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. . . . ...... - - v THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY? MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1903. PLAN TO DECORATE CITY ; WITH GROWING FLOWERS ;Rose '.Festival Promoters Take Hint From Hamburg, V .Germany, Where Scheme Has Been Brought to i '.Perfection Send Abroad for Information. . JVfor a g-nerai system of street ana ' building decoration the Portland Rose Festival association will next year fol :.low the Initiative of the city of Ham Iburg, Germany.- The Ideas adopted by t--the far tamed Oerman commercial cen ter will be used during the next annual r. Rose festival next June. Letters have 4 been sent to the burgomaster of liam burg asking for ' all , literature and illustrative features of - the sys rttetn of public deqoratlon of busl- ness blocks employed In that city. Re - turn from these appeals upon which T the general scheme of dressing local . , thoroughfares and buildings will be . - based are expected within the next week or so, a. id from the postcard samples 't of the work that Is done In Hamburg, It ls evident that rortland will be more conspicuously able to demonstrate Its " superiority as the real "rose" center of America by the adoption of the Qer man form of decoration. . In. a general way, Hamburg at Its v: annual feast of flowers, sets out Li window' boxes of all sorts of trailing, .rambling and trellis flowers and plants. These boxes occupy the window ledges -'and are set out months and month be J fors the yearly celebration Is to takt place. As a matter of fact, most of the i leading. Germaa cities maintain such a ,! comprehensive system of decoration the V- ysr. around, particularly tn such towns where the climate will permit of it. Orders have been placed by, the Rose ,"' Festival association for a most com plete array of photographs showing ... what can be 'done in the general treat ! ment of an individual business "block. :" These viers when received will be dls-.-' tributed among the various large office and mercantile buildings in the busi ness district with the hope that a uni form scheme cf floral decoration may be adopted by Portland merchants. It will not require any fancy plants or vines to accomplish this, for Portland is rich enough In . such -vegetation to supply all demands that may be made. The chief advantage of handling the general decorative plan in this manner Is that a scheme of this sort will be Impervious to weather; that no matter whether it rains or not, the decorations will appear to just as good advantage, and in fact the more rainy weather the fresher the building decorations will look. There is always the danger when bunting and other forms of fabrics are used tor .decorating streets or buildings that a prolonged spell of wet weather Will drench, them: will sdoII the effect. win oearagffle the material i ana "run the colors; but. this cannot take place u in Hamburg system is adopted, a matter .of xaet, the more rain oetusr. -.- As soon as the mayor or burgomaster of Hamburw ha been heard from, the details' of this general plan' of decorat ing buildiiuta-will le Announced by the Festival associations The'appeal made by President Hoyt to Interest amateur photographers in the festival movement has borne fruit Several - camera "fiends" have already submitted print of- the views which they obtained at the last celebration and a. considerable number of these pictures have been accented. These view are to be used for gen-1 oral ujaij-isnrcion among eastern news papers and publications which have sent in request lor typical Portland ill! As I the tures. pic- i- M 1 1 tj Suggestion, Not Complete Law, Should Come from the People Portland, Nov., St. To the Edltpr of ? The Journal I cannot hope to con vince every one of the soundness of my ' views on direct- legislation. Bbt I feel sure that a general discussion will help f to clear up difficulties, and perhaps may reconcile differences of opinion. . In your editorial In last Sundays T Journal yon give me credit for fairness T in my discussion of the apparent Ue- f ect in the Oregon system of using the " in-..ative and referendum, and thi em t i bolden me to trespass upon your apace sufficiently to add a few words of ex- planatlon to one feature of the aubject i covered by my recent paper read be fore the Oregon Bar association. "s Tou dismiss my suggestion that the ,r subject matter of bills voted upon under s the initiative plan should be confined to single propositions In concrete form, .'" as "good in intent, but of doubtful prac tlcability." But I am not convinced. -To me It seems highly desirable that ""measures voted upon should be eo nlm ' pie and plain that they may be readily understood by even the unlearned, and I " think an amendment could he framed Zi, that would accomplish this object. . vame oi snors auu. It ought not to be that laws voted ""upon may be so long or so intricate that f none but an expert can "ten wnai iney - mean. A dim may oe gooa in meory, , but may contain many provisions that r"ourht not to be included, but If it con- i, tains many pages of .closely printed matter it win not be unaersiooa oy any who do not make a business of study t'lng It. ix, on the other hand, the law w proposed . was confined to one single proposition, it would not require so Tmueh effort to read and digest its pro m visions, and there would be less lfkell- hood of : concealed objectionable feat- urea . ZM But I understand you substantially "sdmt -this,- and your objection goes rather ' to whether any limitation is J feasible. J i sav then, that It ought to bo per fectlv'feasible to adont reasonable 11ml- : tations. These would be (1) as in the . " Oregon constitution respecting lglsla- tive bills, the title should Indicate the subject matter, and the subject matter should be single in character; (2) the - j total numDer or sections, ana tne total f number of words in any one measure ' should be limited. . Veopl Bhonld BuggMt "f.- A to the last point, there Is no need. i,. in" my Judgment, in the exercise of the " Jaw making power by the people, that tney go into the minute lis ana anas. , iJeclarstlons of broad general principles, to be followed later, if necessary, by en- ' actments Dy the legislature to carry , out the purpose, are sufficient and more '11 effective. It was never Intended to have the people supersede the legislature - The purpose, rather, In. adopting the initiative is to hold a strong check on .'" that body, and to use the power only in emergencies. It is when the people are sroused to a feeling that the legislature is not performing its duty that the . - power Js to be exercised. Yet. as mat- - ters now stand there is no limit to the use of the initiative, and sny number of measures may De proposed until the very purpose and object to be Hccom pllshed is not only lost sight of, but the whole scheme Is rendered ridicu lous and dangerous in the hands of its I . enemies. '; Now, thore never comes a time when the necessary check cannot as well be had by a brief declaration of a general v principle upon which statutes shall be " framed, as by a long and particular en- actment going into detailn. To take an illustration; Suppose the people wish to alter the present system of taxation 4 by declaring for an Income tax. Would " it not be much better to do determine ? by a simple three line law, directing thj .' legislature to formulate the measure, rather than to have somebody get up ?. such aetatute, and the people have to accept his draft, or refuse It, as a whole t end without opportunity to amend, and almost ' without opportunity to read or 'digest its Intricate provisions? To the 1 i objection that this might defeat the i .purpose of direct legislation by leaving it in the power of the legislature. to put v objectionable matters In the law enact " ed, the answer is that this, if It hap v pened. if would ibe easily corrected by the exercise of the referendum, and by lUIianr lUltlBUVV C4,n nil 7I I L3 kl 1116 next election. I think the limitation should b e that Catarrh A Blood Disease : Whether Jt manifests Itself in thf J7 nose, throat, stomach, bowels or other organs, catarrh is a blood disease bc- eauso it depend on impure blood. ' Therefore it must be treated with a Hood medicine for a radical and per- manent core. . v ".-. Hood's Sareaparilla is the most suc . ' cessful. It purifies the blood, strength- ens the stomaeh and other organs, and s. i bnilds np the whole system. It W. radically and permanently cures. . ..- IX The most eamty,developed form r of Catarrh is Nasal Catarrh, in the treatment of which Hood's SareapariJla la grfatijr aided- by Antiseplets 01 CaUrrlets, which afford prompt relief. .Hood's Sarsaparilia n In bsnal liquid form or chocolated tablets known m Sarsatabs. lf0 doses SI. All dmirplst. Antiseplets 60c, druggists, . or walL U L IIOOD CO., Lowell, Mas, . no bill voted on under the initiative plali should contain over Ave sections, or over ju words. Thl limit is ample for all practical purposes. . for within this scope any measure of general char acter can be worded, and beyond this limit a taw becomes too prolix and elab orate for practical use in elections where the whole people are voting. It is by discussion of these questions, and exchange of opinion, that suitable amendments may be prepared. If there is one objection to the use of the initia tive that Is more cogent than others it Is that bills are prepared and presented without general public debate,- and as there is no opportunity to modify them after they se put before the voters, they must stand or fall as submitted. This makes' it the more important that the newspapers should fully discuss these questions In advance. j CHARLES H. CAREY. JAPAN'S 'NEW TREATY (Continued from Fage One.) budget. Under which the Japanese em pire has been groaning since the Russo Japanese war. The new cabinet has already an nounced a policy of economy with rc- fard to naval expenditures, but the news hat a formal agreement between the United States and Japan Is to be signed has set at rest any apprehensions that were expressed as to the wisdom of the policy of economy. SENATE 3IAY BLOCK KOOT'S CLEVER MOVE; STORY OF TREATY Washington, Nov. 28. The sending of the Atlantic lleet into Japanese waters and the reinforcement of that fleet from stations near at hand from the Pacific forced Japan to subscribe to an agree ment that she would give up all in tention of attacking Hawaii or the Phil ippines in order to force Japanese Immi gration legislation by the United States. There was no need to enter Into any kind of an agreement with Japan, In asmuch as the United States always could maintain in the Pacific a naval force sufficient to overawe and to pro duce peace between these two nations. These are two important views of the treaty or agreement, which it Is ad mitted today exists between the mikado ' and the state department. The first Is held by friends of the administra tion. Tho second Is held hv fhna. h consider the treaty an unnecessary sop thrown out to pacify a belligerent na tion that could not fight except diplo matically. "Sands Off" Agreement. Secretary Root is not here, hiit partment of ficial describe "the treaty" 1 as a "hands off agreement for the ! purpose of testifying the mutual ad-! miration of the two countries for eacn I other. Politicians, however, say that all the circumstances leading up to the B Ji wutcru in ne scrutinized that whether it is a treaty or not, the docu ment itself shoi'M be sent to the sen- These same politicians say that the j uiMumviii unucr secretary Root is playing the same name which failed in the case of Santo Iomingo. In that case, without the knowledge of the sen ate, a so called treaty was arranged be tween the Anierj.-an minister and the San Iiomingo foreign office, havin for Its object the administration of the en tire customs service of that republic for the benefit of the ITnlteH ai.... "i European nations, which were threaten-I ing to make a descent onto San Do mingo. The upshot of that affair was' that the senate compelled the produc-1 tion of all the papers In the case criti cised the department for Its assump- il00 -0hniPWer-8' nd ,radlca"y modified1 the whole business. It has been f reelv , predicted tonight that the same course " i;u.uju in me arrair between Secretary Root and the Japanese foreign office. Senate Kay Call. The position of the administration according to its officials, is very strone' aside from the contingency that the sen ate may call for thp papers Administration officials Fay tonlcht that if the senate objects to the ma" ner in which the treaty was prepared there will be two complete answers That if the prestige of the United States is maintained to the disadvant age of Japan in the agreement that it the possessions of each country ar. be reacted because It i IL?I? the world that th United States i couM destroy the Japanese navy. ' uld That Japan would not have airreert absolutely to rospect the integrity J China were not the United States rthiA to force the Issue and ready to force It Incidentally the agreement tc, reneoi the Integrity of China means the evfoS' ntlon of Manchuria, not only by Jann but also by Russia, ' Japan, The reply of the critics of uiecmcui lu hu mis is that Useful presents are the ones worth while; and nothing can be more worthy than a wisely selected piece of furniture. From our exten sive display it is easy to select something that will please. . Especially suitable for presents we mention dressing tables, princess dressers, pedestals, tabourettes, ladies' desks, mirrors, chairs and parlor cabi-; nets. Extra liberal cash discounts are offered in the various de partments this season, and nowhere can you get more for your dollars than at Edwards Company store. Clocks $2.75 Eight-day Clocks, which strike every hour, guaran teed to be berfeet timekeep ers, mounted in golden oak frames f2.75 Regulator Clocks, for hotels or restaurants ..$5.40 Fine parlor Clocks, as shown in illustration, all the latest improvements and guaran teed timekeepers, with beau-, tiful enameled marbelized T&'Stay SAtlsfaCtoryTfAje Nothing - tan .make a more suitable Christmas gift than a per fect range. . It will be used everyT day m the year and several ttmes a day. Another range might do, but the Monarch is theljest. You will believe it if you come and see them or write for our free booklet cases; only ;f6.25 ( Only A V $1.25 $2.75 Ladies' Desks $5.00 Kmall ladles' or youths' Desks beautiful grained, golden oak finish ,.85.00 ai oait No. 200- -Highly ladles' desk, Inches wide; regular price J8.00 Special Rrice SS.05 lo. 71V r Imitation mahogany desk, just like plfcture, 112.50 polished real Special at ' 98.55 Morris Rocker $1.25 For children up to 10 years of age, made of solid oak, golden or mission finish, not toys, but useful as well as attractive. Same style, with seat and back upholstered in green or red. imitation leather, $1.75 The picture shows a chair, but what we have for sale are rockers of exactly the same pattern. 4M n V i . 7 , : (Si) ' Pi: V i uy BWwWwr Tw-Xtsv nsf actory ari w t - Monarch Range are indestruct ible; they need no blacking; they can be sold back to us for $30; they have most modern gas attach ments; they are priced from $57 to $135. , For cash we allow liberal discount. ft Brass Doll Beds ,65c $1.75 value., exactly like illustration. 18 J inches long, 11 Inches wide' and II ; Inches high, made, of hent brassed rods, complete with canopy -pillows and mat- ' tress, all covered In flowered cretonne, m Child's Iron Crib 56.75 White enamel iron child's crib, drop side, woven wire spring included; slse 2lxfi0 Inches $6.75 no. m linsmei iron cno, reversible sliding sides, brass rail and knobs, steel spring;; regular I12.7B. re duced -to 00.75 No. 1 S3 Best In town for the money, ' vernls martin finish, reduced from $9.00 to ...7.00 Cu af)Li citn only Almost Half Price We cannot make our " goods half price, be cause we do not mark them up to the enor mous prices you see in some stores. These par lor .cabinets are offered at actual cost, and that Is more than you get at the half price " boys' sales. No, 232 Regular $22.00, cost S15.0O No. 408 Regular $27.60, cost ..... ....S19.0Q No. 284 Regular uLoti, cost S31.00 No. 218 Regular $47.60. .654 Automatic Morris Chairs PU!e Racks M cost C33.00 Mm .OHflUK Of these we can say that our display Is exceptionally fine, the prices are right, and a home Is incomplete without one. No. 487 A. chair with beautiful plain lines, golden polished oak with, velour cushions, spring seat, we are. offering this week at special price 810.00 No. 1389 Massive heavily carved chair, automatic style, with velour cushions and spring seat, worth $21 special .-814.75 No. 243 Large chair, like illustration, rod back support, solid polished oak, value $16 special j 812.00 Made pretty will no of golden oak. a little rack that told six plates and nas nooks ior six cups. . ,Only a few of these, so come early if yob want one. Leather Covered Chairs and Rockers . About a dozen samples to be closed at very material reduction. No. 247 $26.00 chair, leather teat, back and arms, oak frame, at V 817.50 No. 469 $38.00 Rocker, feather seat and back, mahogany finish frame 821.00 No. 608 $27.60 Rocker, leather seat and back, oak frame 81 ftOO No. '6059 Overstuffed leather Rocker, like illustration: value $47.60 now only 833. OQ We do r.npholst.rlng and repair ing. Leather work a specialty. L Music Cabinets Thirty patterns to select from, f 7.65 to f 40.OO Your Credit Is Good HAIL ORDERS We solicit mail orders which will receive careful and prompt attention. Everything exactly as represented or money refunded. We pay freight on everything except special sale goods for 100 miles. Try us once, and you will trade no other place. pf y- I ' If Jt. 1111 1 Poriicrcs, lace? Curtains and ;' : Couch Covers We show an endless va-'-riety of different styles and prices; such goods are very appropriate for' Christmas gifts. You can ' get here a Good Couch Cover., ,$4 Good Portieres, pr. .85 Good Cluny Curtains, pair . ; .: . . ..... 86 f W have 'plenty xt low- ; priced gooos jn these lines ; for those who want thera. . Picldres 39c Subject fish and game just like Illustration, slse 12Vixl8 Inches, frame weathered oak, 1H Inches wide; very popu lar - for dining-room walls; value 76o spe cial 39 $3 Table for $1.9i Another excellent special for this week. Table exactly as Illustrated. Made of solid oak, good rub finish, top 24x24, French legs. No more than one to- a cus tomer, and no phone orders taken 81.05 DINNER SETS We make a specialty of cot tage) Wnner Sets which con tain 49 pieces giving Udosen of each needed article. We are offering these this week in fancy patterns with gold lines at ... 84.45 This Coucli $30 r Regular value' $40.00, solid oak framed with loose leather cushions. - This price one weeks only. - 'V j ' Special sale of - X.SA.TXSSSTTJ1 COVCKES : 1 $33.00 value this week ....... 819.00 See them before buying. Goods Delivered; the nations are aware that the United States 0ur-.5n " is supreme In the Pacific; ail It had It h to do as a friend of Chln . 5 "' ? ? . i . r. w iiu-j tinvs - wnen x nijr jui'nii iiim ine evacuatton of Man churia was desired, according to the terms of its own treatv with r.. t. A specific Interest of the United States' in that treaty was that President Room-I veil .. was ute -goarattier of that con vention. Increase Jraval roree. One peculiarly interesting and illumi nating fact connected with the - new Ireaty is that there has been no let up In the agitation at the White House nd. the. pavy department for an, in crease of the United States naval force in the Pacific. . It can be stated on the highest au thority that at the very time when the negotiations for this agreement were In progress, the administration was di gesting certainly two and perhaps three methods of maintaining a great fleet Jin the Paclflo, evidently for the "period of peace" to be brought about by this, agreement, ' Tk nrealdent has been aware, of s all course, of the oral negotiations between lananira ana secretary i a mens that on one of the no-J (i.va when Baron Takahlra and Mr. Root were agreeing on the phraseology of. tho articles of peace. Senator Flint called at the White House and had a long talk with the president on the ne cessity for maintains a first class bat tleship fleet in the Pacific. The positive statement was made to The Journal after Mr. Flint's interview that whle the president would not accede to the proposition to leave any of the 14) bat tleships now- In the Pacific in those waters the president agreed to send soms-of these battleships back to the Paclflo after their arrival here next February. An atlernstive plan which has been discussed simultaneously at the navy department was. to give the 16 .battleships a test and try out Ar nold's division with the battleships Ida ho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Maine and Alabama and the new great cruis ers of the Atlantic coast to California waters. - . There Is a seeming certainty, notwithstanding- the Roof-Japanese treaty that at. least five battleships will be added to the effective force in what Is known as the Paclflo fleet. ; Perhaps farseelng officials here are not sure that the Japanese agreement for a treaty will be ratified br the senate, and otherwise it. will be a dead letter. - plans Will Be Carried Out. ' Statins- these propositions, otherwise every plan made up to this time by this government for perfecting the Paclflo coast defenses, the enlargement of navy yards, the establishment .of .the great est dry dock in the world at Mswati, the mobilisation In the waters of the coast of a fleet to he alwavs superior to that of-Japan, "will 'continue. .The treaty,. even If signed, can -not take the place of legislation for the Paclflo coast, artd the questions- of Japanese immigration and local educational arrangements will still be a matter for congress, and spe cially the delegation from the Paclflo states.' It is admitted even hy the critics of the agreement that if it should be rati fied In Its entirety by the senate, the United States with her naval preponder ance In the Pacific jwilj become a greater factor than even England herself . in what Is known and in. what has been known for a half century, as the eastern question. . -. ----- : HEAVY MAN WILSON " ; GRANTED DIVORCE v v v--.;" . (Burst News by Longest Leased Wire.) New i York. Nov; S$. That James B. Wilson, aforetime matinee Idol and the "leading heavy" In "The Man ef the Hour' wss freed from. the . marriage yoke Decani Jsno-wa -today,' when it was announced that he had' been this week granted a divorcs from his wife, Mary E. Wilson. Wilson's suit was begun a year ago, but unusual efforts were made to keep the matter quiet and the testimony was taken In the office of the referee, Mark 8. Holstein. 1 Wilson's mother testified tP alleged indiscretions of the defendant . in the, Wilson home at Fairmont. N. T, while other witnesses told of doings at the Shoreham Inn, Shoreham, L. I., which influenced Justice Bischoff In the su preme court when the case came before him on final motion. ; Mrs. Wilson was the lesder of a Bo hemian set in the gay life of flan Fran cisco about IT years ago. Wilson was Slaying leads in a stock company at ist point and waapopular socially. His engagement was - announced to Miss McLaughlin, who was murdered at Santa Crus, Oal.. about a) year ago by her father. Major Frank McLaugh lin, politician and mining operator, who committed sui'clda after he. had killed his daughter. . - v Religioua differpriees were said -to be the cause of the breaking of thev'n gagement. and in a spirit of pique Wil son surprised his friends by marrying dashing Helen Woodruff, the nante by which the woman .whom the actor has just divorced was known. 5 . ' r T - r V- ' OIJ. & m TRAIN KR03T I , EAST VERY LATE. ' ' ' 1 i- : O. R. ft IT. train No. 1 du in'Poi t land at S:40 p.-m.,, one of the import ant trains from the east, was marked "indefinite" last night and at midnight It -was said by the comoany Officials that the train would arrive at about 6:30 o'clock this morning. The 'delay was in the east somewhere. probably In the mountains on account of heavy SnOWS. - : .,. i t.. -.-. , . , r ; Buy your 'Christmas gifts nowt save ZS per cent at Metzger'a. - . ' , ( . k
