The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11

advocated Bellany's going to Italy. As soon as l made inquiry to the effect, both here and abroad, of appointments to Germany and Italy, I found what the facts were. In no other case would. the question of Catholicism cause any seri- ous trouble but have not the slightest idea whether any man intends at pres ent to leave his position.
 "Of Porter in France I hear nothing but the strongest praise. He seems to have done peculiarly well. It would be an injustice of a fragrant kind to turn him out at the present time. It Is, of course, always possible that I may make a shift, and if in doing so France should become vacant I should offer it to Bellamy at once, unless It happened that I was able to offer him a cabinet position; but as things are just at this time l do not see the likelihood of such condition arising. have written with minutest detail, for I want you to understand exactly how the things nov stand.
 Faithfully yours, (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt"
 The president says;
 The assertion that I authorized him to make such a statement as he says he was authorized to make to the pope is untrue. gave him no such authoriza- ton He omits to note that he him self told Archbishop Ireland that he had done so, and the letter of the lat ter to me, which I had quoted, I have ready to submit, with other letters, of what the president told Archbishop Ire land of his message, through me, to the pope.
 He says, and it is supported by MT. Loeb, that he never received my letter reporting in detail my visit to the vat ican. That letter was written and mail ed from Meran, within the Austrian frontier, at my first moment of stop long enough to write after leaving Rome. The date is the 4th or 5th of December, 1903, and the letter is the one referred to by me in my letter to the president of January 10, 1904, where I say, As I wrote you exactly what did and said, you may judge whether overstepped' It is a pity the letter in question cannot be found.
 The president charges me with dis ingenioushess' in the matter of my res ignation in January, 1904, the one which was refused by him, and says that my resignation was based on another req son entirely than my going to the vat ican to convey his message, and his treatment of the matter afterwards. He had, in the strongest terms, already forbidden me to refer to that matter, and already forbidden me to quote him again in reference to it. It was, there fore, quite proper and natural not to speak of it, but simply to leave it to him to accept my resignation on any if he saw fit.
 "The Hurst incident-in which, though in principle I was right, I felt I had been wrong in detail, and was not afraid to say so-afforded me a perfect opportunity to tender my resignation without again troubling the presidents susceptibilities regarding his messages 10 Rome. II lu6 WOIu NdLlcdn was not mentioned in my letter of resigna- tion, the facts were in existence within the knowledge of the president, all the same. It was five months only before the renonninating convention and I was desirous of avoiding any possible em- barrassment to MT. Roosevelt in any way, This now becomes particular perfldy' on my part, in the view and language of the president of the United States. As have already said, my original letter is really an answer to everything else that is contained in the presidents communication to the press ask deliberate judgment on it in re- ply to whatever he has seen fit to charge upon me and mine"