1893, in 1899, and again in 1905, and has proved to be one of the ablest representatives of his party in the national legislature.
At the dedication of the Chicamauga and Chattanooga National Park, Senator Bate was selected by the secretary of war to speak for the Confederates. His address on this occasion was one of great strength and calmness, the keynote of which was patriotic devotion. He pointed out that the "record of the heroic past, though written in the blood of civil war, was essentially American in all the glorious attributes of American citizenship." In the senate he has been fearless and conscientious in his devotion to high civic ideals, and certain of his speeches are repositories of learning and examples of forensic strength. His published addresses and speeches deal with the tariff, annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, the financial question, Porto Rico and the Philippines, the independence of Cuba, and the war revenue bill, beside several memorial addresses.
Senator Bate died at Washington, District of Columbia, March 9, 1905.
