The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-18
SENATOR CARTER 0F MONTANA DIES Noted Man Succumbs to
 Lung Trouble REMARKABLE CAREER Official Life at Washington Covered Period of P Years-He Defend
 ed Rivers and Harbors
 Appropriation
REMARKABLE CAREER

Washington September T.-Former United States senator Thomas. Henry Car
 ter of Montana. many years notable and l,ies essnasQne chag.tcler in national poi- itics ard once chairman of the republican
 natlonal committee, died at his home early tliie morning of infraction of the lungs. lie was S5 years of age.
 MT. Carter had been under the care
 of physician for months. He was able
 to go about. however, and his ailment. a
 failing of the lungs with .clotted blood,
 did not become acute until about week
 ago Baltimore specialist was sum
 moned last Wednesday and at that lime
 the attending physician expressed conn
 dence In the patients recovery, but the
 mai lady became worse and death resulted
 at 5 o'clock this morning. The funeral
 will be held in this city at 10 a. m. Tues
 day. Interment will be here.
 MT. Carter had. remarkable, career.
 extending over p years of official life
 at Washington This embraced service
 as the first representative elected from
 Montana two terms in the United States
 Serate and executive positions as com
 missioner of the general land office, chair
 man of the republican national commit
 tee, in the second and unsuccessful cam
 paign of Benjamin Harrison for the pres idency, president of the board of United
 States commissioners for the Louisiana
 Purchase exposition at St. Louis, and
 since last March chairman of the newly
 created international joint commission,
 American section, especially charged with
 Canadian boundary matters.
 Perhaps the most remarkable of his
 forensic achievements was his defeat of
 a big river and harbor appropriation bill
 during the Mckinley administrations. Pres-
 ident Mckinley did not favor the bill and
 MT. Carter, always a strong administra-
 ton supporter, began a speech against it at 10:3O o'clock at night and talked continuously until noon of the day fol- lowing, when the session of Congress expired. lf l. As alieutenant of Senator Aldrich he did notable work. At one time MT. Car ter was mentioned as a possible suc- cessor of Assistant Justice Moody of the supreme court of the United States and it was said President Taft had consid- cred him for Secretary of the Interior to succeed Richard A. Ballinger. Mir. Carter had been mentioned as possible head of the republican national commit Itee for the campaign of 1912. His defeat by a democrat for re-elec- tion to the Senate caused MT. Carters s retirement from that body March 1 last. President Taft then named him mem Der of the. international commission. He | framed and fought for conservative legis- lation opposed to extravagance in irri- gation projects and campaigned for the | Taft Canadian reciprocity bill. .fSgt et9fs F..sfs Washington, September I,-The hon. orary pallbearers will be Chief Justice White and Associate Justice McKenna of the United States supreme court; James A.. Tawney and Frank g.. Streeter, members of the joint high commission; Senators Brandegee, Pen
 rose and Crane; ex-Senator William E. Candler of New Hampshire, Hannis | Taylor of Washington state and At ltorney General A. q. Glenn of Mon tana who Is in the east now. sss