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EX-4MBASSADOR IN
RACE R Ct; At ROOSEVELT ]
eELIAmY sToRER GIVES OUT
LETTERS ON THE IRELAND
~ VATICAN. IMBRoGLIo.
SCORES PRESIDENT
* FOR HIS DISMISSAL
Letters Of Executive as Proof That
He Was interested in Movement
to Make Prelate cardinaI-En.
voy's Wife Scored.

Storer, former ambassador TO AUS
tria, has stirred up mess In the
capital by the publication of his cor
respondence with President Roose.
welt over the alleged intrigue of the
ambassador and his wife with the
Vatican authorities with the purpose
of making Archbishop Ireland car
dinal Mr.. Storer severely scores
the president for dismissing him from
the diplomatic service, Copies of
Mr. Storers letter and the CORE
spondence are sent to the president,
members of the cabinet and the for
eign affairs committee of the SEN
ate.
Suddenly Dismissed Last March.
Mr.. Storer begins the letter by ex-
planning that on March 20 last he re-
ceived cablegram from the state de-
partment saying he was removed
from his Office as ambassador of
the United States to Austria Hungary.
This cablegram was received by him
while i'll in Egypt on leave of abb
sence and discIosed no reason for the
action taken.
When he wrote for an explanation
of his removal he received a reply
written by Assistant Secretary Of
State Bacon, by direction, as he
stated, of the president, to the effect
that he was removed because he had
failed to answer two letters and a
telegram sent to him by the presi-'
dent.
Mr.. Storer says that his removal
in so summary manner suddenly
dismissed him from an Office which
he had been given reason to believe
he had, filled to the satisfaction Of
both his government and of that to
which he was accredited, and, being
accompanied by no public explana-
ton, exposed him to suspicious and
injurious conjectures such as most
naturally arise when man in public
Office is abruptly dismissed by his
government with what is obviously
intended to be discredit
Addressed Her as "My Dear Maria"
The correspond ence shows the ia
miliar relations of the president and
the Storers from the time Mr.. Roose-
welt was governor of New York, just
after the Spanish war. Some of the
Roosevelt letters to Storer were adj
dressed my dear Bellamy," and to
his wife, my Dear Maria" and Mrs.
Storer addressed the president as
Dear Theodore"
Mr. Storer asserts that Roosevelt
himself while governor of New York,
urged the Storers to use their influ-
ence with the Vatican for ireland S
promotion, believing the prelate's
well-known patriotism would aid in
solving the problems connected with
the Catholic church in the Philip
pines. The latter letters of Mr..
Roosevelt as presid ent are published
evidently to show the presidents In
consistency.
One letter of the president to Mrs.
Storer, dated December II, 1905, aft
er the efforts of the Storers in behalf
of Archbishop Ireland began to at
tract attention, contained the follow
ing passages:
Your direct or implied complaint
of and rejecting upon my own per-
sonal conduct give me no concern,
but am very gravely concerned at
the mischievous effect your letters
must have In misrepresenting the pss
sition of the United States govern
ment, and by the far-reaching gov
ornamental scandal your indiscretions
may at any time cause.
Had No Business to Write So.
Your letters not only convey a
totally wrong impression of my atti-
tude, but they are such as you have
no business whatever to write, in
view of the position of your husband
ia the diplomatic service.
The letter of Cardinal Merry del
vaf to you of November % is a re.
buke to you, expressing plainly his
belief that you have been unwar
rantably otficious In matters with
which you have properly no concern
1t should of itself be enough to show
you how exceedingly eunwise and i'm
proper your action in writing to hin
was.
Il am Indignant that the wife Of
AN ambassador in the United States
service should have written such a
jetter, should have given the i'm
preston absolutely conveyed In thai
letter, and should have incurred suct
a rebuke."
Makes Threat of Dismissal.
After referring to the report thai
Mrs. Storer was known in Europe as
the American ambassadress to Rome
Mr.. Roosevelt closes thus:
II must ask you to give me this
positive promise in writing IL Bell
amy is to continue in the service ant
if you even unintentionally violate i
j shall have to ask for Bellamy's res
tgnation, for can no longer affort
TO have the chance of scandal beint
brought upon the entire American
diplomatic service and on the govern
ment itself by such indiscreet and i'll
advised action as yours has BEEN"
200 Die as Ship Blows Up.
Victoria, B. c., Dec. l0.-Twe hun
dred lives were lost in the destruc
ton of the Russian steamship varya
gen, which was blown up by float
ing mine recently off Cape Manchuria
according to passengers from the ORR