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Carter, Thomas H.———Former United States Senator Thomas Henry Carter of seven. Montana An Ohioan died Sept. by birth, 17, aged an Iowan ﬁfty

country and Canada, and took a leading part in the abrogation of the ﬁshery

by adoption and a Montanan longbefore that territory was admitted to state hood, Mr. Carter had been the ﬁrst representative in Congress from Mon tana, commissioner of the general land oﬁ‘ice, chairman of the Republican na tional committee, president of the United States commissioners'for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and, since last March, chairman of the newly created “international joint commission American section," especially charged

articles in our treaties Britain.

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Harris, Edward. — Edward Harris, who died at Rochester Sept. 16, aged seventy-six, was the recognized leader of the bar of his section of New York State. His clients included the New York Cen tral Railroad, of which company his son, Albert H. Harris, is now general counsel

and vice-president. James of Hereford. —- Lord James of Hereford, who died in England, Aug. 8,

at the age of eighty-three, was called to

the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852, and as Henry James distinguished him Corbin, Charles L.—Charles Lyon self at the bar, being made a Q. C. in Corbin, of the ﬁrm of Collins & Corbin. 1869. He made his mark in the House of Jersey City, died Aug. 12, in his sixty of Commons, becoming Solicitor-Gen sixth year. Having been graduated eral and later Attorney-General. He from Hamilton College and Columbia refused the Lord Chancellorship because Law School, he was admitted to the bar he could not agree with Gladstone on of New York in 1869, and immediately his home rule policy. He was one of the afterward began the practice of law in leading counsel for the London Times Jersey City. In 1884, with Vice-Chan in the Parnell affair. He was raised to celor Stevens, he drew the Railroad Tax the peerage in 1895, and in 1896 was law. He prepared and published an appointed to the Judicial Committee of American edition of Benjamin on Sales. the Privy Council. He revised and published two editions .Madison, Edmond H. — Congressman of the Rules of all the New Jersey Courts. E. H. Madison of Kansas, a prominent He revised and consolidated the tax laws Insurgent of the House, died in Kansas of the state and reduced its railroad City, Sept. 18, aged forty-ﬁve. He en

with Canadian boundary matters.

legislation to order and simplicity. Frye, William P. —— United States Senator Villiam Pierce Frye died at Lewiston, Me., Aug. 8, aged eighty. He was not only the senior member in point of service of both Houses of Congress, but would have been made Speaker but for his transfer to the Senate. The code which now governs the deliberations of the Senate is largely his work, as chair man years ago of the Committee on

Rules.

He was particularly interested

tered politics by successfully running for county attorney, later becoming a Kansas district judge. JlIcCook, Col. John J.—Col. John James McCook, head of the old New York law firm of Alexander & Green, died Sept. 17. Col. McCook was the youngest of nine sons of Daniel McCook, who, with ﬁve sons of John McCook, distinguished themselves by brave ser vice in the Civil War. Col. McCook was offered the Secretaryships of War, Navy