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LEE MANTLE hearty sympathy with the administration in its policy toward Spain, was a staunch supporter of the administration, and voted at every opportunity for measures looking to Cuban belligerency and Cuban independence. His speech, made in the Senate on April 4, 1898, favoring the independence of Cuba, was remarkable for its force and eloquence. He is in every sense a self-made man, and one whom his State delights to honor. He is unmarried, and lives at Butte City with his aged mother, whom he has provided with a home ever since he was fourteen years of age.