The sun., 1903-07-14
ROME MISSlONNOTFORFRANCIS
ryEy IF AMBASSADOR MEYER
SHOULD RESIGN.
The Place Promised to Henry White. First
secretary OF Our Embassy I'm London
--Rumor Mayor Low Can Have AM
h,ssadorship When Vacancy Occurs.

The Place FTOWlbeu w NchFy WWAsus TWse
secretary OF Our Embassy I'm London
--Rumor Mayor Low Can Have AM
bassadorship when Vacancy Occurs.
WARRINGTON, July ls.-A good deal
- Gossip has been caused here to-day
vow n statement attributed to Senator
platt. that Charles s. Francis OF Troy, who
bad applied for the Ambassadorship at
pone. could not get II, because the incum-
hert. George Won l.. Meyer OF Massachu-
sotts was a personal friend Of Senator
Lodges. and for that reason President
poosevelt had said, according to Senator
patt, that he could have the place as long
ss he wanted it.
Il had been expected for q long time that
Mr. Never would give up the Ambassador
sbp Mr.. Francis. when he applied for the
nlace probably knew this; but, even IL Mr..
Never had resigned. Mr. Francis would not
have been appointed TO the vacancy. 1t
ia well known here that the place has been
nron,ised to Henry White OF Rhode Island.
now First Secretary Of the American En-
hassy in London. But Mr.. Meyer holds
on. and there Is a general belief hero that
he intends to continue to do 40
MIR. Meyer became Ambassador to Italy
on Dec H. 1900. It has been and still
s asserted by those who claim TO know
that President Mckinley, In agreeing to
appoint MIR. Meyer. stipulated that he was
to hold the office for ono year only Senator
Hoar has denied that when he urged Mir
Meyers appointment there was any under
standing with President Mckinley as to
how long Mr.. Meyer should hold the post.
II is a fact, however, that not long before
his death Mr.. Mckinley offered the Am
lassador orship to Italy to Myron 7. Herricl
Of Cleveland, Ohio, who had been asked to
take the same place and had declined prior
to MIR Meyers selection. Col. Herrick
declined the second tender. After Mr..
Ecosev,lt became President, he urged
Gel. Herrck to accept the mission at Rome
Nid, ltly in the understanding that Mr..
Never was to serve short time only, but
CoI Herrick said he preferred TO stay at
hCme.
About this time it became known that
William Henry Moody, Representative in
Congress from the Sixth Massachusetts,
district, would succeed John d. Long as
Secretary OF the Navy In the President g
Cabinet. MIR, Meyers legal residence is
in that district, and he was announced as
q candidate TO succeed Mr.. Moody in Con-
gress. 1t was then generally expected
that he would resign the Ambassadorehip
But Capt. Augustus Peabody Gardner,
Senator Lodges son-in-law, was also. a
resident OF the Sixth district, and he also
wanted to succeed Mr.. Moody.
For time 1t was uncertain whether Mr.
Meyer would oppose Capt. Gardner In the
nominating convention, but the upshot OF
the matter was that Mr.. Meyer did not re-
strv, opL rovf HorIpNr chOaon Since
then there has been little said about the
reported agreement Of President Mckinley
and Mr.. Meyer, that the latter should re-
main In Rome for only one year, and the
general belief has been that Senator Lodge
on account Of Mr.. Meyers consideration
in not opposing Capt. Gardner, used his
influence with President Roosevelt to retain
Mr.. Meyer in Office.
One plece Of gossip that has developed
out Of the reported desire OF Charles b
Francis to be Ambassador to Italy is that
Mayor Low can have an Ambassadorshir
whenever a vacancy occurs, the Roman
mission being excepted on account Of the
that If Mr.. Low should not be renominated
or, II renominated, should not be elected
President Roosevelt will try to make hi m
take a foreign mission.
Some people here seem to think that on
account Of the KishineH petition incident
and the official statement, said to have been
approved at Oyster Bay and given out in
Washington as coming from the State
Department, In which Russia was accused
OF unfriendliness toward the United States
In the Manchurian negotiations, Robert
g. Mccormick of Illinois, the present Am.
bassador to Russia, who is now In this coun'
try on leave, will not return to st. Peters
burg. Mayor Lows name has been men
toned In connection with this possibility
as the successor Of Mr.. Mccormick, ant
dlction that nobody who signed the Kishi
netf petition will be received in a dipIo
matic capacity by the Russian Govern
ment. Mr.. Low signed the Kishinef pc
tition