the following year mckinley arranged for a visit with the pope and authorized the couple to mention john ireland for consideration. in 1902, when roosevelt was president, he made bellamy minister to austria-hungary and did not wish to involve himself in advocating for archbishop ireland. however, maria continued to press the issue by meeting with members of the vatican and leaving false impressions with others that roosevelt backed such sentiments. these events led to the removal of bellamy as minister, the news of which was rather scandalous at the time. ironically, maria's nephew, nicholas longworth iii, came to marry roosevelt's daughter alice later, and storer refused to attend the wedding.