SENATOR HAWLEY TO RETIRE ill health may end career of con statesman united states senator joseph R hawley who it is expected will resign his seat because of the persist ent weakness that has followed his attack of illness two months ago la is now in his seventy seventh year and has served twenty one years as the representative of connecticut in the senate mr hawley Is a native of orth carolina for fifty two years he has been a member of the Connect i cut bar and his political record ex tends deep down into ante bellum helium strata when he was a delegate to the az N N P WL EY free soil convention of 1852 fiig present term does not empire until 1905