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Show I I - JUSTICE MOODY TO RETIRE 1 Because of his continued Illness, Associate yJX Justice William H. Moody of tho United States l sibS supdomo court must roslgn. Undor tho law a ififfi? -iy momber of tho court must servo ten years boforo ! wWk 1,0 can rotlro on Pay- To old Justlco Moody, Sen- j with ntor odgo Introduced In tho senate a bill giving ) wtftS "mi n,s ,my ,n fulure because It was illnoss nnd nfpI wl 1101 a doBlro to enter other business that causod j llls 'na,)'"ty t0 B'VG nls attention to court duties, i yw&a." -N, Justlco Moody was attornoy geuoral whon I ix Presldont Iloosovelt appointed him to tho bonch yj In 190G. Ho has boon ill much of tho tlmo slnco yf thon, but It was not until about ono year ago Ws!m5r4,f srI t,m n's a'lment too, Bucn a sorlouB turn that ho I yMwf vp was not nb' to 8'vo n's nttnHon to his duties. nffl ViSm. By Justlco Moody Is a natlvo of Massachusetts j and a graduate of Harvard. 'He was admitted to . the practiso of law In 1878, and served as solicitor for Haverhill and district nttomoy for tho oastcrn district of Massachusetts. He was oloctod to tho .Fifty-fourth congress from tho Sixth district to fill a vacancy, and was also a member of tho Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and FIfty-soventh congresses. Ho wo ecretary of tho navy for two years boforo ho was attornoy goneral. |
