THE MORNING OREGOMA.X, JTKIUAX, AUULM' 1,
SENATORS LISTEN
TO WOMEN'S PLEAS
LEADERS OF SUFFRAGE DELEGATION THAT WAS RECEIVED BY UNITED STATES SENATORS IN
WASHINGTON YESTERDAY.
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Suffragists March in Force on
Capitol, Where They Pre
sent Petitions.
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Bankrupt Sale of I. Gevurtz & Sons
$15,000 stock of Men's High-Grade Clothing, Raincoats, Hats and Furnishing
Goods to end at 266 Washington Street.between Third and Fourth, in the
Most Merciless Slaughtering
of prices ever known. "We have no other store. We don't intend to pay any
high rents. Therefore, this stock must be sold for about whatever it will bring.
CORDIAL WELCOME GIVEN
Chamberlain and Lane of Oregon
and Other Members From West
Make Speeches of Indorse
ment on Floor.
WASHINGTON, July 31. From all
over the country supporters of "votes for
women" came to Washington to plead
their cause before Congress. The Sen
ate left off its tariff work for more
than two hours and listened to the
suffrage argument.
Delegations from every state in the
Union presented to each Senator on the
floor petitions urging the support of
the Chamberlain resolution to amend
the Federal Constitution to confer suf
frage on women and practically every
Senator presented the petitions to the
Senate.
Many made speeches declaring their
sympathy with the movement and a few
announced their intention to vote
against the resolution.
Committee Welcome Panders.
The visit to the Senate concluded an
automobile parade from Hyattsvllle,
Md.. a suburb of the capital, where the
suffragists were met and welcomed by
members of the Senate woman suffrage
committee, which made a favorable re
port on the Chamberlain resolution.
Oregon petitions were presented by
Mrs. Russell M. Maclennen, wife of a
Washington newspaperman and widow
of Or. M. Gallagher, of Portland.
Some of these petitions were presented
personally to Senator Chamberlain, as
were many others. Washington's peti
tion was presented by the wife of Rep
resentative Bryan, of Seattle. and
Idaho's petition by Mrs. H. L. Scribner.
Women Declared Equals.
Senator Chamberlain went to Hyatts
vllle with the committee to meet the
suffragist party and escorted them to
Washington and the Senate chamber.
In welcoming the suffragists Senator
Chamberlain said:
"We welcome you to the National
-Capitol aa representatives of hundreds
of thousands of patriotic men and
women of the United States.
"No sound, economic reason can be
ursred against equal suffrage. Women
are equals of men In all that goes to the
making of a better state; they are su
periors of men In all that goes to mak
ing higher standard of civilization. In
matters affecting the home, in matters
relating to all great moral questions,
they are more likely to be on the right
side than are men. uninfluenced by
personal -or party considerations.
"I desire to extend to you cordial wel
come as bearers of a message from the
people of the whole country to Congress
and to express hope that your mission
may be successful beyond your hopes
and expectations."
Lane Says Suffrage In Success.
Oregon petitions were also presented
by Senator Lane, who spoke briefly in
support of woman suffrage. declaring
women were, as competent to exercise
voting privilege as me.n. He said woman
suffrage in Oregon was proving a suc
cess and declared that the recent city
election in Portland was determined by
votes of women.
"There is no reason for denying
womfn the right to vote if they want to
vote," said Senator Lane. "Woman is
more interested in her offspring than is
man and naturally it will be to her in
terest to have in the country good gov
ernment, sound government, govern
ment which will protect the home and
protect health e.nd happiness of her
offspring. Woman should have a voice
in saying what manner of government
should be placed upon herself and upon
her children. It is not within the realm
of possibility that women can make
more mistakes than we do."
Issue Cannot Be Ignored.
Senator Owen officially presented the
petitions to the Senate.
"The reasons for this request on the
part of the women of the country," he
said, "are overwhelming and unanswer
able and the time has come when they
must be considered with dignity, with
unbiased mind, free from prejudice or
passion, in the interest of the welfare
of the human race.
"I do not appeal to men from a party
standpoint or call their attention to
.the effect which may be expected to
follow If either one of the great par
ties should go so far as to insult the
3.000,000 women who now have the full
suffrage in America by contemptuously
denying a right so obviously Just and
so obviously necessary to the welfare,
the progress and the happiness of the
people of America, but I will remind
you that a great party with high Ideals,
casting over 4.000,000 votes last year,
declared for woman suffrage and the
question can no longer be ignored."
Smoot Wants No PankhurMts.
Senator Smoot presenting the Utah
petitions, attacked militancy in the
firht for suffrage.
"Suffrage should be given, not to the
Pankhursts and the militant radicals
among our women." he said, "but to
those who follow in the womanly foot
steps of the American pioneers for suf
frage, Mary Kllen Foster, Susan B.
Anthony and others."
Senators Jones, of Washington : James
and Shafroth, of Colorado: Gallinger,
t'oindexter. Works, of California, and
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flULHALL RAISES IRE
Lobbyist Threatened With
Discipline by Senators.
TESTIMONY IS ATTACKED
Effort to Examine Into Private Life
Is Checked Association Law
yers Contend He Was Dis
charged From Job.
Left to Right Harriet May Mill, Presi
dent of ew York Suffrage Associa
tions MImm Alice Paul, Chairman of
Legislative Committee of National
AmsocI ntlon ; Mrs. Suaan Walker fitz
gerald. of the Masaachusetts Political
Equality Union.
the X&tional Association of Manufac
turers and that he always thought him
a friend until Cushing quit.
"Then I found that I wasn't even
known by name that Cushing had
given me a number, and that he was
taking all the credit for what was
done here," he said.
'BOOSTERS' ARE ARRESTED
Oklahoma Town Lot Enterprise
Characterized- as Fraud.
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Ashurst followed.
Senator Poindexter declared the
movement for women suffrage was
part of the general tendency of the age
toward enlarging the participation of
the people in the Government.
Jack Johnson Physical Type.
"Take a man like Jack Johnson,
said the Senator, "who at one time was
the champion prizefighter of the world.
If the highest privilege, the highest
right which a citizen can exercise is to
be based on physical superiority, I sup
pose he would stand very high in the
state and In the estimation of the peo
ple." Suffragists gave a big banquet to
night at which more than a score of
members of the House and Senate and
other public men were present. Sena
tors Thomas, Ramsdell, Ashurst and
Owen were speakers, and they en
couraged the suffragists with the de
clarstlon that the prospects were
bright for the adoption of the resolu
tion. Mrs. James i.ees Laid law. Mrs.
Susan Fitzgerald and Mrs. Mary Ware
Dennett also made addresses. The wo
men who visited the Senate today had
traveled from every section of the coun
try to bring their petitions. Alto
gether the petitions were signed by
more than $55,000 persons.
Tonight's banquet concluded the
demonstration.
CADILLAC 1914.
Watch next Sunday s papers lor an
nouncement.
WASHINGTON. July 31. To an ac
companiment of arguments between
counsel and members of the committee,
between Democratic and Republican
committees and between Martin Mul
hall and everybody connected, with the
case, the cross-examination of the al
leged lobbyist for the National Associ
atlon of Manufacturers proceeded halt
ingly today before the Senate investi
gating committee.
In the five hours Mulhall was on the
stand 116 questions submitted by coun
sel for the association were put to him
by Chairman Overman.
.Robert McCarter and James A. Em
ery, attorneys for the association, were
not permitted to cross-examine the wit.
ness directly, but after much debate
were permitted - to submit questions
based on replies the witness made to
the queries already submitted.
Senators Clash Openly.
Senators Reed and Walsh and Cum
mins and Nelson were almost at
swords' points on several occasions.
but peace was restored without an
open break, and any ill feeling that
existed was laid away for future ref
erence. Mulhall himself, always an
interesting- witness, ready to make
comments on the attorneys for the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers or
its officials, surpassed himself, in spite
of continual warnings by the chairman.
He declared once that unless the com
mittee allowed him to have counsel he
would refuse to' answer further ques
tions.
Chairman Overman finally became
so angry that he bluntly told him un
less he refrained from superfluous com.
ment and stuck to plain answers he
would be subjected to discipline.
Mulhall subsided after the admoni
tion.
Personal Inquiry Checked.
The National Association's attorneys
attacked Mulhall's story told in his
correspondence and his examination in
chief along several lines. They sought
to show that tie was. aiscnarged ana
did not resign from the association.
They produced statements in a news
paper that published his correspon
dence before the committee took up the
investigation, alleged to have been
made by the witness, which be denied.
and they questioned him to -show that
he tried unavailingiy to dispose of his
documents to many magazines and
newspapers without success. An effort
to go into Mulhall's private life was
not allowed by the committee.
The lawyers were Just getting to
the question of the motives back of
Mulhall's "exposure" when the com
mittee . adjourned. The witness had
time, however to denv that he had
knifed" the late Senator McComas, of
Maryland, several years ago. working
against the Senator for re-election
while posing as a friend. He admitted
that he sent out circulars to business
men in Baltimore while seemingly still
a friend of McComas, but swore that
he did this under orders of Marshall
Cushing. at that time secretary of tbe
association.
Mulhall Known by Number,
The lawyers referred to a flattering.
friendly letter Mulhall wrote Cushing
Just after the secretary left the as
sociation s employ and then read from
another dated a few weeks later, writ
ten to an official, in which Mulhall at
tacked Cushins bitterly. Examined by
members of the committee, Mulhall said
Cushing gave him his employment with
PHILADELPHIA, July 31. Com
plaints continue to pour in against the
"Oklahoma Boosters," who have been
touring the country in a gaudily fur
nished private car, selling lots In Okla
homa. It is alleged that the "boosters'"
have collected more than $1,000,000
throughout the country and that the
Pennsylvania contribution is about
$200,000. In the little Pennsylvania
town of Sunbury 20 men have been
found who bought lots at $350 each,
paying $50 down and agreeing to pay
$10 a month.
Three more warrants have been
sworn out by Government officials fol
lowing the issue of four warrants on
Monday.
The Postoffice Department has re
ceived a letter from a committee of
five residents of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who
went to McAlester, Okla.. to investigate
conditions there. The land 'deal is
characterized in the letter as enj of the
country.
W. F. Gorsuch and Victor Rausch,
who were arrested in the "Booster" car
Monday, are still in jail. They will
have a further hearing next Monday.
THIEF WINS PROFITS
Embezzler of $30,000 Invests
Stolen Funds to Advantage.
RETURNS NEARLY $70,000
Cashier of Title Company in Call
fornia Buys JFarm Lands With
Money Stolen Bit by Bit Over
Period of Two Years.
FOWL AUTOPSIES ORDERED
Many Deaths in Central Park Cast
Suspicion on "Water Supply.
NEW YORK, July 31. One of the
most unusual autopsies ever ordered by
the city authorities is expected to es
tablish the cause of death of nearly
one-third of the valuable collection of
waterfowl in Central Park. For the
last three days an epidemic has been
raging among the fowl, 41 having died
in one day. The water in the lake has
been drained off and analyzed but it is
the opinion of the Park Commissioner
that spinal meningitis and not impure
water is to blame for the high mor
tality. Among the fowl affected are ducks
from China and the Arctics. One of a
pair of priceless black swans, an almost
extinct variety, is dead. Sixty-one birds
in all have succumbed to the malady.
WOMAN STARTS LONG WALK
Mother, in Sunbonnet and Gingham,
and Children, Hiking 1870 Miles
NEW YORK, July 31. Mrs. M. B.
Chester, of Middletown, N Y., wife of
a boat builder, started from here with
two of her 10 children to walk to
Minneapolis, 1370 miles. She carried
a letter from Mayor Gaynor to the
Mayor of Minneapolis, which she hopes
to deliver two months hence. The two
children are boys, aged 13 and 14
Mrs. Chester, who was costumed in the
sunbonnet and gingham dress of a
farmer's wife, said she had no other
purpose in attempting the journey thau
the love of walking.
SAN FRANCISCp, July 31. (Spe
ciat.j tsy stealing $30,000 of his em
ployers' funds in small amounts over a
period of two years and investing his
defalcations judiciously in California
farm lands, Henry P. Piatt, cashier of
the California Pacific Title Insurance
Company, reaped a proflt of nearly
$70,000.
This is one of the most startling
chapters of Piatt's confession to his
employers, following the discovery of
his thievery by expert acoountants.
who.i Piatt had succeeded in baffling
tor two years by adroit methods of con
cealing his embezzlements.
Piatt will positively be prosecuted,
according to a statement made by Mur
ray Jr. vandail, manager- of the com
pany. The whole tangle was die
cussed at a special meeting of the
board of directors callled for that pur
pose this afternoon.
Money Not Squandered.
Piatt's confession that he stole $30,-
000 of the corporation's funds with
which to reap rich profits in realty in
vestments has fallen like a bombshell
among a. large coterie of friends in
San Francisco society. Piatt is mar
ried and has three daughters.
Lnlike scores of embezzlers who
have squandered the thousands taken
from their employers, Piatt invested
his defalcations judiciously in farm
lands, until his investments netted him
aggregate proflt that is estimated
at nearly $70,000.
His property holdings, which have
been turned over to the company, pend
ing the result of the present investiga
tion, are said to value $100,000, and
out of this sum Piatt easily can repay
tne company the $30,000 which he ad
mits he embezzled.
Ambition to become a Napoleon of
finance and to heap more and more gold
on the piles which he had accumulated
by clever investing, is the essence of
Piatt's excuse for his thievery.
First Investment Profitable.
He began his peculations early in
1911, he says in his confession. At that
time he stole only small amounts which
he invested in farm lands. Soon after,
ward he sold this land at great profit.
Then a new and seemingly better in
vestment turned up. To negotiate it
Piatt needed just a litye more money
than he held as a result of his first
lucky speculation and so he stole again.
Three Killed In Ore Train "Wreck
DULUTH, Minn., July 31. Three la
borers were killed and two fatally In
jured in a collision of ore trains at
the Great Northern Railroad docks at
Allouez, Wis., tonight. The bodies of
the victims were thrown into the ship
ping pits by the impact. The dead are
foreigners. A mistake in switching is
said to -have been the cause of the ac
cident.
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ENTIRE STOCK
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Great opportunity for those starting housekeeping
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63 Fifth St., Corner Pine
There are
5000
AUTOMOBILES
in Portland.
Practically every one of these
machines is for sale after the second
year.
The reasons for selling these cars
are not of particular interest.
The fact remains ftiat these cars
are for sale for many hundreds of
dollars LESS than they are actually
worth.
These cars are offered for sale in
the WANT AD columns of- this
paper today. Thousands upon, thou
sands of people read these Automo
bile for Sale ads, people who "want
and are able to buy a machine.
If you are the one who wants t
buy a machine, just turn to the Auto
mobiles for Sale in the Want Ads of
this paper and you will find it there.
$12,$15,$18Youths'
Long Pants Suits
33.95
Sizes 32, 33, 34, for ages 16 to
20; only about 25 in the lot.
Regular $12, $15, $18 values,
to be slaughtered at $3.95
High-grade Raincoats
Slaughtered
$15.00 Raincoats . . . S 7.95
$20.00 Raincoats... $11. 95
$25.00 Raincoats. . .SI 3. 85
$30.00 Raincoats . . . 16.95
BUY NOW. OR NEVER
$20, $25, $30 Men's Suits
$8.95
All sizes from 35 to 42, but
mostly 35, 36 and 37 ; all high
grade makes that every man
is familiar with and that sell
regularly at $20, J Q C
$25, $30, to go at.DO.70
Who can wear a 35 size
Suit? About a dozen in
the lot; regular $15-$20
grades, your
choice at . . .
$5.95
$3.00, $3.50, $4.00 Soft
SS $1.49
$50-$S0 Full Dress Suits
$21.95
The very best of -workmanship,
finish and materials;
regular $50 to $60 values, to
go at S21.95
$2.50 Men's Full Dress White
Kid Gloves, the pair, SI .45
Men's 25c Full Dress "White
Ties :l2y2d
Men's $2.00 White and Black
Silk Mufflers S1.00
YOUR LAST CHANCE
Everything in this stock is practically new and high grade no junk or trash.
Everything has the original plain price tickets as when this tremendous, suc
cessful and legitimate sale started the only difference you will find is that, the
end drawing near, we have beat all previous price-smashing to a frazzle.
Boys Knickerbocker
Suits Slaughtered
$ 6.00 Grades ....$2.45
$ 8.00 Grades ... .$3.45
$10.00 Grades $4.45
15c Arrow Collars cut to 6V4l
50c Suspenders cutr to . . 19
12Vc 'Kerchiefs cut to...6
25c Socks cut to 12M2
75c Silk Socks cut to..29d
50c E. & W. Cuffs...l2V2C
25c Neckwear cut to Xli
35c Neckwear cut to 15
50c Neckwear cut to..-19t
50c "Work Shirts cut to.33
75c Golf Shirts cut to..39?
50c Caps cut to 29 J
$1.50 Khaki Ccate 98
Soft Silk Negligee
Shirts Less Than
Half Price
$2.50 Silk Skirts S1.15
$3.00 Silk Skirts S1.39
$3.50 Silk Skirts. . .. ".81.65
$4.00 Silk Skirts S1.89
$5.00 Silk Skirts S2.35
Men's $2.50 Ruff -Neck Sweat
ers cut to --S1.65
Entire stock Straw Hats, sell
ing regular at $3.00, $3.50, $4,
your choice $1.00
Entire Stock of Shirts
at Bankrupt Prices
$1.00 Monarch Shirts S .79
$1.25 Shirts ....... - S .89
$1.50 Arrow Shirts... S1.10
$2.00Shirts cut to.. ..$1.29
$2.00 Flannel Shirts.. $1.25
$3.00 Blue Fln'l Shirts SI. 95
Suit Cases
Go Traveling
At Bankrupt Prices
$ 2.50 Suitcases at.. 81.35
$ 3.00 Suitcases at..-S1.65
$ 3.75 Suitcases at...S1.95
$ 5.50 Suitcases at... $2.95
$ 6.50 Suitcases at... $3.35
$10.00 Suitcases at. . -85.95
$15.00 Suitcases at. . .$8.75
Headlight and Boss of the
Road Engineers' Overalls cut
to 79c
HALF PRICE
Entire stock "Faultless" and
other well-known brands of
Night Shirts Price
HALF PRICE
Entire stock Boys' Bathing
Suits, Men's and Boys' Run
ning and Gym Shirts and
Pants V2 Price
Entire Stock of
Underwear
2-Piece and Union Suits at
Bankrupt Prices
Such Makes at G. & M. Coop
er's, Dunofold and Others
$ .50 Underw'r cut to $ .39
$1.00 Underw'r cut to 8 -65
$1.25 Underw'r cut to S .79
$1.50 Underw'r cut to .98
$2.50 Underw'r cut to S1.49
$3.00 Underw'r cut to S1.95
$3.50 Underw'r cut to S2.35
$4.00 Underw'r cut to 82.65
$5.00 Underw'r cut to S3.45
$3.00 Imported Linen Mesh
Underwear cut to ...81.49
Broken lines, 50c-65c grades,
cut to $ .25
Boys' $2.00 Ruff -Neck Sweat
ers cut to.... S1.19
Take advantage of these tremendous savings, as in a few days the doors will
CLOSE FOREVER at this sale.
At 266 Washington, Between 3d and 4th
The second Investment waa as profit
able or more so than the first.
And so he continued for two years
his peculations Increasing just as his
profits swelled. Two years of such
transactions fouB& Piatt the owner of
$100,000 worth of farm lands in Cali
fornia and the embezzler of $30,000 from
his employers. His profit aggregated
nearly $70,000, the frujt of his crime.
Piatt says that he always Intended
to return the money to his employers.
While his system of embezzlement is
known, the manner in which he suc
ceeded in concealing it from the com
pany's accountants Is a mystery and
the one phase of the case which the
cashier refuses to explain. Piatt's
crime might yet have been concealed,
but for a bungle in one of his transactions.
If an English engineer's plan to run aa
electric railroad up the side of Mount
Popocatapatl. In Mexico, be carried out,
passengers will experience a change in
temperature from 70 degrees above zero to
10 below within two hours.
BEGINNING AUG. 1ST
Classified advertisements, to receive
proper classification in the next day's
issue of The Oregonian, must De in Tbe
Oregonian office before 18 o'clock at
nisat.
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