JONES, .Tony PERCIVAL ( 1830—). An _\ meri can legislator and politician. born in Hereford shire, England. on the Welsh border. Ile was brought to the United States in 1831 by his parents, who settled in northern Ohio, and there. in the public schools of Cleveland. he received his education. Shortly after the discovery of gold in California he crossed the plains to the Pacific Coast. where lie became successful as a mine owner and operator. From 18,63 to 18117 he was a member of the California State Senate. re moving in the latter year to Nevada. where lie became and part owner of the famous 'Crown Point' silver-mine. the subsequent development of which brought. him a large for tune. He became interested in Republican poli tics in the State, obtained great influence with the miners, and in 1S73 was elected by the Nevada Legislature to succeed James Nye in the United States Senate. To this office he was reiilected as a Republican in 1879, 1885. and
1891, and as a `Silverite' in 1597. In the Senate lie was long a member of the Committee on Post-Roads, where he was an indefatigable worker in behalf of the extension of the system in the Pacific States, and of the Committee on Mines and Mining. to which his practical knowledge proved of the greatest value. Ms identification with the silver movement. dates from August. 1875. when he became chairman of the monetary commission provided for by joint resolution of Congress to examine and report upon the ques tion of bimetallism. After that date he stood consistently as one of the foremost champions of bimetallism in the county, favored the free coinage of silver without regard to the rest of the world,•and on that issue left the Republican Party and supported Bryan in 1896. During the eampaign of 1900 he returned to the P,epub liean Party. though without giving up his free silver theories.