Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-08
TON cARTEn's "swAN song"

Chicago News: Senator Carter's swan
song in the United States senate saved the
country nearly $50, 900, 600. May the senator
live to sing again!
indianapolis News: Senator Carter re-
tires from the senate, but he goes out in a
blaze of glory. He has cost the country but
$4,000 and has saved it nearly sj0,0OO,000
TO say nothing Of the good example he set.
Chicago Post: The foiing of the villain
in melodrama is a perpetual source OF de-
light and Senator Carter's epilogue, sup
| piled impromptu, to the senate tragic farce
accords with the fitness of things. Had he
| done nothing else in his senatorial career
this ten-hour speech against a measure
reeking with fraud would have made his
service memorable
Boston Globe: When a senator, whether
! he halls" from Montana or Mississippi, is
able, almost at the end of his term OF
service, TO talk to death" in the closing
hours OF session measure which un-
questionably commanded the approval and
| support OF a majority in the upper branch
of our national legislature. a victory" in
| deed has been gained in name, but one
of an exceedingly doubtful character. 1t is
not In the least in the line Of popular
| legislation.
| New York World: Senator Carter OF
| Montana certainly gave a dramatic finish
to his otherwise undlstinguished career in
| the senate. In the very last day OF his
service he won for himself unique fame
| as the only senator who ever cut down the
| appropriations OF congress by $50 900 600
by the use OF his own unalded eloquence.
| And besides this Mr.. Carter's killing speech
on the river and harbor bill deprived several
democratic senators of the rewards Of their
| surrender OF principle on the Philippine and
Cuban amendments.
New York Times: 1t is well that Senator
| Carter's valedictory should have been such
as to make all men say that nothing in
his service in the senate became him like
| the leaving II. Doubtless there are, in the
thus defeated bill. projects which are i'm
portant and essential to the development
| OF our waters. But in most river and
| harbor bills, and very particularly in this,
these things are as two grains of wheat
| to two bushels of chaff. 1t Is, upon the
whole. very good thing that the senator
from Montana should have been inspired by
any worthy or any unworthy motive to talk
the bill to death.
Detroit Free Press: Hats off to the Hon
Thomas Henry Carter OF Montana, the man
who talked the Infamous river and harbor
| bill to death in the last hours of an expiring
| congress. What the democrats in the
house, frenzied by the odor of pork refused
| to do, a republican senator from western
mining state did, and did nobly. In spite
| of the sneers of his colleagues democratic
and republican alike, Senator Carter talked
| and talked-and talked. He talked through
tho cold gray hours OF the morning; he
talked through the warmer hours of n
| spring-like forenoon. He talked until Il
was impossible for the senate to remain in
| session any longer. and when he had fin
ished the river and harbor bill was an un-
consummated steal 1t makes little differ.
ence what the senator said. Nobody lis
tened to him except the official reporters
and the curious correspondents. 1t makes
no difference whether his speech was elo-
quent or tedious. whether his periods were
beautifully rounded or as Jagged as piece
of Montana quartz. He talked the bill to
death, and that was enough. 1t was the
most valuable speech made in the Fifty
sixth congress, and the man that made it
deserves well OF his kind.