The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
BELLAMY STORER ID
 THE FRONT AGAIN
Controversy With Roosevelt Is
 Brought Up Anew
SOME FACTS ARE SHOWN
Mrs. Storer Makes Public Letters of Archbishop Ireland and Roose- welt, Thus Proving What
 She Asserted

Springfield, Mass, September n.-The republican tomorrow will print a letter from Mrs Bellamy Storer, written in France, September s, reviewing the con- troversy between the Storers and Mir Roosevelt concerning the former Presi- dent alleged authorization of the for mer ambassador to Austria Hungary to visit Pope Plus x and ask him as a per- sonal favor to the President of the United States to make Archbishop Ire- land of St. Paul a cardinal.
 Letters written by the archbishop in 1903 and 1904, hitherto unpublished, are quoted by Mrs. Storer to show that at repeated interviews in the White House between the archbishop and the Presi- dent, Mr. Roosevelt acknowledged that he had commissioned MT. Storer to act as his personal envoy at the vatican in behalf of the archbishop. MT. Roosevelt has hitherto publicly denied that MT Storer was ever authorized to represent him in this manner and the Ireland let ters now published by Mrs. Storer have the effect of making much sharper the issue of veracity between the Storers and the ex-President.
 Mrs. Storer's letter to the Republican also seeks to prove on the testimony of Archbishop Ireland that President Roose- welt promised to make Storer United States ambassador either at Paris or London and there is included still an- other letter alleged to have been written by MT. Roosevelt to MT. Storer, just after the presidential election in 1896, in which Afx. n .1~r President-ele Mckinley and urge him to appoint MT. Roosevelt Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy. This last letter seems to refute aA>recent a assertion that MT. Roosevelt never sought a public office except when he sought a presidential nomination in 1904.
 The first letter by Archbishop Ireland quoted by Mrs. Storer. written to MT. Storer, November 3, 1901, is in part as follows:
 T have had two most pleasant meet ings with the President at the White House. He is decidedly your friend and resolved to give you the best there is, 'even,' said he if Berlin comes first and Bellamy wished it for little while, pending Choate's retention in London, would give 1t to him and change him shortly afterward to London. Let him trust me-
 The next Ireland letter, dated October 23 1903, was written to Mrs. Storer in part as follows:
 q was in Washington last week, and, of course, saw the President. I spoke with him of Paris and removed from hls mind all suspicion that Catholic would be there a persona non grata' as ann bassador. He promised me that the next ambassador to Paris would be MT. Storer and Furthermore expressed the belief that General Porter would soon retire. The President alsto told me that he had com missioned MT Storer to speak for him viva voca at the vatican. He seemed rather proud of having done so." On February 2, 1904, the archbishop wrote to Mr. Storer:
 Your two letters were read and burnt. I% However you need have no anxi- ety whatever about the whole affair which was the chief subject matter of those letters The President had no occasion, to feel ruffled in the least, but you know his impulsiveness. When saw him he, of his own accord, told me of his writing to you, and asked me how publicity was given to the mat ter. .
 ." I said the Scripps- -McRea agency had merely made a guess Gas to MT. Storer's coming to Rome) and that the few unfavorable comments that followed amounted to really noth- ing.
 'He calmed down completely, remarked that he had every confidence in you and hoped that the outcome of your mission would be what all desired"
 MT. Roosevelt's letter to MT. Storer, dated November r, 1896, converting the desired appointment as assistant secre- tary of the navy was as follows:
 Dear Bellamy-I have been thinking over that business and now will you let me write perfectly frankly? If you care to say anything for me, old fellow. I think you could say 1t better good deal If I we're away. So unless you think to the contrary. or unless there is some reason for a change, I believe that it would be best for me to come and dine with you, and then you see Mo Knley by yourself if you care to do so at all, which I earnestly hope you will. Give my best love to Mrs. Storer.
 "Faithfully yours.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
 "P. S.-I hope you won't think this impertinent. I should rather have you speak in my behalf than any one in the United States and I think you could do most good, but I rather hate to go there with you, for somehow 1t does not seem to me that it would be a good thing to speak for me before me.
 "T.R."
 The resignation of Bellamy Storer as ambassador to Austria Hungary was transmitted to Washington on March ', 1906, and was accepted. His resigna- tion was requested by the state depart ment and 1t later developed that serious differences had arisen between Presi- dent Roosevelt and the ambassador, primarily because the latter had failed to arrange communication from the president The communication enclosed letter to Mrs :, Storer calling upon her to give a written promise not to in- terfere in vatican politics