national existence I before and most of this coinage was made during his lifetime l It Is therefore not probable proba-ble that General Grant ever said that he would have vetoed tlhe act of 3873 if he had known that the silver dollar was dropped from the coinage and I would not believe any one who said that he heard my father make such a remark |