THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1915. RICH MEN DINE WITH , ROOSEVELT, TALK OF HIS RUNNING REVIVED Head of Steel Corporation Is Host and Most of the Very Rich Are There as Guests, POLITICIANS ARE UNEASY Some Say They Do Hot Think Bland ishments of Wealth Can Force Re publican to Accept Roosevelt. Washington, )p, 20. ('. P i- Anv bndy can have a gue-s as to u li:it oriel Koosevelt is K'jir.t; t' de, m the coming am ai :i. lie is tbe best ioie upsetter m politics and !.is at tendance at t'.c Hary Jiiu.it last I'ri duy may hae meant a iajwerful lot or may not. Summarized, this Is the view of poli ticians here today " concerning wh it the leader of tiie Kullmoose lias :n mind. Frankly t.'.ev are up in the air. Senator I'.orah, himself a c.'md.date In the presidential lists, was r i.ary " advancing an opinion. Senator e'lapp. an ardent Koosevelt tnan, d- larcd "I ee no political significance in the din ner. Koosevelt has had enough ex perience with those een'ienien to with stand t.'.tir blar.'lishmcr.ts." Folndexter Withholds Comment. At tl " same time, Senator Poln dexter, Propre.sh Kepubli -an. sail: "Roosevelt has a n?! ?- to attend a private ilmner and it isn't for me to con; rue n t." On tl.. nt'-.ir hand. Representative Curry of California had this comment: "I do ri"t thir.k that any combination of rich can club the Ktj.ubllcan party Into nominating any ma::. I gue.ss the dinner was merely to throw bouque's at the colonel. Tim R'-puMican candi date will be nominated l.y the party, and I do not thu.k that Rooaoveit ha-S a chance.'' Hitchcock Gets Busy. Those who have pou-wowed with the colon. -1 re- ei.tly declared that he will !:o' be sucked out concerning hl proh.o'.e candid.T'v. He told them that h.. wouid support a Kepubllcan like 11'jKiies. Hadlej, Johnson or Knox, bit he tab"Oed Root. Iopcs!crs, tt:n::i;ii. saw a connection be.tw.-n a Kicsevelt boom, and the visit of ! rank Hit hco K, ier postmaster general, to t! e na .tl com m it t e. meeting. 1 1 1 T h- ocit red the Repibiicin mn hirie for : in l'."" under Koose ,.; a orders. rr.irig his mission here. Hitch- k said that he woj nuieiy renew--.ng ol 1 l'r; ndhins. Would Support Cum mint. A ' ordn g to a politician who has reen lluux'c It w.thin a month, his po sition is: lie is not a candidate himself, under a r. v t-ir- :;n:staii' es. If the K-p ibli-ans nominate anyone lomi. cted with tlie theft In Ch;. ago" w 111' n rs'ilt. d in formation of the l: ill Mooe a tion. the coloi., 1 wi.l fight Hat candidate and the party. lie wiU support a man oi the "Cum ni'.ns t.pe,' if honui.atcd by the Re pute leans. He will sti.mglv nppnse President Wil-on uti'lcr all e-1 rc u ms t . in . .-. " I do not think t! at Uurt'ci, Root or Vt cks will satisfy him," said the pop,, tp-iaii. Rossibly !n;a!i would, though. I do not expect i loose', el t to make a pi PI;, statement tor e,era! montus." The oliv.ous conclusion, drawn ,iv polit'cal followers is that the dinner was regarded as a "boom affair ' for Koo.-'V. It as a I r- s id-i. : la 1 nom ine in l'-l S. N r.e cu.d be found v bo w oul I confirm this. Judge Gi.y declined to ilis the dinn. ; I'.'l.ii'.c Roos. v. it was .piotod as saying it was private unci of no political si;'r,if ati.e. Guests All Wealthy. Follow ing- is a r. sum. I'resl Dm lien;-'' It ik Nntional bank. Frank N.it:.-nal Vi'y barh. A A. Coff.n, head o 1'.'. ctt ic compan y ; i i o you, president of ti Ceis company and fo vi It's secretary, pan:.; A. F.arton 1 1 pb'irn. bank, Frank R. Ki'll.'c Hoquiam Gets Next State Elks' Reunion Outbids Wenatchee and Tacoraa for Stats Convention, Which Will Mean Gathering- of 3000 JText August. Hoeuulam, Wash., Dec. 20 It has been decided by the executive ro-n-mlttee of the Washington State Rlks Reunion association to hold trie l&lo state- convention of the Order at Hoquiam. The gathering will occur some time In August. Wenatcf.ee and Tacoma were Keen bidders for the convention, wnicn will bring here between 25u'J and i'ZiV vis itors. Re au.-e the state convention bad never ben held at Oravs taroor arid because the Invitation from hero was bo pressing, both from the lodge and the commercial club, the vote of the committee was unanimous for Ilocjuiam. PRIORITY CLAIMS IN LAND GRANT CASE IS RECOGNIZED IN BILL Sen, McCumber Makes First Move in Litigation Involv ing 0, & C, Property. $50,000 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MAY REVERT TO ROOSEVELT'S POCKET Money Given for Peace Prop aganda Lacked Support of Additional Sums, Billy Sunday Gets $23,000 at Syracuse lng arcs and the low hanging greenery Saturday night motley merrymakers milled to and fro. At this corner stood the Salvation Army lassie beside" her swinelnff kettle. On that was the Voi- mlng on his guitar and blowing wall- Injr melodies through a mouth organ. Hack In the shadow lurked the chest nut man. Outside the curt strode a sandwich carrying a banner that ap- j unteer of America with his imitati n pealed to holiday shoppers. Evcrynn? Noted ryttgslist Addresses Total of i chimney, each appealing for aid for had something to do. and the Christ- Wash, npton, I pc 20. (WASHING TON Hl'KKAi; OF Till: JOFRNAR) Theodore Roosevelt will be $50,000 richer if congress passes a bill pro posed by Senator Iodsje, under which there would be returned to the ex president the rash Nobel peace- prize awarded to him while president In l'J'o;. Roosevelt turned the money over to the Foundation for the I'romoti'in of Industrial Peace, for which congress provided, with the expectation that 1 ditional funds would be received by Kift or becpiest, but tlnre have been no additions to the R.,Sevi!t dona tion, and the income from that alone is not enouKu to make a showing. It Is expe, ted that congress will re turn the fund to Roosevelt, alter mak iriR sue h deductions a-- may be needed to wind up the wotk of tie tiusteea. 911,000 People During; Seven Weeks Campaign Concluded Yesterday. Syracuse. N. Y.. Dec. 10. (I. N. S.) Billy Sunday concluded his evangel istic campaign of seven weeks here Sunday nicht. During the day be ad dressed 5" 'hoi persons at four taber- j nacle iiipehnts. i The campaign here was distinctly 1 successful. The thank offering was i $L'3.1 ! J 3 7 . The total attendance at1 the ir.fetinE-.s was '.M1.0"0 and the "trail hitters" nun. here. 1 112.499. j Mr. and Mrs. Sunday have left for Winona Lake, Ind . to rest before ; opening the.r campaign at Trenton, N. j J., one week from today. t the needy. Well within the glare of a mas spirit somehow permeated the air. show window Rat a blind man, strum- though with none of the bleakness of weather that finds the merrymakers of other climes. InTented Spark Tlug. Ontario. Cal.. Dec. 20 (P S Pi A'.bert Karle Canedy. millionaire In ventor of the breech lock sp.uk plug, is dead here today, following a nervous tineas extending over mrN year, Canedv was 42 years old aid unrnar rled. The prediction that Europe will b In a state of anar -hy after the war- .4 111 nn I W ... , . n nl.,. V vatlon. EARLY SHOPPING IS SLOGAN FOR SCORES ON SATURDAY NIGH T Washington. Pec. 20. (WASHING TON EFREAi; OF THF, JOFRNARt The first move to recognize the "rights" of interveners In the Oregon &. California :and grant c .use cnrr.es be fore congress In a Joint resolution in troduced by Senator M Cumber of North Dakota. The resolution Is entitled. "For the relief of applicants to purchase land? under the terms "f a land grant to the Oregon A.- ('alifornla Railroad com pany," anil provides: "That nil such persons who ha 1 made application for the purchase of any of said lands from the said Ore gon & California Railroad company or Its su c.s.-. TS prior to the com mencement cif action i hy the govern mentt In the cir -uu court of appeals for the Ninth district shall have a prior and preferential right for thr purchase of the tra t apl l:i for. not Dry lock fop Soattle. Wii"-:.,;!. ci, Dec. I.'1. Cnr.irrcssman Humphrey, representing the Seattle dist Met, has .ntr.iuced a bill appro priating $3. i for a dry dock, not less tnan 1" 0 f. .-t long and larire, enouirh i ae rimmo.Jate the largest battleship, at the I'-ge-t Sound navy ard. All Classes of Stores Feel Ef fect of Christmas Trade Advice Present Season, Thousands of early Saturday h i aid staved with went out When t m -. s t f r:ou s bu nd 1 . Portia: ders shopped -fit They bt gall early it unt.l tlie liguts icy started for home. s under arms arm mv sterio. for: tioi, St. ( Ta! on exceeding l.o acres to one person. a. c.in upon pavment or tender thereof to the , ., , ars fr, said railroad company or Its S li ces- i l sors at the rate of $2. SO per acre with- in one year from and after the pas sage of this .v t " The Mc'-itiln-r plan would thus e ! pralize the '.aims that were said to I have r.o standing by the I'nited States $.-0,000,000 for Keclaniation. Wa-.iiit.gton. Dec L'ih - A ..thurizat on for the is je of i.OvO In certificate,- of Indebtedness for the purpose of making iulvaii'-i s to the reclamation f :nd for the completion of existing projects Is proposed in a bill by i 'oiigressman Smith of Idaho. Ha would have, sabs made as additional 1 u ids are iioiied, in addition to amounts heretofore set aside for recla mation puipo-os. The money thus i raised would b. ret irned to th treas I cry In v.-ariy l list a '. ' m n t s aft- r five j years bv setting aside ly per cent of , the re'.ipts from tlie r'-cla mat leu ! fund ea. h year until all the f .ncls ad j van. c an- returned. It is provided that the certificates may be taken up i at any time after thred !:ite of issue. WIT s i-.reme court. It would not be re-Ic-iired that the claimant became an actual settler or aid anything mora than fender $-.50 an acre for the land ! prior to the time the government suit i was leg-.in. Alwit 10n0 bu h clalm i ants would thus be given their pick I of the most valuable quarter sections in the entire tract. I TTanrls Down Rat De-clslon. Washington, Dec. 2". The Inter ' state Commerce Commission haa granted the appii -atlon of the Oregon- Washington Kailroad & Navigation ' company f"r itself and the Cuget Sound A: Wlllapa Harbor railway to es tablish class and commodity rates be I tween Portland. Fast Portland. Alhina, j St. Johns, Kenton and North Portland, and Raymond, Wash., the same as con current ra'es between these points via the Northern Pacific, and to main tain higher rates at intermediate points on the Puget Sound .V Willala road, but not exc eeding those for same or cross-co'intry stations west of 'he-haiis. The permission Is granted I under restrictive provisions of the fourth section of the Interstate com . mcrco ac t. A Real Xmas Present. Instead of kni'-knacks. give th a r.-al present, by pure! aii.(; one oi' i ur first iiiorttaiif farm i.d l-eari:.-, 7 j cr cent interest per annum, vv.t i semi-annual .. ipecp-s Yn 1 c an g' t th.uu in d't'om nat ions of Jli"j and $rni Get tie family started in the habit t" save and to appreciate real v: See J p Ilartog, manager, at ;e-,f stark, ii-ar Fourth. (Adv.) highly transparent smiles on faces fold of the Christmas jc ;. s now In anti i pat n. With the street Intersections ablaze from the .suspend--.! elec tric d"iii'S and ;th.e retail t here. ugh f a i fs long lines of light, downtown Portland Saturday ! night was at its be--; Crowds of people j thronged alone,- unde r the evergreen I festoons, and in no st of the store s the i sab s people had. nil they c uld do. While, the toy d.partni.nts f.-it tie greatest i-ffr It. of the shoppers' raid, ii 11 the oilier departments weie like wise be.-e t. J one merchant estimated that bis sales Pater. lay ntght would surpass the Sa.urdiv before I'hrtstn.us of last e-ar by n.anv hundteols of doliars- The peestof rr. .nd express olti'-s we re busy pi o s throughemt the even ing It Wa e first Iiigiit shift for !the epresF p.- pic, but they found lit tle tin .- for lei-nre I - n. p. 1 1. y had s 'in.. Iiciud.ng trees. evergreen festoons. pette-d jiants and strings of lights. liut in s;lfe f t he h.e.i v y shopping ci ' . la-t we. k ancl espec ially of Saturday, 1'Oth rnere-han'd and express people look for the real "'rush" to take place : The Well s l argo spec ial de-' orations. t r week. Hy Friday night Christ mas eve it Is expected that little will be left. On the streets beneath the glimmer- Ri'harcl V. Dm. labor.-. Clu re nee H. M a. ka v S.-hiff: Cornelius ", Frederick A'. Whitiidg bassador to Spain. or t : e gu'-sts : r . f the First A. Yaridcrlip. ,-ust P.eln.'U.t ; the ( ' :: ral II. Cortel- I "oi'.soll'iate 'l ne rly Ito -s.-'I'ln irei n he-im : ;ase National of St. Paul; New York; Jacob 1 1 'dor! :lt, and ', funiPT ani- T. C Secures Headquarter. Chicago. Dec. .'a. -, r. i Pelief Cat Colonel Roosevelt will participate in tin' forthcoming campaign ga n. d groTind today when it was .oimit'cd ti at his friends had taken an option on trie Florentine room at the Congress hotel. It was here- that he held nl!.-.i previously. The option expires tomor row, and meantime. A I i i 1 1 M. i 'oriiii- rc, who ci; !' rre-d w:tu Roosevelt S.tur iay is speeding here 'to report t.io colnnel's ele ision The option w.,s made last week fol low i"tr a ..fi.ee,,. utw.eu ;. orge I'.r'.: and Harold l.-k.-s. Illinois Rullruoo: e chairman. M . e . r :r,i . k at tended t.e Gary di: r.er at New York Friday at w.ch R....seve!t. Perkins and a number of :i;:an. ars were guests. Rector's Wife Killed By Motor Hearse (P. N. ne. wife h is onal and her Aberdeen. Wash. Dec 2 ". P - Nirs. Frederick W. c.ree of the rector of the To- 1 1 1 ! :ri-h, is dead here today. daughter. Miss Klizabeth Greene, is suffering from painful injuries as the result or' beine struck by an aut "mo bile hearse while on their way to church last night. The women were holding an umbrella as protection against the storm, and did not sea tlie approaching automobile. Year A o in War December 30, 1914. FVench claim new- gains In Flande-s and announce they have organized the territory south of I:xm l ie. which was won by them on the previous day. Allies advance one kilometer south cf I-a Rassee. Austrians are driven back In their rew offensive on Rzura river, retro rad announces. ASK FOR and GET HORLICKfS THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK eSep nbetitates cost YOU umo prlc. Williams n Convention Committee Washington. De.-. 2h- Ralph F. Wil liams, Republican n; lonal committee- i man from Oregon, Is the only far! western member selected on the spe- j rial committee to arrange for the Chi-i e ago convention, a pl.c e that was j much sought. This committee will . name the temporary chairman for the! convention and other temporary cfl'.-J iers. I Mr. Williams, after a fhort visit In the east, will return to Portland and prepare for an extended stay at Chi cago next year. lie expects to go to the convention city about March 1, to remain until after the convention. Is over. 20,000,000 Available 129,398 in Militia Report of General Mills Shows Ziess Than 1 Per Cent of Americans of Military Ag-e In Training'. Washir gtor., Dec ,- -.( if 20.000.0 0 0 male-s sliown hy the census to be of military age between IS and 44 IL'a.afe'e are n-.embe-s of the militia, Rrigadler General Miles showed in ins report. WILL YOU BE ONE? Only Six More Memberships (Out of the original 200 memberships) Left in Our Special Sewing Machine Club Where You Can Buy the Famous "The Free" 5c Down, 5c Additional Each Week When the six machines are sold, the Club will be closed, and the regular terms will prevail. Get your sewing Machine early to morrow morning, before they are gone. You cannot afford to miss a chance like this the world's best Sewing Machine, "THE FREE," sold for 5c down and 5c additional for a few weeks until paid. Pifth Ploor c Merchandise of cJ Merit Only" TDLEASED? well, rather He found at Moyer's for $15, just the suit he wanted, so he's $5 Christ mas money in pocket, for he expected to pay $20 Real money-savers Moyer clothes. Good Suits and Overcoats for $15.00 that would cost you more at uptown stores. rvs ssx Second and Morrison Third and Oak I t?k m it'so!i I.-:. . IX If"? jm v. 11. 1 r. -t.:" i- i-rif -fi -r- -if--:-JliSiWta.'fa.afctjig i V: Zi" Where Will YOU ? Do Your Christmas Shopping.' It's a Vital Question for You And of Vital Importance to Us We seek your Christmas patronage we want it on merit based upon the integrity of the merchandise and the fairness of price. This store has never knowingly sold merchandise that would not, in every instance, measure up to its slogan, "Merchandise of Merit Only," or was not worthy of the confidence of its patrons. This store does not quote prices or indulge in the use of broad price comparisons to convey the impression of extreme economy. Nor does it believe in making preposterous claims of patronage, or honest dealing the public is not commending a store for "years of hon est dealing" honesty is no boast. To claim honesty is to arouse sus picion. Confidence, Service, Efficiency are the ideals upon which this store s. hopes to increase and hold its patronage. To call things by their right names to price them upon a fair basis never to sacrifice quality for price never to offer merchandise lacking in intrinsic worth. To provide comfort in shopping, a spacious, well -lighted, perfectly ventilated, SAFE store, with wide aisles, in which your convenience ever comes first. No crowding, no jostling, no struggling mobs to battle your way through, NO BARGAIN TABLES WITH SHODDY, CHEAP CATCH - PENNY BARGAINS. Rather a quiet, comforting air, efficient salespeople to assist you with polite attention SERVICE WITH A SMILE in short, a store that hopes from every point of Christmas Preparedness to merit your Christmas patron age and make your holiday shopping pleasant and easy. When in Doubt Give a Glove Order or a Merchandise Bond Sold here for any amount, and good at any time. Spe cial Booth, First Floor. YrSlserit Only" Holiday Bazaar On the Second Floor Hundreds of Christmas Gifts Nothing Over $2.00 Store Open Tonight From 6 to 9 o'Clock