Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-10
A BRIEF RESUME
OF SENATOR CARRIERS LEGISLA-
TIVE WORK FOR CONSTITU-
ENTS.
HIS GREAT CAPACITY FOR WORK
Has Had Many Important Committee
Assignments and Charge of
Alaskan Legislature.
Washington, D. c., May 5, 1900.

In these days of political primaries,
nominating conventions and fast APP
preaching elections it is interesting and
important to study the field of candi-
dates for reelection as they appear at
Washington.
Your average representative is new
playing his best cards, making his
strongest bids for your renewed suffrage
and his return to congress, and is con
sequently at present seen at his best in
the national halls of legislation.
In impartially reviewing the work of
western statesmen, however, l have
carefully studied and measured their
strength, and so far from it being my
purpose to draw comparisons, l do think
it both just and fitting in this letter to
simply point to the work of the eminent
gentleman who so nobly and honorably
represents the state of Montana in the
United States senate-Senator Thomas
Henry Carter.
1t has been my pleasant fortune to be
at the national capital during the entire
present session of congress. Coming
here from the west, it was only natural
that | should observe the work of our
statesmen. In doing this l became par
ticularly impressed with the fact that
the interests of Montana and the west
generally We're in very able and ener-
Sellc ndlQS, D0CduSe llS dlttiiliol was
especially attracted to the public occu-
patton of Senator Carter.
His capacity for work. as tested in the
committee room and upon the floor of
the senate, seems to have nc pounds.
In this respect he is the marvel of his
colleagues, who seek his influence and
follow his lead. AS is we'll known. Sem
ator Carter's party has always appre-
ciatively honored him. and he has al
ways stood high in it's councils: but sue
cessful as he has been in party politics
and other spheres of public usefulness.
his main opportunities came to him in
the United States senate, where during
the past four years he has stood up to
his full stature as a wise and energetic
representative and as a statesman the
peer of any.
There are few men in the senate who
have more important committee assign
ments than Senator Carter, and he is
regarded as one of the hardest workers
in that body. He is chairman of the
mmit on the census. and he is the
author of the excellent law under which
the twelfth census will be taken. He is
a very active member of the committee
on territories and has had charge of the
legislation connected with the growing
district of Alaska. The bill for the civil
government of Alaska, which has passed
the senate, embodying something over
900 pages, is a striking evidence of his
industry and untiring energy. 1t is
doubtful if any Legislation has been at
mp III recent years or greater mag
hltude or one that required more re-
search and persistent work than the bill
for the clNll government OF Alaska.
Senator Carter is also an active MEM
Der Of the following additional commit
tees: Appropriations. military affairs.
postottires and post roads. public lands
and forest reservations. Having been
commissioning of the general land office
and being thoroughly familiar witt the
land and mining laws of the United
States, he is recognized as a valuable
membe of the committee on public
lands.
AS an illustration of Senate Carriers