Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-11

Ing but the strongest praise He seems
to have done peculiarly WELL it would
be an injustice of a Migrant kind to
turn him out at the present time 1t is
or course always possible that I may
makemake a shift, and II In doing so
France should become vacant | should
offer 1t to Bellamy at once. unless il
happened that | was able TO offer him a
cabinet position. but as things are
just at this time, do not see the like
lihood Of such n condition arising.
have written with minutest detail, for
! want you to understand exactly how
the thing now stands. Faithfully yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
LETTER FROM IRELAND.
1.-THE president says: The assertion
that | authorized him 10 make such a
statement as ne says he was author
lied to make to the pope Is untrue. |
gave him no such authorization He
omts to note that he himself told
Archbishop Ireland that he had done
so, and the letter of the latter to me.
which ] had quoted, / have ready 10
submit with other letters of what the
president told Archbishop Ireland rela-
tive TO his message through me to the
pope.
He says, and 1t is supported by Mr..
Loeb, that he never received my let
ter reporting In detail my visit to the
vatican That letter was written and
mailed ut Meran, within the Austrian
frontier, after my first stop after leav-
Ing Rome. The date is the fourth or
fifth Of December, 1903 and the letter
Is the one referred to by me In my own
letter 20 the president OF Jan. 10, 1904.
where / say. As l wrote you exactly
what | did and said, you may judge
whether | overstepped.' II Is a pity
the letter in question cannot be found,
1.-THE president charges me with dis
righteousness I'm the matter Of my
resignation In January, 1904, the enc
which was refused by him. and says
that my resignation was based on all
other reason entirely than my going
TO the vatican TO convey his message
and his treatment OF the matter after
ward He had in the strongest terms
already forbidden me to refer to that
matter and already forbidden me TO
quote him again IN reference to It.
1t was therefore quite proper and nat
ural not to speak OF II, but simply
leave It to him to accept my resigna-
ton on any ground at all IL he saw fit.
THE Hurst Incident. In which in
principle / was right, | felt ] had been
NIbllE III utltli, anu was NOT hlIulu
to say so, afforded me a perfect OPP
portunity TO tender my resignation
without again troubling the presidents
susceptibilItles regarding his messages
to Rome. II the word vatican WAS
not mentioned In my letter OF resigna-
ton, the facts were In existence with
In the knowledge of the president all
the same. IL was 1--WE months only
before the renomlnating convention
and | was DESTROYS OF avoiding any
possible embarrassment to Mr.. Roose-
welt IN any way. This now becomes
particular perfidy' on my part in the
view and language of the president OF
the United States. As | have already
said, my original letter Is really an
answer TO everything else contained
In the presidents communication 10 the
press. I ask deliberate Judgment on
II In reply TO whatever he has seen ut
to charge upon me and mine"
MRS. sToRER's CLAIMS.
Chicago, Dec. ll,--A dispatch TO the
Record Herald from Cincinnati says:
MY husband and created President
Roosevelt" said Mrs. Bellamy Storer
last night to representative OF the
Commercial Tribune.
president Roosevelt owes much to-
day TO Mr.. StOTef ana DyseN, sne
continued 1T was through my inhu-
ence that Mr.. Roosevelt was made as
sistant secretary OF the navy, and II
came about in this way:
"Mr.Storer and ! went to Canton to
pay President and Mrs. Mckinley a
visit. | told the president that | was
not there to ask for anything for my
self, but that 1t would be a great per-
sonal favor If he would make Mr.
Roosevelt assistant secretary of the
navy. He at first opposed 1t by saying
that Mr.. Roosevelt was too much OF
fighter, but eventually he granted my
request"
PHILBIN'S DENIAL.
New York. Dec. 10.-Eugene a. Phil
bin, formerly district attorney Of New
York. was named In one of the letters
sent by Mrs. Bethany Storer to Presi-
dent Roosevelt as having been an en-
issary of Rome with a request from the
president TO the pope that Archbishop
Farley of this city be raised to the car
dnalate. Mr.. Philbin was quoted today
as saying:
II will not discuss the matter fur
Their than to brand the statement as a
falsehood. | was never entrusted with