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Show T.H, CARTER OF I MONTANA DIES I Washington, Sept. 17. Former H United States Senator Thomas II. H Carter of Montnnn, for years a not- M able and plcturesn.no character in na- H tlonal politics, once chairman of tho H Republican national committee and H sice last year chairman of the Amcr- H lean section of tho International com- H mission, died at bis homo today of In- H fraction of tho lungs. He was fifty- H soven years old. H Mr. Carter had been under iho caro H ot a physician for months. Ho wan H ablu to go nbout, however, and his H ailment, a filling or the lungs with B clotted blood, did not becomo acute H until about a week ago. A Baltimore specialist was summoned last Wed- H nniday and nt that timo the attend- H Ing physician expressed confidence H in tho patient's recovery. But tho H malady became worse and death re- H suited at 3 o'clock this morning. Mrs. H Carter and their, sous, studohts at H Georgetown university, were with H him when he died. H Mr. Carter had n remarkable career. B It extended over twenty-two years ot H cougrosslonal and official lifo at H Washington. This embraced sorvlco as M the first representative, elected from Montnnn, two terms In tho United M States Senate, nnd exocuttvo positions M us commissioner of tho general land M office, chairman of tho Itepubllcun na- H tlonal comraltteo in tho second and un- I successful campaign of Benjamin Har- rlson for tho prosldoncy; president of M the board of United States commis- !H Blonors tor tho Ixmlslana purchase ox 9H position nt St, Louis and since last fJ March chairman of tho newly croated 9 "InternoUonnl Joint Commission, Am- fM erienn Soction," especially charged & with Canadian boundary matters. ju9 An Ohioan by birth, an low an by W adoption and a Montnnnu long boforo m that torritory wna admitted to state- Vm hood, Mr. Cnrtor Jumped to tno front tuM almost from tho outset of his work, in fl Congress. Perhaps tho' most remark- j able of all of his forensic achieve L ments was his defeat of a big river H and harbor appropriation bill which jl ho regarded as n political "grab" H mennure during the McKinley admin- Sfl Istrntlon. H |
