The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-10
eminent, addressed to Count G~Oluchowski:

ernment addressed TO count GolucnOWskl:
/ have the honor to advise your Excellency
that the President has been pleased to ter
inmate at once. and without any such delay
"a would be incident TO the transmission Of a
letter of recall by mail. the authority OF his
Ambassador. Mr.. Bellamy Storer. to represent
him. The President has accordingly recalled
Mr.. Storer, whose representative functions
have already ceased. This action will be
supplemented by a formal letter OF recall
which already has been signed and will be
presented to you in accordace with former
custom in such matters. The Secretary
OF Embassy at Vienna. Mr.. q. r. Rives. has
been named Charge d'Afaires. l request
your. Excellency TO receive him and treat
with him in that capacity.
This telegram, sent as IL in an emergency,
and apparently to meet the danger into
which l might plunge the Government by
holding myself out at Vienna for a few
days longer as clothed with the authority
of an Ambassador, is unprecedented, so far
as l I'm aware, in diplomatic usage.
NO INTERFERENCE By MRS. o IN
FRENCH POLITICS.
No reason for my summary discharge
was vouchsafed me, nor was any given out
In any responsible way. Newspaper cor
respondents in Washington published state
ments obtained from sources TO which they
had access, saying that it was because Of my
w1fe's interference" in affairs of the Roman
Catholic Church., and her misuse Of letters
from the President, but nothing appeared
in such a way that l could answer il. l
later learned indirectly that the President
was making another charge against Mrs.
Storer, this being that she had meddled
with French politics by taking part in an
anti Republican intrigue to promote the
marriage OF Victor ~Bonsparte with a MEM
Der Of the Orleanist family. This charge
the President evidently repeated to MEM
bers OF his Cabinet, for one Of them has
lately referred to it, and has said that he
had been given to understand that the
French Ambassador in Washington was
the authority for it. The accusation was
absolutely false. Neither Mrs. Storer nor
/ had ever been parties to any such plan, or
had any sympathy with il, or any knowl-
edge Of its existence beyond what was
rumored in the newspapers. Had that
charge been seasonably brought to my
notice, as l venture TO say should nave been
done before giving it credence, we could
nave proved at once it's absolute untruth.
In order TO fix, II possible, the authority
for the false charge, Mrs. Storer applied
in July last to the French Ambassador,
and ] give a copy Of his reply:
N. Jusserand to Mrs. stOrer.
RUE HAMELIN. eth July. 1909.
i DEAR MRS. SToRER | have received your
lette r informing me that through different
sources in America you have heard me quoted
as the authority for a statement according
to which you have int crest ed yourself in
Prince Victor Napoleon and the Imperialist
party in France. You ask me from what
source l may have derived such a story.
l have only this to say The stat e ment
IL entirely false; I have never said to
any one what your informants are pleased
to attribute to me. l never connected
you In any fashion whatsoever. by word OF
mouth or otherwise. with Prince Victor aud
his party, nor ever said anything which could
be construed as having any such meaning.
l am as surprised at your correspondents
statements as you may have been. and |
thank you for having given ne this oppor-
tunity OF most emphatically denying them.
I have the honor to be. dear Mrs. Storer.
Very sincerely yours. JUss ERAND.
Finally, in order 70 elicit some definite
statement OF the charges against mo, I sent
TO the Secretary Of State on June % the
following letter:
Mr.. stOrer TO Secretary Root.
June %, 1905.
To the Hon. Eihu Root. Secretary Of stat.
Washington:
SIR-YOur telegram announcing 10 me my
removal from o~flce-without reference 10
my resignation previously fo~rwarded-and
your letter acknowledging the receipt of my
resignation. were accompanied by no explain
alton or reason for this action of the Depart
ment.
After some necessary uncertainty as to my
plans. ] find my return TO the United States
will he delayed for a month or more. I
therefore address you by letter, believing that
| am entitled to have exactly the reasons both
Of the Presidents wish TO remove me
from the service and Of the manner in which
this removal was effected. | request that |
he informed OF the grounds of both. by the
Department In writing.
This ] ask may he given me
in as full detail as possible. NV address il
care Morgan, Harjes \ Co, Paris. Your
obi. servant, BELLAMY STORER.
To this received the following reply:
Assistant Secretary Bacon to Mr. ~ orer
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WASHINGTON, July IL, 1905.
SIR: In reply 20 your letter az lima IN \