New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-12
BELLAMY SToRER GIVES OUT
LETTERS ON THE IRELAND
VATICAN IMBROGLlo.
SCORES PRESIDENT
FOR HIS DISMISSAL
Letters Of Executive as Proof That
He Was Interested in Movement
to Make Preiate a Cardinaj-En-
voy's Wife Scored.

| 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
| 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 a 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 alb
I action taken.
When he wrote for an explanation
| of his. removal he received 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 a manner suddenly,
I 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 nce 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"
MI. StOrer asserts that Roosevelt
| himself while governor of New York,
urged the Storers to use their inf1u-
ence with the Vatican for Ireland's
promotion, believing the prelate's
Wellknown patriotism would aid in
solving the problems connected with
| the Catholic church in the Philip
| pines. The latter letters of Mr..
Roosevelt as president 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 I am very gravely concerned at
the mischievous effect your letters
must have in misrepresenting the po-
sition of the United States govern
ment, and by the far-reaching gov
ernmental scandal your indiscretions
may at any time cause
| Had No Business to Write So.
Your letters not only convey
! 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
in the diplomatic service
"The letter of Cardinal Merry del
Val to you of November 20 is re-
belief that you have been unwar-
rantably oficious in matters with
which you have properly no concern
1t should of itself be enough to show
you how exceedingly unwise and i'm
proper your action in writing to him
was.
Il am indignant that the wife of
an ambassador in the United States
service should have written such a
letter, should have given the i'm
/ preston absolutely conveyed in that
letter, and should have incurred such
| rebuke."
Makes Threat of Dismissal
After referring to the report that
Mrs. Storer was known in Europe as
the American ambassadress to Rome,
Mr.. Roosevelt closes thus:
Il must ask you to give me this
| positive promise in writing if Bell
amy is to continue in the service and
if you even unintentionally violate it
shall have to ask for Bellamy's res
ignation, for can no longer afford
j to have the chance of scandal being
brought upon the entire American
/ diplomatic service and on the govern
l aorof off H,1yc :1Y