The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-12

rounding conditions must be taken into
account Now as TO foreign affairs. My
Catholic just at present would not be
q man whom ii would be wise TO send TO
Germany. For wholly different reasons
II would not be wise 10 send MIN to Italy
| had not thought of or known either
of these facts when / advocated Bellamy
going 10 italy. AS soon as 1 made in
quiries TO the effect both here and
abroad, of appointments 10 Germany and
Italy, | found what the facts were In
no other country would the question OF
Catholicism cause any serious trouble
but / have not the slightest idea wheth-
er any man intends at present TO leave
his position.
Praise for Porter.
"of Porter In France, / hear nothing
but the strongest praise. He seems TO
have done peculiarly well. II would be
an injustice OF a flagrant kind to turn
him out at the present time. 1t is OF
course always possible. that | may make
a shift. and If in doing so France should
become vacant. should offer It 10 Bel
lamy at once. unless IL happened that I
was able TO offer him a Cabinet position:
but as things are just at this time
do not see the likelihood of such condi-
ton arising, l have written with mlnu-
test detail Tor | want you 10 under
stand exactly how the thing now stands.
Faithfully yours
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The President says: The assertion
Suil l authorized MN TO make such
statement as he says he was authorized
70 make 10 the Pope. is untrue. I gave
MIN no such authorization" He omits
TO note tnat he himself told Archbishop
ireland that he had done so and the let
ter or the latter TO me, which l had
quoted, have ready to submit with 9TH
er letters of what the President told
Archbishop Ireland relative TO his mes
sage through me TO the Pope.
AS to Missing Letter.
He nj iS
Loeb. that he never received my letter re-
porting in detail my visit 10 the Vati-
can, That letter was written and mailed
at Meran, within the Austrian frontier.
after my first stop after leaving Rome
The date Is the ith or 5th of December
1903. and the letter is the one referred
dent of January 10, 1904. where I say:
AS / wrote you exactly what l did and
ssaay sa,d; YOU may n y Judge whether I over
ton cannot be found
The President charges me with dis
ingeniousness" in the matter of my resig-
nation in January 1904, the one which
was refused by him. and says that NV
resignation was based on another reason
entirely than my goins to the Vatican
10 convey his message and his treatment
OF the matter afterward. He had in the
strongest terms. already forbidden me 70
refer 70 that matter. and already forbid
den me 10 quote him again in reference
TO 1t. Ii was, therefore quite Droper
leave lt 10 him to accept my resignation
on any ground he chose. or on no ground
at all, II he saw fit.
The Hurst Incident. in which in prin-
ciple / was right. felt | had been wrong
In detail. and was not afraid 10 say so
aHorded me perfect opportunity to ten
der my resignation without again troub-
ling the Presidents susceptibilities re-
garding MS messages 10 Rome. II the
word vatican was not mentioned In
my letter Of resignation. the facts were
in existence within the knowledge of the
President all the same. IL was five
months only before the renominating con-
vention and j was desirous OF avoiding
any possible embarrassment TO Mr..
Roosevelt In any way. This now becomes
particular perndy' on my part. in the
view and language OF the President OF
the United tSates. AS / have already
said, my original letter Is really an an
3wer 10 everything else contained In the
Presidents letter TO the press. / ask
deliberate Judgment OH 1t In reply TO
whatever he has seen fit TO charge upon
me and mine.