12 Uptown Business Men Send Forth Some Mln Progress FEBRUARY FURNITURE SALE i ' '''' " ' ''' One of Our opecidis—Complete Mission Suite as Cut $45.00 CASH or CREDIT Buy Paying the Handler Way l>R. PRATT DIES tist Publication Society of New York there in 1905 to become assistant Pla infield, X. J., Feb. 11.—The Rev. died yesterday in his home here. Dr. the Rev. Dr. Russell H. Comvell Dr. William Woodbury Pratt. 62 years Pratt for thirty years was pastor of Philadelphia, where he remained old. secretary of the American Bap- the Baptist church in Passaic, leaving years. I'hii d .11"! Kroa.i Sll eet- Opposite Market House. Robinson's "Uptown Departm We Forget Profit and Original Cost For the Next Two Weeks—Every Piece of Winter Merchandise Comes off our shelves and is marked at such astonishingly low prices that you can't afford to let this event go by. \ circular, containing full account of this sale, has been left in every house in Harrisburg. Read it and be convinced of these most unusual savings. If you don't have a circular, come anyway. But only come and come early. Some of the items can't last long. Sale Starts Saturday, February 12, at 8 O'clock February Furniture Sale A carload of Bed Davenports just unloaded and placed in this Sale at Record Breaking February Prices These are not Davenports made especially for this sale. Everyone of them is a regularly made, high-grade Davenport and guaranteed satisfactory in every way. The only cheap thing about them is the price. A Good Felt Mattress A Good Felt Mattress Free With Every ree With Every Davenport Davenport Our February sale is full of big furniture bargains. Better take a look at our values this month before making your purchase. We can save you money. , r ] Brown & Co., HF CREDIT 1217-19 North Third Street FUM.SHERS FRIDAY EVENING, * HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 11, 1916. QUITS BECAUSE ARMY PLAN IS OPPOSED [Continued From First Page.] HENRY C. BRECKENRIDGE. adwvocacy and was still trying to get ! Congress to adopt it. The President, his friends said. j worked with Congressional leaders on the currency, tariff and other hills, and through making some cessions, was able to get bills which he finally j approved. He still feels that it is best j to pursue the same policy in dealing j with the army and Philippine ques- j tions. Technically the war department to- j day was without a head, although j Major General Hugh Scott, chief of j staff of the army was ranging officer.! Will Not Delay Congress Under an existing executive order, | General Scott, in the temporary ah- 1 sence or illness of the Secretary the; Assistant Secretary would become act- j ing secretary. The judge advocate I general to-day decided that neither | Mr. Garrison nor Mr. Breckenridge! were "temporarily" absent, and i therefore the order was without ecect. ! A new executive order designating General Scott as secretary ad interim was immediately drawn up. The or-J der authorizes General Scott to per form the duties of Secretary of War for a period not to exceed thirty days "until a Secretary of War shall have been appointed and shall have quali fied. "Congress will proceed to comple tion 01' a military program without re gard tothe resignation of Secretary Garrison," said Chairman Chamber lain, of the Senate Military Affairs Committee to-day after a meeting of the committee. "The resignation will have 110 effect one way or the other upon the military committees of the Senate or the House. Personally I very much regret his resignation. Mr. Garrison was a forceful man and one of positive views which he was not afraid to stand by. Unfortunately his continental army plan was not popu lar in the military committees of Con gress, or did it. meet with the views of a majority of the members in the Senate and the House." The Senate committee decided to begin next Monday the work of fram ing the army reorganization bill. Dindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War, was regarded as the ablest and strongest of the advisers of the admin istration. < >fficlal Washington was amazed when the announcement was made that Mr. Garrison had resigned. Twice before it had become known that Mr. Garrison was on the verge of resign ing. Major-General Scott, chief of staff of the army, automatically be comes Secretary of War ad interim. Since six months ago, when Presi dent Wilson reversed himself on his preparedness program, newspapers published the fact that Mr. Garrison had previously threatened to resign if he were not supported. An official denial was issued at the White House that Mr. Garrison had ever had any intention of leaving the Cabinet. The Text of Resignation and Its Acceptance War Department, Washington, Feb. 10. 1916. My Dear Mr. President: I am just in receipt of yours of ! February 10, in reply to mine of j February 9. It is evident that we j hopelessly disagree upon what X conceive to be fundamental prin ciples. This makes manifest the impropriety of my longer remain- j ing your seeming representative | with respect to these matters. 1 hereby tender my resignation as Secretary of War, to take effect ! at your convenience. Sincerely yours, LINDL.EY M. GARRISON". The President. The White House, Washington, Feb. 10, 1916. My Dear Mr. Secretary: I must confess to feeling a very I great surprise at your letter of to day. offering your resignation as j Secretary of War. There has been \ no definite action taken yet in either I of the matters to which your letter of yesterday referred. The whole matter is under debate and all the j Influences that work for clarity and judgment ought to be available at tliis very time. But since you have felt obliged to take this action, and since it is evident that your feeling* in the j matter >s very great indeed, I feel 1 that X would be only imposing a j burden upon you shorld I urge you to retain the secretaryship of war while I am endeavoring to find a I successor. I ought to relieve you at once, and do hereby accept your | resignation, because it is so evi dently your desire that I should [ do so. I cannot take this Important step, | however, without expressing to you my very warm appreciation of the j distinguished service you have ren dered as Secretary of War, and I am sure that in expressing this ap- j preciation I am only putting into i words the Judgment of our fellow citizens far and wide. With sincere regret at the action ! you have felt constrained to take. Sincerely yours, WOODROW WILSON. Hon. Ivindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War. «■ resignation announced last night, how- I ever, was the culmination of a strained j situation which has existed for nearly i a year, or ever since Mr. Garrison formulated his program for the expan j sion of the army. Garrison Slates Position Following: an interview between the President and Mr. Garrison on the | army plans the Secretary wrote the ; President, specifically stating his po j sitton. The President informed him j that Mr. Hay had told him a federal j volunteer system could not be obtained and that the same end could be j achieved by utilizing the State troops and making appropriations to pay to i the States on condition that the fed eral government control the militia. Mr. Garrison then replied that the I continental army plan absolutely dis i carded a military system based upon State troops and that the two systems were diametrically opposed to each j other and are irreconcilable. "We are I challenged," he wrote, "by the exist ! ins situation to declare ourselves ! promptly, openly and unequivocally or I be charged properly with lack of sin | cerity and good faith." He added that I since Mr. Wilson's word was llnal, he j did not wish to cause any embarrass- I ment and would withdraw if it would | relieve the situation. I The President wrote in reply that he I and the Secretary agreed that the chief ! thing necessary for the army was "that 1 we should have a trained citizen re i serve and that the training, organ ization and control of that reserve ; should be under immediate federal direction." He declined, however, to j take an irrevocable stand on the ! ground that it would not be proper for \ him to say to a committee of Congress ! that it would have to take his plan or I none. He declared he did not believe ! members of the House dealing with military affairs was ignorant of the : military necessities of the nation, but had found them well informed. He said he would welcome a frank interchange of views, but added, "no one will expect me to acquiesce in any | proposal that I regard as inadequate or illusory." Should a bill be presented to him which he could not accept as accom- J plishing the essential thing sought, he said, it would be his duty to veto It and go to the country on the merits. The views of the President and Mr. | Garrison were reviewed in other let- ! ters. which culminated in the offering i and acceptance of the Secretary's resig- | nation. Continental Army l'lan President Wilson has supported the i | continental army scheme antl continues | to believe that it is the best plan for ] strengthening the army. He has made \ it plain, however, in speeches and in : talks with congressional leaders, that I the main thing is to get a large re serve for the United States army and ; that the details must be worked but i through "common counsel." The President and Secretary Carri- , son have been close personal friends since the administration came into office and have stood together on prac- I i tically every question, i- Secretary Garrison has been a lead- j ing figure in President Wilson's official i family ever since the administration | | began. To his urging has been as- j cribed in part Mr. Wilson's determi- j ! nation to carry to the country his plea ' I for adequate national defense. Mr. Garrison began a close study of the military situation nearly two years I ago. He has devoted days and nights ! ! to the subject, beginning his inquiry, he has himself declared, with only u vague knowledge of the military his tory of the nation or of the problems . I presented in planning for defense I against any possible enemy. For! ! months it has been a common sight at j the War Department when he has | been in the city to sec the lights in his office blazing far into the night. . Surrounded by his bureau chiefs and * \ officers on staff duty, the Secretary \ j went into every aspect of the case with : j all the concentration he developed as a ! ' lawyer and a member of the New Jer j sey judiciary. I Out of that study came the plan for \ | the continental army and the corelated ; ! increases in the regular army and pro- j | pqsals for coast defenses and a huge reserve of war material which con- j } stitutes the administration prepared- j ness, so far as the army is concerned. I Behind that plan the President has ; stood. Mr. Garrison recently declared for j universal military training as a doc- ' | trine of democracy, although he said | ! he thought the nation not ready for ! such a proposal at this time. He has j repeatedly said both publicly and pri | vateiy that he was so full of the sub- j ! ject of preparedness and of the need * I for it as a result of his studies that he i dreamed of it at night and it was with him every waking moment. 1 The only organized opposition to Mr. Your Light Delivery Problems Solved 2K Cents Each That's a 12-montbs' record of one Hurley-Davidson three-speed twin with sidevan. The delivery cost of 2%c included every item of maintenance, Hucli as gasoline, oil and repairs, and even Included the driver's whites. All the details arc given in the new sidevan folder we have just pub lished and which will be mailed upon request to anyone interested. Figures talk and an authentic record like this means much to anyone about to purchase any equipment for light delivery purposes. More and more Harley-Davidson sTdevans arc being sold every day because these machines have demonstrated beyond question that they can be operated at less cost than any other delivery equipment on earth. If you are Interested in the question of deliveries. Write, call or phone for demonstration. HEAGY BROS. 1200 NORTH THIRD STREET. OPEN EVENINGS Garrison's proposals for tho army out side of Congress has come from mem bers of the National Guard. During committee hearings it was disclosed that the Secretary had offered to give his support to a militia pay bill, a plan i of which he disapproved in principle, i if the guardsmen would support his proposals "or the continentals. The ' Secretary later made public a letter to i Chairman Chamberlain, of the Senate | military committee, declaring himself j against the pay bills after the guards- 1 men had assailed the continental plan. Mr. Garrison is understood to have | been one of those Cabinet members who have stood most firmly for decla ration of the nation's rights in the de- ; liberations that have resulted from ; the Lusitania incident and the inter- | ruption of American commerce with neutral nations of Europe. Mr. Gar- j rison has himself declined positively to ! discuss any matter relating to Cabinet j meetings. When American troops were sent to | Vera Cruss to relieve Admiral Fletcher's j marines and sailors Secretary Garrison worked day and night in an effort to prepare the army for war in Mexico if that was to come. The echoes of the steps he then took to insure a prompt response by the National Guard in case of need and to provide for supplies and army equip ment in advance of the call for them i still reach Washington occasionally. In conducting the affairs of the War ' Department Secretary Garrison has started a campaign of decentralization, | which is yet to be completed. His j theory is that greater efficiency will j come from lodging responsibility di rectly with commanding officers, whether of companies or departments, and then compelling them to live up to that duty. Mr. Garrison is the third member of President Wilson's Cabinet to resign. The first. Justice Mcßeynolds, resigned as Attorney General to accept a seat on the Supreme Court. The second, William Jennings Bryan, resigned as Secretary of Slate because of differ ences with the President over the con duct of the submarine warfare contro versy with Germany. Pindell Denies He Has Been Offered Portfolio By Associated Press Peoria. II!., Feb. 11. —Henry M. Pindell, publisher of the Peoria Jour nal, mentioned in dispatches last ET K KREIDER SHOES the kind that wear for Hoys and Girls 49