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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1911)
THE JTORXrXO OHEGOXIAN, SATURDAY, yOYKMBER 11. 1911. 9 V U'Efi'S CHARTER OUTLINE IS FILED Draft to Be Submitted Under Initiative With Two Others at Special Election. FIVE OFFICIALS PROVIDED Pyslem Calls for Mayor nd Oily Manager at $10,000 Ier Annum. Troxr Voe Embodied and Rffmndnm Power Great. TVhat ta styled the "shorf-forra eharter. drafted br VT. 8. IT Bon. C. E. 8. Wood and E. 8. J. McAllister, will be submitted to the roters of Portland throueh the Initiative. In the same election the question of a commission charter la offered If the official In dorsement of that document by organ ised labor can b obtained. . Tlila In formation wii alven out yesterday by A. D. Crldae. a member of the people's charter committee Kast Side), who la ateo an active member of trades unions. Thla pror-oeed charter, maklnr throe either under consideration or before the peoples waa filed with Mayor Kuah-Ita-ht yesterday by Mr. Wood. It pro vldea for a commission of five, a Mayor and an additional commissioner, who shall be the candidate for Mayor re cetvlnc the second hlehest vote, and an Auditor. These officers shall be electee br what Is known as the -proxy vot Ins; system, by which a candidate re ceiving from 11 to t per cent of the total vote stands a trood chance of be Ins: eleoted. Maeaaer Is Preside. " Under the provisions of this docu ment, the commissioners will consti tute the legislative branch of the city rovernmeni. the executive and aurora- ltratlv powers beltia; vested in the Mayor, who la empowered to appoint a manaa-er. whose salary shall be not to exceed 110.000 per annum. The sal irr of the commissioners la fixed at JIIJO and that of the Mayor at $3004 annually. The Audltor'a salary Is Placed at 14500. Broad referendum powwi are vested In the people. It betne; posalble by pe tltlon to contest every extension, en largement, grant, street vacation, pur chase, salej of conveyance of rtht. property easement. le.HK or occupation. and to petition aaralnst numerous other public transactions. The recall Is provided on liberal terms. It being- possible to Invoke It on sny of the elected officials by petition of It per cent of the voters. The, charter provides thst the city budaret must be filed In plenty of time to allow referendum petitions to be clr culated. contesting It If desired, street Fettttoaa Ferkld. Aside from fllln In the City Au ditor's office a complete draft of Its commission charter, the official board has proposed for submission to the people as an Independent proposal an amendment which la deslcned to a menu the present charter so as to prevent rontlnued abuses and rrauas in cir culating- Initiative and referendum pe titions. The amendment proposes that all such petitions shall be signed at the office of the City Auditor, and does away altoicether with the circulation of these petitions In the streets. It also reduvs from f to 10 per cent the number of sla-ners required to either Initiate or refer any municipal ordinance "The committee was unanimously of the opinion that In view of the scan dais that have resulted trom tne cir culatlon of these petitions under the present system." said E. :. Bronaus-n, chairman of the official board, "the most direct way to remedy the situa tion and to prevent these frauds was to provide that all auch petitions be s'gned In the office of tne tity Auditor" The labors of the official revision committee are completed and no further meeting's will be held unless the same are made neceeary by ac tion of the) City Council In referring Its charter back for further revision. CONVENTION PLANS MADE Multnomah Temperance Worker Arranging (or Entertainment. Mrs. Mary MsJlett. president of the founty Women'a Christian Temperance t'nlon. announces that preparations have been started to take rare of the National Women's Christian Temper ance fnlon Convention of lt:. and that definite plans would be adopted at the county meeting to ba held about De cember 1. Mrs. Mallet said that It had been decided that Multnomah County will entertain the delegates, number ing about 450. and that the state at large will take care of the officers. Woodstock, A'.hlna. St. Johns. Monta vt?la and a number of the local unions have agreed to take care ea.-h of to delegates. Lists of hotels, which will give reduced rates, will be secured. A large attendance of White Rlbboners from the Northwest Is expected." said Mm MaJlett. "and It la hoped to secure reduced rates at hotels for these. We expect the churches and citizens of Portland to help us, as the convention will be an Important event for Port land. It will showhe people of the Northwest the leaders of the Women's Christian Temperance Vnlon." PERS0NAL MENTION. ' J. H. I.yster. ef Hpokane, la at the Carlton. Orrtn Barton, of Hlllsboro, Is at the Perkins. Court Hall, ef Medford. la at the rktna. W. B. Holman. of MrMlnnvllla, la at he Portland. Henry Johnson, of Kent, la rearlatered tt the Lenox. r. Rajatte. a Centralla contractor, la at the Oregon. W. N. Matlock, of Pendleton, la at the Imperial. W. L Ihidley. of Seattle, la regtaterea at the Oregon. W. A- Howe, a Carlton merchant, la at the Imperial. R. H. Cowden. a SUrerton merchant. Is at the Oregon. P. J. Htlle, a dragglst of Castle Rock, la at the Perkins. J. H. Ionlap. a Cascade lumberman, ta at the Oregon. rr. T. C. Campbell, of Castle Rock, Is at the Portland. Charles Losler. of Hood River, Is reg istered at the Carlton. V. D. Williamson, of Spokane, la reg istered at the Portland. John Thorpe, a Minneapolis lumber man. Is at the Imperial. Kdward Harris, a fruitgrower of Hood River, is registered at the Per kins. B. Halter, a Gresham merchant, is registered at the Perklna. C C Hammond, of Seattle, la regis tered at the Cornelius. K. L. Oaudette. a South Bend luro berman, la at the Oregon. Mr. and Sirs. J. W. Atwell. of Steven' son. are at the Impe'Pral. W. C, Bullitt, "it., of Philadelphia, la registered at the Portland. C. A. Poty. a Seattle lumberman. Is registered at the Imperial. W. P. Elv. Dostmaster of Kelso, Is registered at the Imperial. N. C. Chrlstensen. a merchant of Xewbera. Is at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Froesner, of Corvalils, are at the Lenox. Mr. and Mra. W. K. Sanderson, of Dundee, are at the Portland. Mrs. G. A. Nelson and Mtsa Holmes, of Astoria, are at the Cornelius. William F. Dlelachnelder and family, of MtMlnnville. are at the Lenox. A. H. Newell, a lumberman of Aber deen. Is registered at the Perklna. W. E. Tallant. canneryman of As toria. Is registered at the Portland. Frank T. Hunter, bank examiner, of Seattle, is registered at the Oregon. J. E. Douglass, cotton manufacturer of Guthrie. Okla. Is registered at the Portland. L. R. Stlnson. grand keeper of rew ords and seals of the Knights of Py thias of Oregon. Is at the Imperial. Governor West Is registered at the Seward Hotel, having comja to Portland to attend the Gipsy Smith meeting. CHICAGO, Nov. 10, (Special- John N. Casey, of Portland. Or., la registered at the Congress Hotel. CITY TO GREET BOYS MAYOR WILL WELCOME ArS THALIANS TO PORTLAND. Vonnr Men From Antipodes Are to Pass Five Days Her Viewing Points of I merest. Arriving In Portland In the morning of December 1. 2 Australian lads. ranging from It to II years of age and selected from the high schools and col leges of Australia, will be entertained In this city for five days. They are be ing sent at the expense of the Aus tralian government for a tour of study and inspection of the United Statea and other countries. Following their arrival here at 1:!0 A. M.. Friday. December 1. they will ba escorted to the City Hall, where they will be welcomed to the city by Mayor Rushlight. They will be entertained at luncheon that day by the British women of this city and later In the day will become the guests of high school students of this city by whom the) will be entertained for the remainder of the day. Saturday will be passed In an Inspec tion of factories In the Kenton district and at noon luncheon will be served by the L'nlon Meat Company. In the after noon a football gams will ba played with a local team on tha Multnomah Field. Sunday the visitors probably will attend church services at the Trin ity Episcopal Church. Monday forenoon, they will be entertained with a tour of the city by observation cars over the street railway lines and In the evening the lads will give an entertainment In the Bungalow Theater. Following an athletic exhibition on Multnomah Field Tuesday afternoon, the atudents will give another entertainment at Wash ington High School. Leaving Portland, the party will go to Tacoma. Seattle and Vancouver, B. C, proceeding thence by steamer to Los Angeles, where they will pass sev eral days and then begin a tour of the other principal cities of tha united States. The committee having charge of tha details of the entertainment of these lacs, met yesterday at the Commercial Club and completed the tentative pro gramme for their entertainment as It has been outlined. The committee con sists of W. T. Buchanan, chairman: James Laldlsw. British Consul; Frank Klpler. City Superintendent of Schools; E. Chapelle Brown, w. H. Lindsay and J. V. Sayre. MAYOR DOGS' CH1PI0H DOCTORS DEXTET POSSESSION OF POO'D PRISONERS. Humane Society Opposes Plan of Street-Cleaning' Committee Ac tion to Be Reconsidered. Doctors who use dogs In medical research will have to look elsewhere then to the city pound for subjects In the future. Acting upon the sugges tion of Mayor HusbliKht the Executive Board yesterd.iy referred the action of the street-cleaning committee In grant ing the doctors all the dogs they need at H each, back to the committee for reconsideration. When the question comes up sgaln the Mayor will appear at the meeting to protest against allow ing doctors to have stray dogs. Waldemar Seton. chairman of the street-cleaning committee, supported the action of the street-cleaning com mittee, declaring that the animals were not abused and were not cut up until after they were killed. Mayor Rushlight said that the prac tice In other cities hss resulted In medical students securing dogs and tor turing them to death and he did not propose to permit this In Portland. "Members Tf the Humane Society are opposed to allowtng doctore to have dogs In the city pound for purposes of vivisection." satd Robert Tucker. president of the Humane Society, yes terday. "The olty now has a lethal chamber which disposes of tha dogs humanely. This was purchased at the suggestion of our society. We would not object to physicians having the dogs after they have been killed, but we do object to letting the animals get Into the hands of Incompetent per sons and medical students. The pound self-supporting as It Is and the small rum realised from the sale of the dogs would not be enough to warrant disposing of them In thst way. My own view la that tha city pound ought to ba turned over to the Humane Society o be administered humanely. This Is done In Spoksne and elsewhere with better results than those under any other system." A wall Carrier's Load seems heavier when he haa a weak bark and kidney trouble. Fred Duehren. nail carrier at Atchison;" Kansas, saysi I have been bothered with kidney and Madder trouble and had a aevere pain across my back. Whenever I carried a heavy load of mall my kidney trouble ncreeee.i. bone time ago t stsrted eking Foley's Kldner Pills, and since takng them I have gotten entirely rid of all my kldnev trouble and am as ound now as ever." Foley a Kidney iil are tonlo In action, quick In re- u It. matter at what stage your kidney trouble may be. take Foley's Kl'lney Pills at once for quick and per manent relief. For sale by all drug gists. We do It bow. Kdlefsea Fuel Co. TAILO E3 MADE lC'CJ u Cr',: cr Ic) Saved!: awatawgVwW T tarts a JH1I5 MOR ck 9Q WING ! To enforce my rule of starting each new season with everything: new, and not to carry over a single yard from one season to the other, I offer . you your choice of a thousand patterns everything in the house at i ACTUA Everything marked in plain figures so you can be your own salesman nrkrrmnshin. same materials duriner this OtHUU lilgU-giaUD UUlUjO, uuuu, i 7 sale as you get at regular prices. "We only turn out one grade of tailoring and that is the TYnrinor this snip von fan hnv a blcrh-STade Suit or Over- IJtOt I Licit 10 J.O I'UOOl KJ 1X1" J e O a coat, tailored to your individual taste, and fitted and tried on in the bastings at less than tne cost oi a reaay-maae. SUITS and OV Now Almost at the Beginning of Season AT 251 DISCQUM About 200 Suitings sold regu larly at $22 the lowest price we ever quoted for a 1 C.50 real tailor-made suit-V About 100 patterns of pure all-wool English Worsteds in all shades of brown, grays, blues and silk mixtiires; regular C99 Cft price $30.00; sale price. Jl Every known shade and weave in Blue Serge suitable for every age, every size and every complexion every one guaran teed not to fade, and many of them not to cfcinp: rpfr. nrice $25 to $30: sale ?01 r?n price 23 per cent off $18.75 to 03 Genuine English Blue Serge; suitable for anv occasion; regular price $35; CO 9C safe price $L,LO 150 Patterns of Scotch, Eng lish ancL Domestic Tweeds, Cheviots and Cassimeres; all the new shades; reg. (IJ1Q.75 price $25; this-sale $10 A very beautiful line of the late brown broad -waler diagonal English Worsted; nothing newer or smarter to be bad any where, having been received less than 30 days ago; regular price $35.00; C9fi 25 Scil.6 price a Genuine imported Scotch Tweed; heavy and rough'; regular price $45.00; djOO 7C sale Tvrire yJJa I M 500 highest grade imported Woolens, rang ing in price from $40 to $bl representing the best suits we make your choice at CJC flfi 25 per cent off, $30 to V- V v t ,''!ll",i 7' - 1 I'. & ik ifjc- tU A-Y, ' ' i': " ill ' MERCHANT TAILORON SIXTHj AT STARK The Only Popular-Priced Portland Tailor Who Maintains His. Own Shop on the Premises, Where Every Piece Is Hand Sewed by Skilled Tailors v oSTORE OPEN EVENINGS 1