The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
STORER INDIGNANT
 AT THE PRESIDENT
Thinks Improper Language Was
 Used Toward His Wife
ROOSEVELT WAS NOT FAIR
The Manner of Removing the Former Ambassador to Austria-H Hungary Was Evidently Meant to Dscredit
 His Longtime Friend.

His Longtime Friend.
 Chicago December s.-The Chicago Tribune, in it's Washington dispatches today says that an extraordinary letter has been addressed by Bela.my Storer to President Roosevelt and the members of his cabinet in regard to his dismissal from the post of ambassador of the United States to Austria Hungary. l Ar Storer was dismissed because of his wifes supposed interference in af- | fairs of the Roman Catholic church and 1 her alleged misuse of letters from the 1 President It was also charged that Mrs. Storer had meddled with French politics by taking part in anti-republiean intrigue to promote the marriage of Victor Bon aparte with a member of the Orlean- ist family Both of these charges Mr. i Storer denies and. on the other hand, declares that the Presidents interest in the selection of Archbishop Ireland as a cardinal was not due to Storer or to Storer's wife but to the President alone. The text of Mr. Storer's letter was printed and transmitted not only to the ! President and his cabinet, but to mem bers of the foreign relations committee of the Senate.
 Obviously Intended to Discredit Him. MT. Storer says that his removal in so summary q manner, suddenly dis missed him from an office which he had been given reason to believe he had filled to the satisfaction of his own government and of that to which he was accredited, and being accompanied by no public explanation exposed him to sus- | picions and injurious conjectures such as must naturally arise when man in public office Is abruptly dismissed by his government with what is obviously intended to be discredit.
 The correspondence shows the familiar ! relations of the President and the Storers from the time MT. Roosevelt was gov ernor of New York until just after the Spanish war. Some of the Roosevelt let ters to Storer were addressed My Dear Belamy" and to his wife My Dear Maria" and Mrs. Storer addressed the President as Dear Theodore"
 Mr. Storer asserts that Roosevelt him self, while governor of New York, urged the Storers to use their influence with the vatican for lreland's promotion, be- lieving the prelate's well-known patriot ism would aid in solving the problems connected with the Catholic church in the Philippines. The later letters of MT. Roosevelt as President are published, evil dently to show the Presidents alleged inconsistency
 
 Storer, dated December Il, 19O5 after the efforts of the Storers in behalf of Arch bishop Ireland began to attract atten- ton, contains the following passages:
 lndiscreton Might Cause Scandal.
 "your direct or implied complaint of and reflections upon my own personal con duct give me no concern, but l am very gravely concerned at the misehievous ef- feet your letters must have in misrepre- sentng the position of the United States | government and by the far reaching governmental scandal your indiscretion may at any time cause
 Your letters not only convey totally wrong impression of my attitude. but they are such as you have no business what ever to write, in view of the position of your husband in the diplomatic service
 'The letter of Cardinal Merry Del Val, to you, of November 23, is a rebuke to you expressing plainly his belief that you have been unwarrantably officious in mat ters which you have properly no concern It should of itself be enough to show you how exceedingly unwise and improper your action in writing to him was.
 T am indignant that the wife of ar ambassador in the United States service should have written such a letter, should have given the impression undoubtedly conveyed in that letter, and should have incurred such a rebuke.
 You do not seem to realize that 1t is out of the question for me knowingly tc permit the wife of our diplomats to en- gage in ecclesiastic intrigues to influence the vatican"
 After referring to the report that Mrs Storer was known in Europe as the Amer ican amabassadress to Rome, MT. Roose- welt closes thus:
 | "I must ask you to give me positive promise in writing if Bellamy is to con- tinue In the service and if you even un- Intentionally violate it. I shall have to ask for Bellamy's resignation, for I can no longer afford to have the chance of scandal being brought on the entire Amer lean diplomatic service and on the govern ment itself by such indiscreet and ill., advised action as yours has been.''
 Feeling of Indignation. 1 'l cannot trust myself to express fully the feeling of indignation with which ] read the letter to Mrs. Storer," says Mir Storer.
 Though I was in the public service, felt. and still feel, that l had lost none of the rights which a man has to judge of the propriety of letters addressed tu his wife and to resent an improper com munication.
 'I did not then know what l have since learned-that the letter was not even writ ten for my wifes eyes, or mine alone, but had been shown to others before it was sent, and thus used to make case against a lady. a trusting friend, who could not be heard in her own defense.
 My wife was deliberately accused of having quoted isolated sentences from the Presidents letter to convince other persons that he was doing exactly what, as he asserts he had explicitly stated in writing that he would not do. This charge of shameful conduct was based on no evidence which could even have mis- led the writer into nasty judgment, but was in answer to letter which whether approved or not at least furnishes no such evidence either in itself or in it's | oclors.
 Letter Entirely Unjustified.
 "The long suffering and outraged pa- tience, the careful omission of all men, ton of anything that the writer had him | self done, and authorized to be dcne, in the matters complained of, the quotation | from the letters written at the time of | my err;ind to the Pope without any of the | facts and circumstances related above