El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
DEAR MARIA GIVES
TMORE LETTERS
Archbishop Ireland Con
firms Statement Storer
Acted for Roosevelt.

Springfield, Mass, Sept. 22.-The
! Republican prints a letter from Mrs
| Bellamy Storer, written in France
| September 6, reviewing the controVer-
| sy between the Storers and Col Roose-
Welt concerning the former presidents
| alleged authorization of the former
ambassador to Austria-Hungary to
visi5 the pope and ask as a personal
favor to the president of the United
States to make archbishop Ireland. of
| st. Paul, a cardinal.
| Letters written by the archbishop in
! 1908 and in 1904 hitherto unpublished.
are quoted by Mrs. Storer to show that
J at repeated interviews in the white
| house between the archbishop and the
| president, Mr. Roosevelt acknowledge
| ed that he had commissioned Mr..
| Storer to act as his personal envoy at
| the vatican in behalf of the archbishop.
Mr.. Roosevelt has hitherto publicly
denied that Mr.. Storer was ever au-
| thorized to represent him in this man
ner and the Ireland letters now pub
lished by Mrs Storer have the effect
of making much sharper the issue of
veracity between the Storers and the
eXpreSident.
The resignation of Bethany Storer,
ambassador to Austria-Hungary was
transmitted to Washington on March
Z, 1906, and was accepted. His resig-
nation was requested by the state de-
partment, and it later developed that
serious differences had arisen between
president Roosevelt and the ambassa-
dor, primarily because the latter had
failed to answer a communication from
the president The communication en-
closed a letter to Mrs. Storer calling
upon her to give written promises not
to Interfere in vatican nnlifiPS
The Letters.
The first letter by archbishop Ire
land quoted by Mrs. Storer, written to
Mr.. StOrer November 5, 1901, is in part
as follows:
Il 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 a lit
tie while, pending Choate's retention |
change him shortly afterward to Lon
don Let him trust me-"
The next letter dated October %, |
1893, was written to Mrs. Storer in part |
as follows:
I was in Washington last week and. |
of course, saw the president 1 spoke |
with him of Paris and removed from |
ms mind all suspicion that a Catholic |
would be there a persona non grata |
as ambassador. He promised me that |
the next ambassador to Paris would |
be Mr.. Storer and furthermore ex- |
pressed the belief that general Porter |
would soon retire. The president also |
told me that he had commissioned Mr.. |
Storer to speak for him viva voce at
the vatican. He seemer rather proud |
of having done So"
On Feb. 2, 1904. the archbishop wrote |
to Mr.. Storer:
our letters were read and burned.
However, you need have no anxiety |
whatever about the whole affair. which
was the chief subject matter of those !
letters. The president had no occa- |
sion TO feel ruffled in the least. but !
you know his impulsiveness. When 1 /
saw him, he of his own accord. told
me of his writing to you, and asked /
me how publicity was given to the
matter l said the Scripps- McRea |
agency had merely made a guess Gas
to Mr.. Storers coming to Rome) and
that the few unfavorable comments
that followed amounted to really moth
ing. He Gained down completely, re-
marked that he had real confidence
IN you, and hoped that the outcome
Of your mission would be what ali de-
sired
Roosevelt Quoted
A month later archbishop Ireland |
wrote another letter in which he quot
ed the exact words of the president az |