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Show L0::S UFE AT3) DBTKGUISHED SERVICES . OF SETaTO.1 FRYE; DEIOCRATIC SUCCEOR - a He never let politic Interfere wtth bla unwavering consideration for tba feellnga of hie eolleaguea. Democratic Sueceeeor. By reason of the recant Democratic victory In Maine and the reeultant election elec-tion of a Democratic governor and legle-lature. legle-lature. Senator FYye will be succeeded by a member of that party. Tha chance will reduce the Republican membership of the eenata ta forty-nine and Inereaee the Democratic membership to forty-one. Senator Frva'e term would have ended March 4. 111. There are eald to be half e dnaen prominent Democrats In the etate who will aspire to the short term appointment. ap-pointment. While there haa been dla-cuselon dla-cuselon already of the probability of a aurceaaor. Senator Johneon, the Demo, cretlc aenator from Maine, declined to venture an opinion aa to who his colleague col-league waa- likely to be. The choke at 'preeent will real with Oovemor Plale-teed. Plale-teed. who will make an appointment. Th aceeealon of another Democrat to the senate will make the Maine congreeelon-al congreeelon-al delegation, for year ecUdly Republican, Republi-can, four Democrata and two ' Repuhlt. cena. Tha Democrata already have half the Maine membership In the houee. Senator rrye waa one of tha laet two of that remarkable ooterie of Maine atateemen. which began with Hannibal Hamlin, ended with hlmaalf and Senator Hale, who retired at the eloee of the last session of congreeo, and Included Jamee O. Blaine. William Pitt Feseenden. Thomas Thom-as B. Reed and Nelson Dln(iey. Both he and Hale begen service In the eenate I In 141. and served elde by aide for thirty years, a much longer time then any other two men eat together In th eenate. een-ate. Frye began hia aervlce aa the successor succes-sor of Blaine, and Hale aa the auccesaor .af Haaalla. Both.- entered lhe .senate after oonapleuoua service In the houee and. both began their congressional careers ca-reers in the latter body almoat elmul-taneouely. elmul-taneouely. Th parallel would nave been - complete com-plete If Mr. Hale had not eklpped term between the termlnetlon of ble house and the beginning of hia aenaie aervloo. and If he hed not practice lly voluntarily eevered hie connection -with the senate by announcing long la advance ad-vance that he would not be a candidate for re-election after tha conclusion of hia aeoatorlal term ended la March, 111. Forty Taars' Bervtc. Mr. Free waa tn eongree feet veers, gyving him the longeet continue ua eon-areealonal eon-areealonal record, with the two exceo-tione exceo-tione of Juatln 8. Morrill of Vermont and William B. Allleon of Iowa. For fifteen veers Mr. Free bed been president presi-dent pro tempore of the eenata. and bv virtue of the feet that he held thie of-Sea of-Sea when tha law Vloe President Ha- " , ' , . .-' - - LaranSTON. Ma.. Aug. -The etate of Maine loet It senior Unite Statea aenator aena-tor and an almoat lifelong faithful eervant whan William Pierce Frye idled lata yesterday yes-terday at tha bora af hia daughter. Mra. Helen Whit, here. At nls bedside wer Mra. Whtta and hi other daughter. Mra. Alice srrlgge. waa ale reeldee her. Although Al-though ke had bean 111 a a long time, death came suddenly. rorcee) by tha condition of Ma health to vesica hi position aa president pro tempore at th eenate at the beginning of tba present special sevslon of ooncreaa. although ha retained his membership to th eenate. Senator Try anon afterward made ble laet Journey to the city which always had been Ma home. For several week bla condition waa aot eonaldered Beceawarlly daagereue. Up to Mat week be rested in comparative comfort, epend-Ing epend-Ing miieb of hia tlm tn reading; or In having aom member of hia family read to him: ' Last week tha senator's Illness took a ssrtous torn, but again he rallied, and thle week hia phyalcen expreaaed the bova that be might recover. Ae lata as 1 11 yeat enter he appeared- to be In comfortable condition. Shortly afterward after-ward tt waa eeea that be wa sinking . Tapldly and at l:M n'elea-k he died. A general breakdown, due to age and hi extremely arduous career, la ascribed by-physician ee- the caueo ' of death. Loot ta Oongraa. WASHINGTON. Aug. . Nawa of ion. - a tor Frya'k deata' reached the eenate In-formally In-formally late yeeteraay while Admiral Toga, to Japanese naval hero, was. being given aa ovatloa during a tan minutes' receaa. Aa tha senate waa (till In th legislative session of Monday, by reaaoa 'of continue ace aader the agreement to vote on the s ret a hood hill on the legle-lativ legle-lativ day of august T, It waa decided thet no announcement a hoe id be made then of the loan of the senate's oldest memberoideet both In years and aervlce. There wee a unanlmoue desire that when adjournment waa taken out of respect re-spect to ale memory that It he for the entire day. Thla formality will be complied com-plied with Immediately after the aenate convenes todey. 'enator Frye waa famed for hia fair-peee fair-peee to ell members, whether aa the pre-e'lttne pre-e'lttne otfirer or In dehete on the floor. bart died, he aaeumed all the functions of vice oreeident ef the felted Statee during the latter pert of President Me-Klnlev's Me-Klnlev's administration. Frevloae so the aeettmptton of th diitle of proetdlng ofneer. Mr. Frve wea one of th meat active debaters in tba aenete. Coming to congress before th eloee of fhe reconstruction period following the civil wer. end being a pronouneed partisan, parti-san, he Immediately become an active participant In the discussions of that ihrtlttnc period. - Me eoon took front rank ee a epeaaer and bv the time be hed served ten veers hed rises to a position of such eminence that but for hia election elec-tion to -the aenete he undoubtedly would have been elected epeaker ef the houee. Both ea senator and aa repreeentatlve Mr. rrye gave moot of hia time to practical prac-tical Ouestlons. Me waa for many yeare Chairman of th senate committee on commerce end la that capacity became an pitnert on all ouestlons dealing with ahl ooln. navigation. rlvr and harbor Imornvemente. lighthouse, revenue cutter cut-ter and bridge leglalatlon. Me waa one of the principal promoters of the move-'merit move-'merit - In favor of aubetdlee for the promotion pro-motion of American ahlonlng.'' So- hmh ly wee ate ludament In moat of these matsera reaarde. that no ordinary- bill reoorted frxim the coiameroe oommlttee wee -ever-aueetlened, . Oa Leading Oommlttee. Mr. Pry -wss lao a member of Ion etendtng of ehe committee on foreign relatione. re-latione. In enme reenerta thla 1 regarded regard-ed ae the most deslrsbls of all commit-teee. commit-teee. yet no desirous wa he to serve the commercial world that when Senator Sherman retired from the rhalrmanshle of the foreign affaire committee, the Maine aenator voluntarily surrendered the vacated niece to remain at the head of th commerce eemmltteoe Of International eueotlon. aenator Pry save moat attention le maitera In-volvlnar In-volvlnar Oriental relation. No man la eubltc life had a better command of the situation Is the Bemoan Islands while they Were a hone ef International contention. con-tention. He also wss familiar wtth eon-dltloaa eon-dltloaa ta Hawaii before the annexation of tha Islands, and wa an effeotlve advocate ad-vocate of American control there. ' He wa one of President MrKinlev'e ardent eueportera In thu oanieh wsr and . whan that conflict was brought to a close he waa selected aa one of the American commissioners to negotiate a peace treaty which h afterward sta-aed la Parle. Before' entering congress Mr. Prre had attained dietlnctlon ae a lawyer In his Dative city of Lewleton. Tha Bnaneuvl outlook waa meat flattering, hut he al-wav al-wav declared that -ernlle he probable would hav been abl to amaa a large fortune, ha had no ragrete ever hi oorae la foregoing thte enoortunlty. ' bens tor Cullom now becomes the ranking rank-ing senator la aotat of lone eat service. Pry' Career. Senator rrye Waa almoet (1 year eld. having been bora la Lee-ieton. Me.. September Sep-tember t, ltto. eon of Colonel John M. end Alice (Oavwi rrye. He graduated from Bowdnla' college In Its and receive the degree ef Maater of Arte from tha Sams Institution three year later. - Senator rrye studied and practiced law. waa a member of the Maine lagteletore la lMl-s and 1T, waa mayor of Lewleton la lee and 1UT. and nerved three year aa eteemey general gen-eral of Maine: waa a member of the Re- fuMlcen' national executive oommlttee la 71. and re-elected tn 117 and into. He waa a preeldentlel elector In IMS and a delegate to the Ke publican national renventlnne of U7I, 17 snd HI, being elected c batman of the Republican state committee of Maine to succeed James O Belne, resigning In November. Having been sleeted a repreeentatlve In the forty-second congress, he began hie long congreeelonal career, serving aa repreeentatlve rep-reeentatlve In the succeeding congressee until hia essctlea te th aeaet la March. aenator rrye received the degree of LU D. from Bate college and from Bow-doln Bow-doln and also served on the Board of truateea of the letter Inetltutlon. He married Caroline Spew, who died December Decem-ber II. IhM. . . Oevemor will Apyotet. AUGUST A. Me.. Aug. .-Oovrnor Pleleted. e uemocrat. will appoint a auc-eaeeor auc-eaeeor to the law aenator William P rrye wtthla a abort time, te eerve until the leg'.s ature meet In January, ltlt. Th appointment must he oon firmed by the executive council of seven. Ths death of Senator Prye. while not entirely unexpected, caught the men who here been paeelve candldatae when they were the leaet prepared, with the exception ex-ception of James C. Hamlin of Portland, a former candidate for oongreea. Mr. Hamlin about els week a ago Issued let-fere let-fere that he would be a candidate for the "ret raraive an hee went before the nubile nub-ile eenetaatly sine then. Hale Overwhelm.. . El.lWORTH. Me ..- Aug. tWTh eg. P resales of former I nltad State Senator gugeae Hale on learning ef the death of hie colleague of many years follows: I am overwhelmed by the terrible aew of the death of my colleague. Senator Sen-ator rrye. While I knew thathe wea a very 111 man. I hoped and believed that the peace and reel of hie summer life In Maine erould enable him again to return, re-turn, to the eenata an resume hia du-tlee du-tlee there. He end I here been very near and dear frtende for more thaa forty yeare We have disagreed en e area; many things as le puwlc policy, but there has never been snvthln but alfertlon and friendship between oa and I have no heart -ee eey enyrhlng more. Later I will eoeaa swore fully ef the character and Illustrious eervlcee ef the distinguished senator, ho ha gee forever." . |