The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-10
SENATOR BATE DEAD
DIsTIN0U1sHED TENNEssEAN PASS US PEACEFULLY AWAY.
The End Cane af Apartments In Wash tngton Hotel, With His Wife and
 Other Relatives at the Bed-

WaSnin8tOn, March 9.-(SpecfaL)- Senator Bate of Tennessee, died here at an early hour this morning.
 The death of Senator Bate came as deep shock to all but less than half dozen people who had apprehensions of his condition. Only last Saturday af- ternoon he was among the. Senators present at the east front of the capitol in attendance upon the inauguration ceremonies. He sat for some minutes in the open space reserved for the Sem ators. but becoming chilled by the stiff cold wind retired to the dome rotunda, where he sat for a while until cab could be summoned and then went to his apartments at the Ebbitt
 Here he kept hts room suffering from the effects of a severe cold. He did not himself seem concerned until Tuesday evening when he went to dinner in the main dining room of the hotel. He left the table and while going to his room was taken with hemorrhage. A physic- ian was summoned. who saw that not in his opinion alarming. There were symptoms of pneumonia, but the Senator himself had always been so bent on making light of his all ments that none of his friends were ap- prised of the gravity of the situation.
 Late last night his physician and grandson and secretary reported that the Senator was holding his own. and the efforts to prevent pneumonia ap- peared to be reassuring.
 At 3 o'clock the venerable Senator called attention to the fact that his heart was falling. He informed those about him that the end was near. He sank steadily despite the use of every hnf .g0 when he expired.
 With him at the last moments about his bedside were Mrs. Bate. Mrs. Car mack. wife of the junior Senator from Tennessee; Mrs. Ellis, guest of the Bates from their former home at Gal latin, Tennessee; his grandson. Bate Mastin, son of Thomas F. Mastin. for merly of Huntsville, Ala, but now of Grandview. Texas. and, his private sec retary, Robert w. Cantrell of Nashville, Tenn.
 The Senator was conscious to the last, and with mind remarkably clear directed the disposition of his affairs as though he were about to leave the city only upon a journey.
 He shook hands with each person in the room and his last thought was Of his native state, for the last thing he " Tennessee and be buried at Mount Oli- vet"
 That is a cemetery at Nashville in which are buried some children of the early years of his married life. The Senator's nearest surviving relatives are his wife, daughter and the child of brother, Captain Bate. who was kill ed at the battle of Shiloh, while Sena- tor Bate was commanding the End Tennessee regiment of infantry.
 Senator Carmack left the senior Sem ator only few days to go to Nashville on important business. expecting to re- turn before the end of the week. He has already started for Washington, and is expected to reach here tomor- row morning.
 All day today telegrams of sympathy and coincidence came to Mrs Bate from Tennessee and elsewhere, and the Eb- bitt House was filled with callers and veteran soldiers who had served on one side or the other of the Civil War in which the gallant dead man had been a distinguished and leading figure from the beginning to the end. z Meetings to take suitable action n respect to his memory have been called | for tomorrow at the Ebbitt House par lors of all ex-Confederate veterans IT the city, the daughters of the Confede' racy and all Tennesseeans resident anc visiting in Washington.
 | Senator Bate was In his seventy | ninth year and was just entering upor
 his third term, to which he had beer elected by the General Assembly ,oi Tennessee. now In session. The sitting Legislature will. no doubt, in due time at the present session elect his sue | cessor.
 His most formidable competitor 1T the recent race, Benton McMillin, today wired his sympathy and regret to Mrs Bate. The remains are to go to Tennes'
 see by the Southern Railway by schedule which will carry the funera | party through most of the State cover | ed by the system. entering Tennesset at Bristol, thence by Knoxville to Chat tanooga and on to Nashville, reaching
 Nashville on Sunday morning. | R. H. Watkins.