The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
PRESIDENT TELLS
 THE WHOLE STORY Storer Would Not Answer His
 Official Letters MRS. ST0RER IN POLITICS Roosevelt Says Ambassadors Dis n,issaI Was Justified on Two Counts and Replies to Conf
 dential Pamphlet.
MRS. STORER IN POLITICS

Washington, December 9.--President Roosevelt tonight made public a long let ter addressed to Secretary Root, giving correspondence between the President and former Ambassador Bellamy storer at Vienna. and Mrs. Storer, in which he says that MT. Storers refusal to answer his letters. and the publication of various private letters, justified the ambassadors removal; that MT. Storers publication or private correspondence was peculiarly un- gentlemanly, and that he dhe PresidenD, had stated with absolute clearness his po- sition and the reason why it was out Of the question for him as President to try to get any archbishop made cardinal, though expressing his admiration Tor Archbishop Ireland as well as leaders of other denominations
 He says he thinks it well that the members of the cabinet should know cer- tain facts which he (Storer), either sup presses or fnisstates." He says he did not resent the action of the Storers until it became evident they were likely to dam- age American interests
 He says Mrs. Storer urged him to give her husband cabinet place, and that sine stated Mir Choate at London, and General Porter at Paris. were not proper persons to be ambassadors, suggesting her hus- band in that connection.
 The President incorporates letter from Postmaster General Cortelyou, con- tradieting the statement that President Mckinley had commissioned gentleman to ask the Pope 'as a personal favor to him' and as "an honor to the coun- try to appoint Archbishop Ireland as cardinal. MT. Cortelyou says the late President never made any such request. The President declares that MT. Stcrers statement that he authorized any such message to be delivered to Pope Plus, Is untrue He says that he never received letter from Ambassador Storer giving an account of his visit to the vatican, and of the message he personally gave the Pope on behalf of MT. Roosevelt.
 The Presidents action tonight follows the publication of the "confidential pam phlet' which MT. Storer last week sent to the President the cabinet and the Sen- ate foreign relations committed
 Writes to Root
 "The White House, Washington, D. C., December 3. 1906.
 My Dear MT. Root:-In view of the fact that MT. Bellamy Storer has sent to each member of my cabinet, as well as to myself a pamphlet under date Of November 1906 purportlng to give an ac- count of those relations of his with me which led up to his removal from the position of Ambassador at Vienna. I think it as well that you and the other mem bers of the cabinet should know cer- tain facts which he either suppresses or nisstates As to the necessity of re- Ia I there is no need of discussion.
 An ambassador who refuses to answer the letters of the President cannot remain an ambassador. His statement that my letters to him were of such character that he could not answer them needs no further comment than to point out that in such cases it was his clear duty in- stantly to resign. His publication of the various private letters between his wife and himself, and me. would furnish any additional justification were such need ed for his summary separation from the service. He does not give the state de- partment's final letter to him which runs as follows
 Final Letter to Storer.
 "'September 10, 1906. "'Hon Bellamy Storer, Paris. France: 'Sir-Your letter of August does not require any comment as whole, but by direction of the President answer 1t as regards one point
 "'You assume that in the letter of De- eember Il the President wrote you not as an official of the United States, put a purely personal and private letter, and you state that this letter shows on it's face that no answer from you was asked for, suggested or expected.
 It is hard to understand your making such a statement in view of the fact that the letter you quote derives it's entire importance from the accompanying letter. which you were asked to read and hand to Mrs. Storer. in which Mrs. Storer was informed that unless she took certain definite action your connection with the diplomatic service would have to be sev- cred. It is, of course unnecessary to dis cuss and it ought to be unnecessary to allude to any proposition so absurd as that this severance of you from the ser vice would be asked for not by the Pres ident as President, but in his private ca pacity.
 The President was anxious to treat you and Mrs Storer with the utmost gen. tleness and consideration, and it seemed to him that his end could be achieved in the way easiest for you by following the course which he actually did follow. The letter to Mrs. Storer. of course, be- came part of the matter of which you were required to take cogniZance. In 1t Mrs. Storer was asked to fulfill certain conditions. failure to fulfill which would require she was informed, your sever ance from the service, which conditions she never fulfilled You were requested to read this letter and hand it to her. It Is difficult to stigmatize merely as folly the proposition that under the conditions the Presidents letter required no answer. "T have the honor to be. sir. your obedient servant,
 ROBERT BACON,
 "'Acting Secretary
 
 'It is never pleasant to have to dis cuss personal affairs, or to quote or ex- plain from personal correspondence; which is one reason why it is held to be peculiarly ungentlemanly thing to pub fish private correspondence. But as MT. Storer, in his extraordinary pamphlet, prints various letters written by himself, by me and by Mrs. Storer, l shall set forth briefly the facts of the case, giving certain letters which are necessary in or der to understand clearly those which he prints.
 T first met the Storers while I was civil service commissioner, and he had