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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1908)
DRAMATIC and SPORTING SECTION FOUR Pages 1 to lO L- ' . , , mm&m? . -. : : VOL. XXVII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXIXG, TnOVEMBER 8, 1903. Q- II! iiniiu Ul UUIIUIILUU ALU? -PMC MIGHT BE FORGED oKeta Oregon, Won J Si'T ' In This Great Sale All Values Elsewhere Have Been Completely and Emphatically Eclipsed Such a Sale as This in Its Immensity Has Never Been Held in Portland Before. Every Piece of Parlor T7.,,;'fr in 'Our. Vast Stock at a Price That Is Lower Than the Wholesale Manufacturers' Cost. Bed Davenport Bargain No. 3 Solid oak frame, finished weathered or golden oak; back drops, mak ing a perfect bed ; no center ridjre. Solid comfort H f A f ritten all over it. Reeularly sold by the trade at I .jU .20.00. HALF PRICE Y Parlor Suit Bargain No. 1 Mahoganv polished finished on Eastern Birch frames, beautifully upholstered in verona, with spring seats or loose cushions; $30 suite, half price. $25.00 Parlor Suit Bargain No. 2 ilahopanv finish on birch, upholstered in preen two-tone verona; spring seats; sold by others at $25.00 suit. Half $12.50 pric Mattress Bargain No. 4 ft . Cotton Top Mattress No shoddy wool used; full size; regular $4.00 value; $1.90 I little les than half price " Silk Floss Mattress Bargain No. 12 Kegular $H.00 half price $7.00 Couch Bargain No. 5 This fine Couch, full roll ed.se, upholstered in veronas; C"7 CQ -. rerularlv scld at flo.00. Halt pnee t - Rug Bargain No. 6 Room-Size Rugs 9x12 Bmssels Rugs. 12 patterns to select from 9x12 all-wool Ingrain Rugs $7.85 9x12 Pro-Brussels all-wool Rugs S8.85 Small Velvet Rugs, 27x54 inches'... $1.15 Carpet Bargains $1.00 . 90c Extra Tapestry Brus- ou sels, reg. $1.35 ..OOC Tapestry Brussels. Smith's, reg. $1.25.. Mottler Brusselette, ACtn n , I 75i Wilton Velvet, reg.dj-i fr $1.60; sale price.. pl.WU Axminsters, reg. $1.60; sale price Saxony Axmin Kterreor. Sfcl.50. . Japanese Matting remnants; regular 35c, sale price 15 Spec'l Bargain Solid Oak Jardi niere Stand Regular Price $3 Gadsbys' Vz Price $1.50 This solid oak Jardiniere Stand finished golden or weathered oak, or in the white; regular price $3.00; now, fl1 CO Half Price 1,OU $35 Range for $27.50 All are guaranteed for ten 3'ears. Leader range, with high closet and duplex grate, spring-balanced oven door. This is a heavy, sub stantial and durable range, niade of the best quality cold-rolled steel. Adapted for coal or wood. Oven thoroughly braced and bolt ed, asbestos-lined through out, nickel-trimmed, section plate top. Gads-$27.50 bys price No matter what article of furniture you seek, or what you may be willing to pay, it is assured beyond a doubt that you will find it here priced less than in any other store on the Coast. You are doing your self an injustice if you need any household goods, if you do not take advantage of this opportunity. J n CouchBargain No. 7 Upholstered in checkered velours and striped velours; .browns, greens and reds ; full spring seat, neat and at- (J I f tractive frame. Priced everywhere $9.00 and BHt'.rjlJ more. HALF PRICE f Kitchen Treasure Bargain No. 8 $10 for This Elegant Dining Table You will be asked a third more at other stores; it is made of se lected wood, golden finish; the S-foot size fs marked "JQ QQ We Have No Rent to Pay That's Why We Sell for Less Our Great Special Sale of Fine Morris Chairs f 12.50 Morris ' C7 7C Chairs reduced to. .P $14 Morris Chairs C 1 1 reduced to....... .'". $18 Morris Chairs C 1 C reduced to lv f 20 Morris Chairs ( reduced to. 4 1 v f25 Morris Chairs J20 reduced to n I AT ilk If 1 5 - VBI yj NOTICE! No Mail or Phone Or ders Filled Would Have to Provide New Navy if Present Ships Came to Pacific. POWER IS WITH EXECUTIVE As Commaijder-ln-Chlef of Xavy H Could Thus Force Hand of Law makers Atlantic States Would Object. OREGOXIAN NEWS BfRKAU, Wash ington, Nov. 7. There Is a year simple, yet very effective means wnereby Presi dent Roosevelt, or his successor, can force Congress to provide for a more rapid In crease in the American Navy, and but for the fact that Itinerary of the battleship fleet has been fixed, this remedy might be applied after the warships hve con cluded their visit to Japan. If th President at the conclusion of the circumnavigation trip, shall order one half of the big fleet, eight battle ships, to take station on the Pacific, Insisting that the West coast, with its growing commerce and growing sea ports. Is entitled to as much protection as the Atlantic coast. Congress will be very quick to respond by providing for the immediate construction of a new battleship fleet, to replace those ships that might be detached from the Atlan tic fleet. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, the President has absolute , say as to the station of both military and naval forces. He can assign war ships wherever he thinks proper, and none can question his orders; not even Congress can intervene. If the Presi dent deems it expedient to assign eight or ten battleships to the Pacific Coast, or divide them between the Pacific Coast, Hawaii and the Philippines, his order must be carried out. Would Raise Great Howl. But any such order from the Presi dent would bring forth a tremendous howl from the populous states and cities of the Atlantic seaboard; it would be heralded abroad that the Eastern ports of the United States had been left without ample protection against inva sion, and such terrific pressure would, be brought to bear that Congress would be compelled to provide for a large in crease in the Navy, In order that the Atlantic seaboard might have that measure of protection to which it be lieves Itself entitled. At the last session of Congress the President endeavoied to secure author ity for the construction of four battle ships, and in this fight he had the almost solid backing of the West. But he also met with determined opposition from the East, and in Congress the strength of the West is no match for that of the older and more thickly settled states on this side of the Mis sissippi. The President's four-battleship programme was smashed by East ern Senatbrs and Eastern Representa tives. But by exercising his unquestioned au thority as Commander-in-Chief, the President can circumvent the men who blocked his programme last Winter, and he can, by the stroke of his pen, force the men who opposed him last Winter to work for the very object for which he then vainly struggled. Tables "Would Be Turned. Take away from the Atlantic fleet eight battleships and send them to the Pacific, where Congress will have no further jurisdiction, and the very men who led the opposition to the President's plan will, of necessity, become the lead ers of his cause not because their atti tude toward him has changed; not be cause they believe in a larger Navy but because they would then be unable to withstand the demand from their peo ple. In other words, the plan to increase the Navy can be made a local issue in the manner Indicated, and the powerful states of the East, heretofore hostile, would becomo the foremost advocates of President Roosevelt's programme. In deed, so great would become the demand for more battleships that Congress might go even farther than the President rec ommended. The situation Is such that it is im probable President Roosevelt will play the trump card, which will force Con gress to act, but there is no reason why Mr. Taft, if he succeeds Roosevelt, should not adhere to the Roosevelt naval policy, and as an evidence of his belief in the naval programme, increase the battleship fleet on the Pucinc. Taft Knows Conditions. Mr. Taft, being perhaps more familiar with conditions on the Pacific and in the Orient than any other man In the Gov ernment, fully appreciates the importance of adequately protecting not only the Pacific Coast, but our possessions in the more remote parts of the Pacific Ocean, and he could, with perfect propriety, send a part of the Atlantic fleet back to the Pacific waters after he becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. The battleship fleet is scheduled to re turn to American waters late in Febru ary, and only a few days before Presi dent Rooseveit will turn over the affairs of state to his successor. It would be rather extraordimiry for him, on the eve of retirement, and immediately after the completion of the voyage around the world, to send eight' battleships around the Horn a second time. If it is the President s purpose to divide the fleet, he will probably do so before the battleships leave European waters on the last lap of their long and eventful voyage. He could, about the first of November, when the visit to European ports will have been concluded, send some of the ships back through the Suez Canal, with or ders to take station on the Pacific. Such an order would have instantaneous effect in Congress, and authorization would be made at the coming session for a bunch of new battleships to replenish the Atlan tic fleet. t But it is more than likely that Presi dent Roosevelt will permit the entire fleet to return to Hampton Roads or New York or wherever the final rendezvous is to 'be held, thereby permitting his suc cessor to achieve what distinction would attend forcing the Eastern men In Con gress to provide for a marked Increase In the Navy. Such a policy would postpone the advanced naval programme for a year, but in the end the result would b the same. -
