No. 228.
Mr. Washburne to Mr. Fish.
Paris , April 24, 1874. (Received May 7.)
Sir: The news of the President’s veto of the currency bill reached me before noon yesterday by a private dispatch from the office of the New York Herald in London. Very soon after this intelligence was received by the bankers and the public down town through the Havas telegraph agency. It created the greatest excitement among our countrymen and in French financial circles. Everywhere there was one universal shout of approval, and the praise of the President was on all lips, without distinction of politics, “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” All commended the firmness and patriotism and far-sighted statesmanship of the President. The veto will do an immense good over all Europe.
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I am, &c.,