Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08

lenses, OF which she had not been
guilty.
CHICAGO, December S.-The Chicago
Tribune, in its Washington dispatches to-
day, says that an extraordinary letter has
been addressed by Bellamy Storer to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the members of his
cabinet in regard to his dismissal from the
post of ambassador of the United States
to Austria Hungary.
Mr. Storer was dismissed because of his
wifes supposed interference in affairs of
the Roman Catholic Church and her alleged
misuse of letters from the President 1t
was also charged that Mrs. Storer had
meddled with French politics by taking
part in an anti-republican intrigue to pro-
mote the marriage of Victor Bonaparte
with a member of the Orleanist family.
Both of these charges Mr. Storer denies,
and, on the other hand, declares that the
Presidents interest in the selection OF
Archbishop Ireland as a cardinal was not
the President alone.
The text of Mr.. Storers letter was printed
and transmitted not only to the President
and members of his cabinet. but to MEM
hers of the foreign relations committee Of
the Senate.
Mr.. Storer's Statement.
Mr.. Storer says that his removal in SO
summary a manner suddenly dismissed him
from an office which he had been given
reason to believe he had filled to the salts
faction both of his own government and Of
that to which he was accredited. and being
accompanied by no public explanation, ex-
posed him to suspicious and injurious con-
lectures such as must naturally arise when
a man in public office is abruptly dismissed
nv his government with what is obviously
intended to be discredit.
The correspondence shows the familiar re-
lations of the President and the Storers
from the time Mr.. Roosevelt was governor
Of New York just after the Spanish war.
Some of the Roosevelt letters to Storer were
addressed my dear Bel, amy and to his
wife, MY dear Maria" and Mrs Storer adj
dressed the President as Dear Theodore"
Mr. Storer asserts that Roosevelt himself,
while governor of New York, urged the
Storers to use their influence with the Vat
lean for Irelands promotion, believing the
prelate's well known patriotism would aid
in solving the problems connected with the
Catholic Church in the Philippines. The
later letters of Mr.. Roosevelt President
arc published, evidently to show the Presi-
dents alleged Inconsistency.
Far Reaching Indiscretion.
One letter of the President to Mrs Storer
dated December IL. 1885, after the efforts of
the Storers in behalf of Archbishop Ireland
began to attract attention. contains the fol-
lowing passages:
Your direct or implied complaint of any
reflections upon my own personal conduct
give me no concern, but l am very gravely
concerned at the mischievous effect your
letters must have in misrepresenting the
position of the United States government
and by the far-reaching governmental scan
dial 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 whatever
to write, in view of the position of your
husband. in the diplomatic service
A Cardinals Letter.
THE letter of Cardinal Merry Del Val
to you of November % is a rebuke to you.
expressing plainly his belief that you have
been unwarrantably ofiicious in matters
with which you have properly no concern.
1t should of itself be enough to show you
how exceedingly unwise and improper your
action IN writing to him was.
II am indignant that the wife OF an am
bassador In the United States service
should have written such a letter should
have given the impression undoubtedly con-