The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-10
dent Mckinley. among them the fol-

myself and others, to promote the ap- pointment of Archbishop Ireland Gas cardinaD. and in the spring of 1899, he commissioned Bishop O'Gorman to say to the pope that that appointment would be considered a personal favor to him, the president, as well as an honor to the country. And this the bishop did, speaking in the presidents name. in personal audience with the pope.
 This statement of Mfr stoter dis torts what was evidently an expression of deep personal regard and respect for an individual into what Is in substance a request for his advancement as member of an ecclesiastical ot ganiza- tion. The late President never made such a request: never furthered the efforts of any one In the bringing would he permit any official of his ad- ministration to do so. He was scrupu- lously particular in this regard. and he made no compromise with his convic- tions on the subject. What I have said regarding the particular quotation above referred to, applies to any other similar reference to the late President in this pamphlet,
 Very sincerely yours. George B. Cortelyou." As for Mir. Storer's assertion that I authorized him to make such a state ment as he says he was authorized to make to the Pope. it is untrue. gave him no such authorization. MT. Storer proceeds to say that he at once wrote me letter giving a full account of his visit to the Vatican, and of the mes sage he personally gave the Pope.
 careful search of the files in my office fails to show any such letter from him; and neither I nor my secre- tary, MT. Loeb. who receives and ex- .1 remembrance of ever receiving such a letter; and had 1t been received we could not fail to remember it. I never received from him any letter giving any such account of his visit to the vatican and his conversation with the Pope as he now says he sent me; :and this is evident from the letters which he gives as written by me to him on December 27 and December 30. in which as you will see, I specifically state that did not know whether or not he had even called at the vatican and that he might merely have seen some car dinal prlvately'--is a statement wholly incompatible with my having received such a letter as that which he says he sent.
 In his answer to this letter he never traversed Of tn any way alluded to this statement of mine, which he could hard ly have failed to do had he already written me such letter as he now describes.
 On December IS T had written him anent a verbal request made to me by an eceIesfastical friend that I should write letter for Archbishop, Ireland. told him, of course, that l could not interfere in such a matter, as it was none of my business who mas made cardinal; that personally l had very strong friendship and admiration for Al. |, g-f,, N,R fvsA txrfH would please, me greatly to see him made naYaInRh aust as E pleased me when Sr satteriee WAS made Bishop of Washington, but that I could no more interfare in one case than in the l other,
 T say that 1neyer received such 1 letter as that which Mir. Storer alleges he wrote me 1 may add that I am by no means certain he ever sent me such l a letter"
 The President then proceeds to ex- tract from Mir. Storer's pamphlet. giv. Ing Mir. Storer's quotation of the Presi- dents letters. These quotations the President follows with verbatim copies of the letters themselves, with the view of showing where his meaning was distorted by interpretations and omissions made by Mir. Storer. The President further quotes letter from Mir. Storer offering to resign in R19O4, which resignation the President at that time, in a friendly letter. refused to | consider. Another letter, referring to the Ambassadors criticism of the5 ad' ministration for dismissing Consul Hurst, was as follows:
 "The White House. washington, D. C.. Dec. S0 1903 My Dear Bellamy: (PersonaL(
 "In my last letter to you, I wrote you as to a report I had heard about your writing q letter concerning the dismissal of Hurst. This came to me from an outside source. and l did not credit 1t. Since then, Secretary Hay has sent me over letter (of yours) to Senator Hanna, which the latter put before the Department with request that he be given information in order to answer you. -. .... NIT. Hay Indignant. Secretary Hay feels, of course. eX- ceedngly indignant over your having written in such a manner to any out slider and feels that there should be some official rebuke. Because of our personal relations, l write in this way { to you instead.
 I hardly think you could have thought exactly what you were writing. You say for instance. about the dismissal of Hurst. T do know the manner of his removal in a way should be ashamed to employ with a common servant. l
 
 case. of more sudden or unexpected action of any administration. 1t may he none of your business nor mine, but know you do not like injustice
 Of course. this amounts to a bitter attack upon the administration of which you are pert. You make charges of a grave nature against the secretary of state and the president under whom Nou are serving
 If these charges were true. that would not. In my opinion. justify you in writing to the senator in such a fashion. As 1t happens they are ahso-s lutely without foundation No case was gone into more carefully than this.
 l have reports before me from Am hassadog Mccormick and from special and trusted agent of the departnent- a man in whose judgment the depart or actiCn was possible in view of these reports.
 T know. my dear Bellamy. that you have not intenced to do anything dis loyal or improper, but surely on think Ing ovar the matter you will see that there would be but one possible con struction to be put on such a letter from you. Think Of the effect if your letter was made public.
 Let me repeat to you that, in ref erence to matters affccting the Catho- lie Church, events have concIusiWaIy shown that while you are Ambassador, ycu must keep absolutely clear of any deed or word in Rome or elsewhere which would seem to difterentiate your position from that of other Amblssa- dors.
 The mere fact of the report in the