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REPUBLICAN
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PREPARE FOR FRAY
Headquarters at Capital to
Be Opened Soon.
PERSHING IS QUESTIONED
liorah's Catechism Is Dispatched to
General Democrats Tired of
"Wilson's Iron Hand.
OKEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Jan. 12. Political inter
ret in Washington shifted today from
the Bryan-Wilson collision to the re
newed activities of republican candi
dates. The reason was that General
.Loonard Wood arrived in the city to
attend a general military conference
at the war department.
When General Wood reached Wash
ington the first question confronting
him concerned the accuracy of a re
port that he had decided to resign
frora the army to enter the political
contest. In his usual suave but force
ful manned he replied: "There is noth
ing to it."
Wood's Hands Xot Tied.
And. of course, there is nothing to
It, because Secretary Baker bad held
that there is no regulation to inter
fere with any army officer making a
campaign . for the presidency if he
desires. Wood, Lowden and Harding
are expected to open headquarters
hero within the next three or four
days at the principal hotels of the
city. Governor Coolidge of Massa
chusetts will have headquarters
opened before the end of the week.
Up to this time Senator Poindexter
is the only candidate with local
headquarters. Senator Hiram John
eon may not have headquarters here.
At his office today it was said that
his headquarters will be wherever he
is, and that his intention was to be
on the road most of the time making
public speeches until the convention
meets in Chicago in June. Johnson
will formally open his campaign for
the presidency in a speech at Kismet
temple, Brooklyn, tomorrow night.
Pershlns; Also Catechised.
A batch of literature from the man
agers of the Pershing presidential
boom received today caused Senator
Borah to dispatch to General Pershing
a copy of the letter recently sent to
Governor Lowden. General Pershing
is requested to make clear his posi
tion on the league of nations, or to
use the phrase of the treaty irrecon
cilable, "entangling alliances." This
letter has not been sent to General
Wood, who probably would not an
swer, anyway, because of the fact
that any criticism of the treaty might
be construed as an attack on his
cominandor-in-chief, Mr. Wilson.
It is quite obvious that there will
be no attacks on the president by
General Wood.
n the statement of Carter Glass,
secretary of the treasury, published
' yesterday, is scented a vague purpose
to remove from the public mind any
bad ideas that might have been in
stilled by the recent letter of his
predecessor, William Gibbs McAdoo,
sent to the Jackson day banquet. Mc
Adoo In that letter, as in other pub
He utterances made with, political de
signs, has assailed the failure of the
republican congress to reduce taxes.
Glass, as on other occasions, points
eut the danger of making any reduc
tions in taxes at this time. This
course, he says, would only result in
a deficit and force a new liberty loan.
This paragraph in his statement is
taken as directed especially at the
McAdoo letter:
"Should congress embark upon new
fields of large expenditure or further
reduce taxes it will, as I have already
indicated, be clearly necessary to re
vise the treasury's plans and call
e upon the country to finance the re
sulting deficit by the issue of a new
liberty loan."
There are strong signs of revolt
mong democratic senators against
President Wilson's iron-hand policy
on an unamended treaty ratification.
All that appears to be hindering an
insurrection is that several democrat
ic senators dislike to be classed as
lining up behind Bryan.- They are
doing it, however, and are agreeing
to accept the Lodge reservations with
come alight modifications.
Only article 10 remained in the way
ryf a. complete compromise this after
noon, it was said by the mild reserva
tion, leaders. The republican reserva
tionists have agreed to certain slight
changes in the preamble to article 13,
which -contains the labor provisions,
and article 14, relating to the voting
power in the league assembly, but decline-
to compromise on the reserva
tion to article No. 10.
There was a time only a little while
ago when the democrats could have
obtained a modification of tho reser
vation, on article 10. but that day is
past, Adverse seretiment throughout
the country has centered so strongly
on this provision of tho covenant as
to make concessions exceedingly dan
gerous. Opponents of article 10, as
la well known, say that it would ob
ligate the United States to interfere
in old world controversies and use
the military and naval forces of this
country to preserve the territorial in
tegrity of other nations.
Ten democrats have recently fallen
In line for the Lodge reservations and
others are wavering. The leaders of
tho treaty lrreconcilables say that in-
the end the democrats who are talk
ing compromise will not have the
courage to antagonize the president.
This, they say, means sure treaty de
feat, thus forcing the question into
the presidential campaign.
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Members of the house six of them
-who voted to seat Victor Berger,
socialist, convicted of giving aid and
comfort to the enemy during the war.
received fulsome congratulations to
day from Miss Jeannette Jtankin, for
mer-member of . congress from Mon
una, who voted against the war dec
laration and the selective draft law
and made a losing race for the sen
ate as the candidate of tho Non-Partisan
league and the national party.
John Hand, Tenor, Pleases
Portland Audience.
Extra Camber Are Irish Melodies
That Hi-Ins Hearty Encores.
BY JOSEPH MA.CQUEEN.
JOHN HAND, American tenor,
looked his audience of about 10Q0
people squarely in the face last night
in the public auditorium and sang,
feelingly:
Ko'ty days an fo'ty nlshta w'en th rain
kftp' a-faUin'.
e wicked . dumb de tree an' for help
a-callin.
For dey heard de water's fallin'.
6-a-l-y, didn't it rain!
Blessed suggestion of rain. That's
what Portland has been praying for
fervently for weeks, but without
avail. How did Mr.. Hand guess it?
If we had lots of rain there wouldn't
be any more frost or freeze-ups, with
broken water pipes, and wicked
plumbers' bills to pay. So, hooray for
rain it's our safety.
"These eloquent line about rain oc
cur In one song Mr. Hand sang. Bur
leigh' negro spiritual, "Didn't It
Rain?" The audience liked that song
so much that it insisted on a repeti
tion, and Mr. Hand promptly obliged.
John Hand is a born tenor singer.
That is, nature made him sing tenor,
lie has a powerful, ringing voice that
he uses with splendid prodigality, as
if he had lots more voice to spare.
His voice is of such heroic propor
tions that it easily filled the vast
spaces of the auditorium and remind
ed one of the strong, appealing, emo
tional voice of the late Evan Will
iams in the middle register and in
"open" tones. Mr. Hand puts such
force, however, into his singing that
in the upper register his voice often
is husky and forced.- But he made a
big hit last night with his audience.
90 per cent of whom probably didn't
care a nickel about scientific voice
placing, but they liked to hear John
Hand sing. He received recalls- and
rousing double recalls. His smile is
cheerful.
flie best argument that Mr. Hand
made good last night was when he
sang only a few songs and immedi
ately was engaged by the Norwegian
singing society of this city to appear
in concert, public auditorium, on the
night of January 22.
Mr. Hand last night sang finely in
"Ciolo e Mar" from "JLa Gi conda"
and also In the "Vestl la Giubba" from
"Pagliaccl." But he made his great
popular hit with his ballads and by
his distinct utterance of their words.
His extras were all Irish songs and
his brogue waa excellent. "Irish
Eyes Are Smiling," "Mother Machree"
and "A Little Bit of Heaven" (Ball);
"There's a Long, Long Trail" and "For
Tou Alone" (Geehl). His love songs
were sung in impassioned style.
La Var Jensen of New York city
was pianist and accompanist, and
made a fine appearance. He played
well.
LIBERTY LOAN FOHESEEH
FLOATING INDEBTEDNESS OF
V. S. IS BILLION' AND THIRD.
Local Banker Says Lowering: Taxes
an-cl Increasing Expenses Will
Bar Gradual Elimination.
In commenting on the possibility of
a sixth liberty loan, as suggested by
Secretary Carter- Glass-. Robert E.
Smith, president of the Title & Trust
company, and former director war
loan organization of the 12th federal
reserve district, states that the possi
bility of another bond issue has been
recognized by department officials for
some time.
During the war the unusual expens
es of the government were financed
by the issuance of short -time treasury
ccrtit'icates, which were refunded by
the several bond issues. According
to Mr. Smith the treasury department
has issued about $1,333,333,333 of these
certificates of indebtedness since the
close of the victory loan, and it has
also been necessary to issue certifi
cates in anticipation of 1920 tax pay
ments to the abount of about $3,500,
000.000. To state it differentlly, the treasury
department has issued sufficient tax
certificates to absorb all of the esti
mated revenues from the March and
June payments of income and excess
profits taxes and a portion of the an
ticipated receipts from the September
and December, 1920, payments. Cer
tificates of that character total about
$3,500,000,000.
- In addition to this, the treasury de
partment has issued short-time notes
emounting to about $1,333,333,333. If J
government expenses continue to de
crease, this $1,333,333,333 of short-time
notes can be refunded by other short-
time notes and gradually eliminated
by tax payments. But a reduction in
federal taxes or an increase in gov
ernment expenditures would make
such a procedure impossible.
In case the country's floating in
debtedness of $1,333,333,333 cannot be
eliminated by tax payments then it is
very evident that some plan for re
financing this indebtedness through
an issue of bonds or long-time notes
like the victory notes must be re
sorted to, as the secretary of the
treasury has pointed out in his warn
ing.
Community Club Planned.
To organize a community club,
looking to improvement and welfare
of the neighborhood, a meeting has
been called at the neighborhood house.
Second and Woods streets, for tomor
row evening at 8 o'clock. All Inter
ested are invited.
Dr. Brougber Declines Offer.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 12. The
Rev. James Whitcomb Brougher, pas
tor of the Temple Baptist church here,
yesterday declined an offer of the
pastorate of the First Baptist church
of Syracuse. N. T.
Let Cuticura Be Your
First Thought Always
When the first signs of pimples, redness,
or roughness appear: amear gently with
Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal,
then bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot
water to cleanse and purify. Finally dust
on the refreshing Cuticura Talcum, a deli
cately medicated, exquisitely scented pow
der. If used for every -day toilet purposes
Cuticura does much to prevent skin trouble.
Su.pl. lock tnm r Kali. Addren: "Canon
LboTriM. Dpt Sr. Mftidm.blk." Solderer,
whew. Sop2Sc Ointment 2b and 60c. Talcum Zfce.
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IT TO SEAT
NEW YORKERS FAILS
Motion to Reconsider Vote on
Suspension Is Lost.
STATE ASSEMBLY SCORED
Resolution to Allow Socialists to
Resume Seats Pending; Decision
on Charges Ruled Out.
ALBANY. N. Y., Jan. 12. An at
tempt to reinstate the five suspended
socialist members of the assembly
failed tonight. Assemblyman Charles
D. Donohue, of New York, democratic
leader, moved reconsideration of the
vote by which the suspending resolu
tion was adopted, but the motien was
lost, 33 to 7i.
Mr. Donohue first introduced a res
olution calling upon the assembly to
allow the socialists to resume their
seats until that body might by a
proper vote decide the charges con
tained in the preamble of the Adler
resolution by which they were barred
from further proceedings last
Wednesday.
Resolution Ruled Oat.
Speaker Sweet ruled that the res
lution was not in order, in that under
the rules only by reconsideration of
the vote on the Adler resolution
could the question be brought up.
"The inference has gone abroad,"
Mr. Donodue said, "that the men who
have been indicted by a resolution
presented by the majority leader,
have been convicted before they have
had an opportunity to be heard. Their
constituencies are deprived of rep
resentation here and I believe they
ought to be represented.
"I condemn socialist principles and
propaganda. We of the city of New
York know how insidious and invid
ious it .is, but if a mistake had been
made in denying these men seats,
every member ought to be enough
of a man to stand up and say 60."
Except 11 New York city republic
ans, those supporting the Donohue
motion were democrats.
Court ( bansre Asked.
Assemblyman Ham mill, democrat,
of New York, and McKee, democrat,
of the Bronx, introduced resolutions
designed to make the assembly in
stead of the Judiciary committee the
court to hear the case of the suspend
ed socialists. Consideration of the
resolutions was deferred until tomor
row. In the upper house. Senator Julius
Miller, democrat, of New York, had
prepared a resolution to put the sen
ate on record as declaring that in its
Judgment the assembly reconsider its
action of last week. Majority Leader
Walters, however, blocked Senator
Miller's plan by moving an adjourn
ment. Reinstatement of the five socialist
assemblymen recently suspended by
the New York assembly was urged to
day in resolutions adopted by the ex
ecutive committee of the citizens'
union which declared that the assem.
bly's action tended tb "substitute the
autocracy of mob rule for the orderly
processes of representative govern
ment." The resolution also states that
the union "deplores the action of the
speaker of the assembly in refusing
the resolution suspension through the
assembly."
A committee of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, in
cluding Charles 13. Hughes and other
prominent members, today made pub
lic a resolution to be voted upon at
a meeting of the organization tomor
row night condemning as un-American
the action of the state assembly in
suspending five socialist members and
advocating appointment of a special
committee to appear in Albany before
the assembly judiciary committee to
protect the principles .of representa
tive government."
The resolution sets forth that the
association regards as un-American
any attempt by a mandator!' to ex
clude from the legislature those who
have been duly elected to Its mem
bership merely because of their af
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filiation, with a political party." and
declares that this attempt, "if suc
cessful, must destroy the rights of
minorities and the very foundations
of representative government."
The resolution upon which members
of the association will be asked to
act was made public by Herbert Par
sons, member of the republican na
tional committee. Besides Messrs.
Parsons and Hughes, signers' Include
Charles S. Whitman, former governor;
George W. Wickersham. Louis Mar
shall. Morgan J. O'Brien. Henry L,
Stimson and Ogden L. Mills.
SHORT TRIAL- IS EXPECTED
Conduct, Control and Operation of
Socialist Party to Be Probed.
ALBANY, N. Y Jan. 12. The trial
before the assembly judiciary com
mittee of the five socialist assembly
men.' suspended pending determina
tion of their fitness to serve as legis
lators, probably will not last more
than two weeks, in the opinion of
Simon L. Adler of Rochester, ma
jority leader of the assembly and
introducer of the resolution tempo
rarily unseating the socialists.
The Judiciary committee, which
will act as the trial court, will make
its report to the assembly. The vote
of the assembly on the question of
accepting the report will determine
the legislative status of the unseated
members.
One phase of the hearing. Mr. Adler
said, will be the inquiry to establish
definitely the conduct, control and
operation of the socialist party.
ORE EXPOHT TOTAL
PRECIOUS METALS RESERVE IIS"
V. S. REDUCED $441,0 00,0 00.
Or $368,144,545 in Gold, Japan
. Gets $0 4,114,189 and Hong
kong $40,045,266.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Reserve
stocks of precious metals in this coun
try were reduced more than $441,000,
000 in the calendar year 1919, accord
ing to a statement today by the fed
eral .reserve, board.
Gold exports amounted to 3368,144.
545. of which $94,114,189 went to Ja
pan, $56,560,000 to Argentina, $40.
045.266 to Hongkong, $39,109,769 to
China. $34,300,660 to British India, and
$29,778,000 to Spain. Imports totaled
$7 6,534,046, most of it coming from
Canada and Hongkong.
Silver exports were valued at $239,
001,051, British India taking $109,
150,718. China $77,583,367 and Hong
kong $10,225,351 for coinage purposes.
The growing European demand for
silver for currency was shown in $15,
635,386 exports of silver to England,
$6,588,197 to France and $2,094,084 to
The Netherlands. Imports of silver
were $89,389,536. or which $63,303,137
came from Mexico.
CIVIL SERVICE REVIEWED
Portland Association Hears Address
by R. W. Montague.
Members of the Portland Municipal
Civil Service association, assembled in
regular session last night at the city
hall, heard R. W. Montague, attorney,
one of the framers of the municipal
civil service code, deliver an Instruc
tive and eloquent address upon the
orgin and progress of civil service
methods in the United States.
Mr. Montagu traced the civil serv
ice system from the organization of
the union of American states to the
present day.
Various routine business was trans
acted, the feature of the session be
ing the reading and discussion of the
tentlve- draft of the proposed ordi
nance relative to pension and sick
leave for civil service employes.
Obituary.
Mrs. Emma Bell Christenson, for
many years a resident of Oregon, died
January 10 at Corvallis at the age of
69. She was born In Scott county,
Indiana. April 9, 1851. On March 10.
1S69, she was married at Hamilton,
111., to John D. Bell, whose death
occurred August 26, 1895, at Newberg.
Mrs. Bell caine to Oregon in 1875
with her husband and settled on a
farm near Wllsonville, later moving
to Newberg, where she had made her
heme the past 30 .years. After Mr.
YOUR LAST
CHANCE
TODAY
After the last performance this evening the
PEOPLES will close
Only to reopen shortly under the direction of
Jensen & Von Herberg, as one of Portland's
most modern and most beautiful Palaces of
the Motion Picture Art.
Charming ! Fascinating!
Adorable!
BILLIE BURKE
"WANTED!
A HUSBAND"
Bright Faced Children
soon lose their alert expression
if their eyes trouble them.
Watch them closely, if
their eyes are inflamed, ache
or cannot bear a strong: light,
bring: them to me for a tho
rough examination of the eyes.
If glasses are needed, a
pair of my Perfect Fitting
Glasses will give almost in
stant relief.
DR. WHEAT
Eyesight Specialist,
Second Floor, Morgan Bldg.,
Entrance 346 Vi Washington St.
Bell's death his widow married C H.
Christenson on December 24, 1913.
Funeral services were held in the
Baptist church, at Newberg. Mrs.
Christenson is survived by her hus
band and by three daughters, Mrs.
Flora L. Beaumont and Mrs. Vesta
K. Hollingsworth of Portland and
Mrs. Ruth E. Phillips of Sherwood
and by one son, Robert G. Bell of
Freewater.
HUGO JORGENSEN RETURNS
STATE MAXAGKR. REPORTS OX
HAMIITOX INSTITUTE MAXS.
Training of Students to Meet Xew
Conditions in Business World
Is Proposed.
Hugo Jorgcnsen, Oregon state man
ager of the Alexander Hamilton insti
tute, returned yesterday from the an
nual conference of the staff and die
trict managers of his' institution. At
this year's convention, held at the
Biltmore hotel. New York City, plans
were laid for training the students to
meet the changed condition of the
business world brought about by the
national Industrial unrest.
Among the men at the conclave
were Prank Vanderlip, ex-presldcnt of
the National City company; C. Weldon
Ring, president of the New York
Chamber of Commerce; Professor
Kaemmerer of Princeton university;
G. Fitzjohn Porter, the noted effi
ciency expert; Dean Joseph French
Johnson, and Jeromia W. Jenks, the
economist who standardized the cur
rency system of China.
While in New York. Mr. Jorgensen
spent quite some time investigating
financial affairs.
SOCIAL WORKERS MEET
Proposed Change In Court of Do
mestic Relations Approved.
At a meeting of the Social Workers'
association of Oregon last night at
room G20 courthouse, the association
went on record as indorsing the pro
posed amendments to the court of
domestic relations law which have
been drawn up by a committee headed
by W. M. Cake and will be presented
to the legislature during its present
session.
- The proposed amendments are in
tended to remove any possibility of
the present measure being unconsti
tutional. Action indorsing the amend
ments was taken by the association
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Men's Suits
at $30 & $40
You men who wish" to pay a
moderate price for a suit, will
find many good garments in our
stock around the $30 and $40
mark.
These suits are of last sea
son's purchase and are not af
fected by the present increased
prices. A lot of men are taking
advantage of these . popular
prices.
You, no doubt, can find a suit
among them to your liking.
We Close Saturdays
at 6 o'Clock
MEN S
Corbett Bldg.,
following an exposition of the matter
by Judge Cake.
Church Iovlc SIkiw I'opulur.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 12.
(Special.)- A moving-picturo show at
the First Congregational church here
last night proved so popular that it
will toe repeated. lev! W. L,. Zabcl
has announced. The picture will be
run again tomorrow night at 7:30
o'clock.
Society to Hear Bird Lecture.
Willard A. Bliot. tho bird lecturer,
tonight will deliver an illustrated ad
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ORCHESTRA MATKEE S to 4 P. M.
Coming tomorrow
Florence Reed in "The WomanUnder Oath'
WEAR
5th and Morrison
dress before the Illinois society,
which will hold its first meeting of
the new. year in the assembly room of
the Portland hotel. Mr. Kllot gave
similar talks while with the A. K. V.
in France. Miss Helen Nora Greene
also is scheduled for a reading, after
which the floor will be cleared for
dancing and tables will be arranged
for cards.
Alaska Society to Hear Talk;-. ;
Several new members were ad- I
milted at the meeting of the Alaska !
society last night in the Imperial !
hotel. 'Addresses were made by some I
of the mopt recent arrivals from thej
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and the last word
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A full range of
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northern territory, among them J. B.
Case. James Callahan, A. R. Slavons,
J. M. Carrirk, H. J. Colmau and Mrs.
K. Stamp. loughnuts and coffee were
served at the close of the programme.
Plans for the annual banquet to be
held January 2t also were discussed.
LADIES:
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Lighting ef
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singers and
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and then
The LIBERTY
Now Playing to
Friday Midnight
THE LIBERTY'S
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1. Liberty Kilncill oaal
Weekly
Kits of scenic or edu
cational compiled by
the management from
available subjects.
S. Jlortagk's Orsu Concert-Overture
from "Will
iam Tell" with light
ing efffects.
3. Sayings of Wit.
4. Violin Solo
With lighting effects.
5. Liberty P i e t o rial Re
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News of the world
compiled by tho man
agement from avail
able news weeklies.
S. The Liberty Presents
An Atmospheric Stage
Settint; of the Fea
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the U. S. A."
7. The Liberty Presents
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