i and i £ 7 = 3 i tied from mo other ambas- bis wife, and I did uot re actions until It became evl- that they were likely to damage meriéan Interests. Mrs. Storer |g- sisted to mie often that their change 8 remngral; that Mr. ior creed had proved a deadly blow to ition of ly de “career and tliey were | i : : 1] g » | vulleriug for « fuce's sake. | sc cepted this » alemprent as true, and it Eve me 8 certain chivalric feeling suppresses or misstates.” Fe says he s “uatil It became evident they Were likely to damage American Interseta” untrue. He says that he never re & letter from Ambassador Stor. ring au sccount of his visit te the atican and of the message he person- gave the pope on behalf of Mr. elt The president's attion last night fol. lows the publication of “the confiden- tial pamphlet” which Mr. Storer last Dear Mr. Root—In view of the at Mr. Bellamy Storer bas sent member of my cabinet as well a pamphlet under date purporting to give relations of his to kis removal ambassador at ell that you and of the cabinet an facta~which he migstates, As to : f i £ is ERE 2d] I 22 ¢ a If bl j Summary separation from the service He does. nol give the state depart ment’s Bnal letter to bim, which runs as follows: |“ Mon. Bellamy Storer, Paris, France: “Your Jetter of Aug 8 does not re- quire any cos t as & whole, but by of the president I answer it one polat. You assume that Tetler of Dec. 11 the president You not as one official of tha nit tes to another, but a purely and private letter, and you t thi letter shows on Its face , : iis nd to understand your mak. statement In view of the that the letter you quote derives its entire importance from the acco letter, w fulfil certain con. to fail which would informed, your sev. cond he 1 ought to'do what I could to help then aud be as patiefit as possible {with them. = “Under Presidant McKinley Ar. was made Minister frst to Bel- time of my accesdlon 10 the vice presi- dency I wrote at President McKinley's request to Mr. or Mrs. Storer that the president desired me to say that Mr Storer was ultimately to be made an Ambassador. Mr. and Mrs Storer the subject 1 was governor of New York ; “Not belug president myself and not having thought out with clearuess the exact situation, 1 asked President Mo Kinley whether he could properly do anything to help Archbishop Ireland He responded that It was not a mat ter with which he could with propriety Interfere, although le expressed him- sell as having the same high opinion of the archbishop that I bad. 1 had a furiier conversation with the preal- dent ou the subject, either just before or just after wy election as vice presi: dent, in which he stated what he felt Was the proper position—a pesition with which I absolutely agreed. “Following this conversation, In my letter to Mrs. Btorer of Nov, 23, 1900, quoted by Mr. Storer in his pamphlet, I Wtated with absolute clearness my position and why it was out of the question for the president to try to get any archbishop made cardinal, and all the leiters guofed by Mr. Storer as baving been subsequently written by me to him or to his wife fake precisely the same position. “1 explained repeatedly that my friendabip and admiration for Arch- bishop Ireland (which is like my friendship and admiration for Bishop Laurence of the Episcopal chiureb and Bishop Cranston of the Methodist church, Uke my friendship and admira- tion for masy clergymen of many de ers) would make me pleased to ses any good fortune attend him or any churchman like him of any cread, but i {edelesiastical affairs of any church. “This was also the position I teok ia all private conversation, aud the as- sertlon that In any private conversa: tion that I took an opposite position from that which I was thus repeatedly expressing In writing Is not only an untruth, but ap absurd untrinh, fer I would, of course, not say privately to any onc the opposite of what I was repeatedly weiting to tbat same per som. Mr, Btorer asserts that Le and Mrs. Storer and various other people, after conversations with we, put down memorands as to what they remem: bered I hed said. If such action was taken it was, of course, dishonorable No ene of them ever showed me or would have ventured to show me any such memoranda, and it Is nouseuse to #xpect to bind me Ly & wemorandom the existence of which was concealed from me “As for Mr. Storer's assertion that I tuthorized blm (0 say to his holiness that, as & personal favor to me, I wish- od Bishop Ireland appointed cardinal is vatrue. 1 gave Lim no suck suthoeri- sation, Mr Btorer proceeds to say that be at once wrote me a letter giving a and of the message he personally gave In my office fails to show any such let ter from him. request made to me by an ecclesiastical friend that I sboukl write a letter for Archbishop Ireland. "I told Wm, of course, that [ conkl not laterfers In sich a matter, ns it Was none of my business who wax made cardinal; that personally I had @ yory strong friendship and admiration for the archbishop, aud that ndieidml iy it please we greatly to see a i a a A of various denominations, not as president in help any clergyman tion to high rank In I may add that I by | na certain bie ever sent Such a letter, my doubt belng due to the facts 1 am about to set forth, that when he now at. which sho , Btorer's memory becomes mar. velously Te re “Shortly after this he received :n- other letter from me, In which I sald: i “*While 1 am president and you are ambassador neither of us in his public relations is fo act ms Catholic or Protestant. Jew or gentile, aud we have to be careful not merely to do what is right. bat 50 to carry ourselves as to show that we are doing what Is right. “I shall ask you not to quote me fe any person In any shape or any way Iu connection with any affairs of the Catholic church and yourself not to take action of any kind which will give ground for the belief that you as an American ambassador are striving to Interfere in the affairs of thechurch.'” “As 8000 as | became president I he apd letters from both of them com: plaining that the work Iu Madrid Was uuncongenis! and complaining also of the character and standing of vari- ous people lu the public service. On Sept. 22, 1801, eight days affer Pres- Ident McKinley's death, Mre. Storer wrole me urging that I should appoint Mr. Storer to the cabinet and specify- Ing 2s a desirable place the war de partment, of which you were the head, the letter running: ‘Please give him either the mavy or war. * * + | pray that Bellamy, who so richly de serves it, shall have 8 chance for hon- orable service af home to bis country,’ “When [ explained that ¥ did not In- tend to remove any ope or make any changes in the cabinet at the time she wrote me on Oct, 17 suggesting the embassies at London gud Paris as ft places for her Zustand - “My letter of May 18, 1800, to Mrs. Storer says: “Your letter of the 4th has just come to hand; also that of the 6th. 1 im very, very fond of you, and that Ix the reason your letters put me in a quandary. You want me to do all kinds of things that I cannot possibly de. One Incident which | actually - sek] krewledge In cemnection with a high Catholic eccleslastic In Cuba, which was of a character so revolting and bestial that it made ope feel that tha whole hierarchy in the Island need- ed drastic renovatien. You must re member how bampered 1 am in writ Ing from the fact that I 8o not like to Sew any one admit for a moment the right of a foreign potentate to interfere in American public policy. For In- Angry with Archbishop Ireland for not stopping the war with Spain. As far a8 1 nm concerned I would resent as an Irngpertinence any European, wheth- OF pope, kaiser, czar or president. dar. lag to be angry with any Awerican because of his action or nonaction as regards any question Detween Ameri. <2 and ao outside nation. No preten. slon of this kind should be admitted for one moment.’ " Fhyslolan Shot by Stable Hand. CHESTER, Vt., Dec 10 —Dr. Charles W. Ray, a prominent pliysician, was shot and serfously wounded Io a quag- rel with Frank Turner, a young man swployed by Dr. Ray as a stable hand. Dr. Ray was hit twice, one bullet merely grasiog the skin side of bis bedy. while the other pene- trated his left side ang came out at the back. It is believed that he will recover. Turner was placed nuder ar- test He Is nineteen years old and is the sou of Rev. W. S. Turner of Ma: plewood, Mass. ——— Feounge Trial Buds. PENSACOLA. Fla, Dec, 10. After & trial lasting twelve days the case against Manager Harlan and seven employees of the Jackson Lumber tom- pany of Alabama was concluded fast night, the jury duding Foreman Qal- laglier, Grace snd Sandor gullty of conspiring to commit peonage aud ex- ousrnting Manager Marfan asd four others. EE ——— Policeman's Button Saved Mim, NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Roupdsman Heury Stuel shot Jobn Gatewood. aged twenty-four years and colored, dead in Long Island City. Gatewood, resisting arrest, fired upon Policeman Charles Campbell, 8 bullet glanciog fromm a button on the latter's coat Stuel, who bad witnessed the shooting, then put & bullet through Gatewood's head - EE —————— Erie's Paymaster Dead of Apoplexy. NYACK, N, Y, Dec. 10—-Charles N. White, for many years Paymaster for the Erie rallroad, Is dead here of apo plexy, He was bern In New York city In 1847 and ‘was commected with the Erie road for twenty years. lis wife, merly Miss Elizabeth Crostiy of Ak , 0, EE — Held Por Sinylag Wire, JERSEY CITY, N. 1. Dec. 10.3} chasl Rizxle of Wilmington, Del. was srvestod an be stepped from a train bere last night snd held for the Dela. ware authorities. Rizsle In charged with having shot and Bied his’ Bu fa Ag a aoble efforts to relieve the financial stringency among the vofers of New York deserves recognition “But I don’t want fo be governor,” expostulated Mr Hearst “I'll gever ran for any office again except the presidency—and I've got the price.” i Mr. Hearst waved a large wad of Ereenbacks, which was instantly taken from him by one of the Cubans “What do I get for this money 7° de manded the late Democratic cand date for governor of New York ON GRIDIRON GRILL Washington's Unique Olub Gives Jolly Banquet, JOKES ON PRESIDENT AYD CAPTAINS Clubmen Takes Liberties With High and Low—Seore Taft, Hoel, Tiliman and Hearst—No Speeches i “Pardon, senor,” sxclaimed another Are Printed. of the Cubans as be handed Mr. ; : at | Hearst a lemon. ’ WABHINGTON, Dec. 10—Simplified | i = ha £ re 3 ling, the trip to Panama, adjust. | What, another lemon!” groaned Mr 2 i Hearst and promptly fainted ment of affairs in Cuba, discharge of | President Roosevelt, as usnal, made the negro battalion, the recent elec | a stirriug speech, Lut as the rules of tions, exploits of niodern financiers and | the club prevent the reporting of most of the matters which have re | speeches, what Iie sald cannot be given cently figured in the news of the day | In print made sport at the first winter diuner | of the Gridiron club. | The dinner was held in the New Wilk | lard hotel, snd captains of industry | Mrs. Anna M. Bradley Creates a Sem- a | sation at Washington. mingled with President Roosevelt's | : rrr alx a. captains of the ndministration. The WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -Ex United ——————— EX-S8ENATOR SHOT. — FRICE ONE CE Seasonable uggesti ‘Underwear Our underwesr mls cou | Sat irday and Monday. The ments are getting jow acd go | be duplicated, therefore boy i you would sare money, yolen’s $1.00 Lambsdowne uC, 50c Sanita y fleece 33¢. Men's 8 B Haxitle Ladies’ 50 i | suits 39¢. : | ladies $1.00 wool finish | suits Bc A Ladies’ $1.00 Lackawanna m president was the principal guest, and with him were Secretaries Shaw, Taft and Hitchcock. Vice President Fair banks hud = seat beside the president. and the Italian, British, Russian aod Japanese ambassadors had seats at the | president's table. So did Speaker Cao- non, . From New York came J. Pierpont Morgan, Fdward H. Harriman, Stuy. vesant Fish, James Speyer, F. I. Un- derwood, Paul Morton, Frank A. Van: | derlip, Timothy L. Woodrnff, Oscar 8. | was represented by Lieutenant Gener {al H. C. Corbin (retifed) and Major {General George L. Gillespie (retired). | - President Roosevelt is a democratic (guest at any social function, but it is {at Gridiron club affairs that he most relaxes and gives laughter its full | measure. | Gridiron club humor takes liberties with Bigh and low, the president not excepted, but It is always understood {that he shall have an opportunity to i reply. Never does he neglect this priv Hlege. The times the president has sat lat the Gridiron beanl are ruany, but never yet did he fall to zive the fun- makers as god is they