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Show Ex-Senator Stewart EX-SENATOR Wm. M. Stewart, o Nevada, died a week ago in Washington, aged 82. He was an eminent lawyer, he served Nevada many years in the senate of the United States; he was a controlling factor on the west coast for more than forty years. He was a master spirit on the Comstoclc when the problems to be solved there were most difficult, a master spirit both as a lawyer and in settling the compllcatied features a of mining which were then in. a state of half chaos, for at that time there was no well defined way to locate mines and to establish what a location lo-cation covered. In the senate he drafted the 15th amendment to the Constitution; he framed the mining law which first fixed the method of locating mines and defining what the location carried; for years he was one of the ablest ad-'vocates ad-'vocates of silver; so able that his arguments were never answered. He was a massive and imposing man physically; physi-cally; in private life he was one of the most kindly, kind-ly, cord'al and generous of men. He gained half a dozen fortunes; his practice alone must have brought him $100,000 per year for the first five years on the Comstoclc, but we suspect he died poor He never betrayed a friend nor a cause; his character was above reproach. He was an indefatigable worker; his executive execu-tive abilities were of the highest, his abilities wert first class in judging any other man's cause except his own. He was an honor to the .,, .., state that honored him over and over with the senatorship. He whs an honor to earnest manhood man-hood everywhere. |