The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
STORER VS.
 ROOSEVELT Sends Hot Letter to
 Executive. COMPLAINS OF TREATMENT Declares President Was InconSis- tent in Dismissing Him. The Former Italian Ambassador Was Instructed by Inference to
 work for Archbishop Ire-
 land at the vatican.

day says that an extraordinary letter has been addressed by Bellamy Storer to President Roosevelt and members Of his cabinet in regard to his dismiss sal from the post of Ambassador ot the United States to Austria Hungary
 Mr. Storer was dismissed because or | his wife's supposed interference in aI- fairs of the Roman Catholic Church | and her alleged misuse of letters from the President It was also charged | that Mrs Storer. had meddled with | French politics by taking part in anti Republican intrigue to promote the | marriage of Victor Bonaparte with a member of the Orleanist family
 Both of these charges Mir. Storer denies and, on the other hand. declares that the Presidents interest in the se- lection of Archbishop Ireland as Cardinal was not due to Storer or to Storer's wife, but to the Presldent alone.
 The text of MT. Storer's letter was printed and transmitted not only to President and his cabinet, but to mem bers of the Foreign Relations commit tee of the Senate.
 MT. Storer says that his removal ln so summary a manner suddenly dis missed him from an office which he had been given reason to believe he nad filled to the satisfaction both Of his own government and that to Whlen ne was accredited, and being accompanies by no public explanation exposed am to suspicious and injurious conJectures such as must naturally arise when man in public office Is abruptly 1is- missed by his government Witn what is obviously intended to be discredit'
 Families Were Intimate.
 The correspondence shows the Tamil far relations of the President and the storers from the time Mir. hooseVeIe was Governor of New York until Just after the Spanish war. Some or the Roosevelt letters to storsr were aa- dressed My dear Bellanly" and to his ~igs ss6v dear Maria" and Mrs. st0rer addressed inc President as "dear Iheo-
 gterer asserts that honseyet | hInself while Governor cf New forK urged the Storers to use their iniiu- l s5ee win tlle Vatican for Ireland's pro- 1 motion, believing the pfelates vel | irnnvtn patriotism would aid In solving Inc problems connected wlth the Sath- 1 oIic church in the Philippines. Ihe later letters of MT. Roosevelt as F~es- | idert are published- evidently to show | inc Presidents alleged inconsistency One letter of the President to MITE | Storer. dated December Il, 1905, after | inc efforts of the Storers, in behalt or l Archbishop Ireland, began to attract attention, contains the following pas sages: .,.,.4 os ! and reflections upon my own personaA | conduct give me no concern put am | very gravely concerned at the mls- | chievous effect your letters must nave | in mfsrepresenting the position or rue | United States Government ana py LhS 1 far-reaching governmental seaman 1 vour tndiscretion may at any time 1 cause -. .o- "Your letters not only convey to- tally wrong impression of my atu- 1 tude. hut they sA% such as you have no business whatever to Write' Tn we" VI | the position of your husband In the 1 diplomatic service.
 ! Merry del VaI's Rebuke.
 "rrhe letter of Cardinal Merry del Val to vo1I. of November 2S, is re- | hnke to YOU. expressing plainly his be- lief that you have been %,warrantapiy
 oficious in matters with whlch you | have properly no concern IL shoulu
 of itself be enough to show you now 1 exceedingly unwise and improper your action in writing to him was
 1 "I am indignant that he wife or an
 Ar,bassador in the United States ser vice should have written such letter.
 should have given the impression un- l anubtedIy conveyed in that letter anu should have incurred such a reouke.
 "You do not seem to realize that 1t is out of the question for me knowing
 Iv to permit the wife of one of our l
 trigues to influence the vatican.
 After referring to the report that Mrs. Storer was known in Europe as | the American Ambassadress to Rome' Mir. Roosevelt closes thus:
 l "I must ask you to give me this posi- tive promise in writing if Bellamy IS | to continue m the service and IT you even unintentionally violate 1t, l snail
 have to ask for BelIamy's resignation
 for I can no longer afford to have the 1 chance of scandal being bought on the | entire American diplomatic service anu
 on the Government itself by such in-
 discreet and ill-advised action as yours | has been.'
 stOrer's Indignation.
 CT cannot trust myself to express ! fully the feeling of indignation win
 +ybicb read the letter to Mrs. Storer,"
 says Mir Storcr.
 "Though < was in the public serVlce' 1 felt. and still feel, that l had lost
 none of the rights which a man mas
 to judge of the prOpriety of letters ao-
 dressed to his wife and to resent an l improper communication
 .I did not then know what I have since learned, that the letter was not even written for my wifes eyes or mine alone, but had been shown to oth- CTS before 1t was sent, and. thus used to make a ease against lady, trust ing friend, who could not De hearo III her own defense.
 Ny wife was deliberately accused of having quoted isolated sentences from inc presidents letters to convince other persons that he was doing eX- actly what, as he asserts; ne naa ,',H,, eH, lplicitlv stated in Will'"B ''a' "' "''''
 sTnis charge of shameful conduct was based on no evidence which could even have mislcd the writer into d lbastv Judgment. but was Tn answer to s+ least furnishes no such evidence eithcr in itself or Tn It's closures.
 Omits specific Things.
 "The tone of long suffering outraE- cd paticucc the careful omission of aIl mention of anything tbat the writer lbsd himself done and authorized to be done in the matters complained of the quotation from the letters written at