DRAMATIC
and SPORTING
SECTION FOUR
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: VOL. XXVII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXIXG, TnOVEMBER 8, 1903. Q-
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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
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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.
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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
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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. -