Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-09

exceedingly unwise and improper your
action in writing to him was.
bassador in the United States service should
have written such a letter, should given
the impression undoubtedly conveyed IN
that letter and to have incurred such
You do not seem to realize that it is out
OF the question for me knowingly to per-
init the wife of one Of our diplomats to
engage in ecclesiastical intrigues TO IN
huence the Vatican.
After referring to the report that Mrs.
Storer was known in Europe as the Amer
lean ambassadress to Rome, Mr.. Roosevelt
closes thus:
Demands Promise.
must ask you to give me this positive
In the service. and if you even unnten-
tionally violate II / shall have to ask for
Bellamy's resignation, for can no longer
afford to have the chance of scandal being
brought on the entire American diplomatic
service and on the government itself by
such indiscreet and ill-advised action as
yours has been.
Il cannot trust myself to express fully
the feeling of Indignation with which l
read the letter TO Mrs. Storer," says Mr..
Storer.
Though l was In the public service, l
felt, and still feel, that 1 had lost none Of
the rights which man has to Judge of the
propriety of letters addressed to his wife
and to resent an improper communication.
Il did not then know what l have since
learned that the letter was not even writ
ten for my wife's eyes or mine alone, but
had been shown to others before it was
sent, and thus used to make case against
lady, a trusting friend, who could not be
heard in her own defense,
st0rer Evidently Angry.
MY wife was deliberately accused Of hav-
I
idents letters to convince other persons
that he was doing exactly what, as he as
serts, 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 misled the writer
into a hasty judgment, but was in answer
to a letter which, whether approved or not,
at least furnishes no such evidence either
in itself or in its Enclosures.
The tone Of long suffering and outraged
patience. the careful omission OF all mem
ton of anything that the writer had him
| self done and authorized to be done In tn
matters complained Of. the quotation from
The letters written at the time OF my err
rand to the pope, without any Of the facts
| and circumstances related above which
would give those letters their true Charac-
ter or show that they were an angry COM
plant because what he had directed TO be
done had become known-these things, with
the abusive personal Characterization OF my
wife and the assumed indignation with
what had been in fact permitted and en-
Outraged where not expressly directed
seemed TO me to put the letter outside OF
limit Of anything justlhable even in a
stranger. What a sense Of outraged friend.
ship IL aroused In us can perhaps be under
NH hos a A.
small part Of the private correspondence
given above"
In concluding his letter which is dated al
Cincinnati, November. 1896, the former am.
bassador says:
Il write this letter without the knowledg,
Of Archbishop Ireland"
statement by stOrer.
CINCINNATI, Dec S.-When Bellamy
Storer was shown the dispatches from Chi
Cago detailing the substance of his com
muDcauon 10 President Roosevelt. III
said: II have not one word 10 add to IN,
dispatch. 1 merely wish TO state that tn
letter was given to the press without m!
knowledge or consent and against my in
! clinRtion. l may say that all the copie
? of the letter sent out we're clearly market
, private and If the letter was given to tn
: press from the White House my hand
are clean I'm the matter"
! WASHINGTON, Dec S.-NO direct sta te
! ment haaring on the issue raised in Ia