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Dismissed, Re Says, Because
He Resented an Attack
on His Wife.
PLAN TO PROMOTE IRELAND
Roosevelt, Says the Ambassador,
First Urged Him to Appeal.
to Pope.

me Deposed Ambassador Makes Public
Roosevelt Letters 10 Him n TO Mrs.
storer-visited the Pope on Behalf OF
the Archbishop Of 81. Paul. but Only.
lie Says. on ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Letters, First 10 Dear Maria, - Closed
With One Demanding Her Written
Promise 90 Keep Out Of Ecciesiasticai
Poliucs-Didn Get II and Thereupon
Cabied Order Diminishing Her Husband.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-In a long state
ment addressed to the President, his Cabi-
net and the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs Bellamy Storer, who was deposed
as United States Ambassador at Vienna,
gives what he declares is a full account Of
the incidents and correspondence which
preceded his removal.
Mr.. Storer was recalled because he failed
70 answer a communication from the Presi-
dent. The communication enclosed a letter
to Mrs. Storer calling upon her to give a
written promise not to interfere in Vatican
politics. Mr.. Storer resented the letter, he
says, as an improper communication"
The full statement follows:
To THE PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF
HIS CABINET: On March 20, 1903, l re-
ceived by cable a telegram from the State
Department, saying that 1 was removed
from my Office as Ambassador of the United
States to Austria Hungary. This telegram
was received by me while i'll in Egypt, on
leave OF absence granted by the State
Department, and IL disclosed no reasons
for the action taken. When I could con-
veniently address the Department / wrote
to ask for what reason | had been removed,
and I received a reply, written by the Assist
ant Secretary of State, by direction, as he
stated, OF the President, TO the effect that I
was removed because had failed to answer
two letters and a telegram sent TO me by
the President.
My removal in so summary a manner
has suddenly dismissed me from an Office
which I had been given reason TO believe
I had filed TO the satisfaction both Of my
own Government and of that to which I
was accredited, and, being accompanied
by no public explanation, il has exposed
me 70 suspicious and injurious conjectures
such as must naturally arise when a man
in public Office is abruptly dismissed by
his Government with what is obviously in
tended 10 be discredit.
In this situation l think il right TO make
a full statement which will enable impair
tial persons to pass a candle judgment on
my official conduct, and this statement |
submit 10 the President and the members
OF his Cabinet.
II would be plainly impossible for me
10 discuss the charge that / nave left unan-
swered letters which I should rave answered
without going into the contents Of the
letters referred to so far az 10 explain my
action, and this will involve some history
OF matters which preceded those letters
and without which they cannot be under
stood. Those matters may seem to he
largely private and personal to me and TO the
President, and | on my part, have certainly
SO regarded them. and / am reluctant
for that reason 20 go into them even now.
But Il will appear that personal and official
matters have been inextricably confused
Though not by mel and | certainly cannot be
expected to refrain now from discussing
anything on the ground that it il private
and personal. if this very thing has been
treated as official by the Government in
passing upon my conduct in Office. I
must insist, therefore, that it is not l
Who am responsible for a situation
in which some narrative of per-
sonal matters, distasteful as il is. is
now forced upon me. ! certainly shall not
20 into those things further than seems
necessary. l may premise that both Mrs.
Storer and ! were on terms of close, and,
as we believed, sfectionate personal init
macy with Mr.. Roosevelt, and for more
than ten years have been in the habit of
exchanging with him frequently letters
written on both sides with the greatest
unreserve on both private and public
matter. Without this explanation the
situation cannot be understood. l do not
intend, however, TO use Mr.. Roosevelt's
letters, which are numerous, except 30
far az they bear upon the subject which |
am now forced to discuss, though they are
open TO the fullest inspection if the Presi-
dent 40 desires.
In 1897 I was appointed by President Nc
Kinley 70 be Minister TO Belgium, and in
April, 1899, 70 be Minister TO Spain. Perhaps
I NAV be allowed TO add, as bearing on
the treatment that | was entitled to eX-
pect at subsequent stages of my diplo-
matte service, that my work in Madrid,
coming as il did at the end Of our war with
Spain, and including the negotiation Of a
new treaty, was arduous and responsible,
and was so performed as to draw out en-
phatic commentator from President Nc
Klnley and Mr.. Hay.
venture to quote in this connection
from a letter written TO me by Secretary
Hay on December ~. 1901. referring = my
work at Madrid, as follows:
OF course it would be needless for me to
say anything in regard to the very high ap-
probation I have Of your ability and work.
/ can think Of no one who could adequately
replace you, and Of course II would he I'M
pertinent in the ca Sc Of such close friends
IS yourself and the President for me IN tell
Won how highly he values you. Very
sincerely yours, JOHN HAY.
LETTERS HE WAS AccUsED or IGNORING.
The letters which I am charged with i'm
properly leaving unanswered referred to
acts alleged to have been done by me or
rather by my wife. in connection with the
Roman Catholic Church, of which we are
both members. Before discussing those
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