JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.1 MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, CHIEF JUSTICE. GEORGE WOODWARD WICKERSHAM, ATTORNEY GENERAL. JAMES HALL MCKENNEY, CLERK. JOHN MONTGOMERY WRIGHT, MARSHAL. 1 For allotment of THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Associate Justices among the several circuits see page v, post. 2 THE CHIEF JUSTICE died July 4, 1910, at his home in Sorrento, Maine, during vacation. He was buried in Chicago, Illinois. The proceedings on his death will appear in Vol. 219, United States Reports. On December 12, 1910, President Taft appointed Edward Douglass White, Associate Justice of this court, Chief Justice of the United States, to succeed MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER. He was confirmed by the Senate on the same day and on December 19 took the oath as Chief Justice. 'MR. ASSOCIATE Justice Harlan presided from the opening of October Term, 1910, until December 19, 1910. * Appointed and confirmed Chief Justice of the United States December 12, 1910, and took the oath as such December 19, 1910. On December 12, 1910, President Taft appointed Mr. Joseph Rucker Lamar, of Georgia, Associate Justice to succeed MR. JUSTICE WHITE as such. He (NOTES CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE.) was confirmed by the Senate on December 15, 1910, and qualified and took his seat upon the bench on January 3, 1911. 'MR. JUSTICE MOODY was absent from the court on account of illness during the whole of October Term, 1909, and did not participate in any of the decisions reported in this volume. On June 23, 1910, Congress passed the following act (chap. 377), entitled, "An Act to permit William H. Moody, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to retire. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes be and they are hereby, extended and made applicable to WILLIAM H. MOODY, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in consequence of his physical inability, notwithstanding he has not served the full term of ten years or attained the age of seventy years as required by the aforesaid section: Provided, that the said WILLIAM H. MOODY shall resign the said office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States within five months after the passage of this act. Approved June 23, 1910." MR. JUSTICE MOODY's illness continued and he did not take his seat upon the bench during October Term, 1910, or participate in any of the decisions of the court during such term. He retired pursuant to the provisions of said act of Congress on November 20, 1910. See Proceedings, p. xvii, post. On December 12 President Taft appointed Willis Van DeVanter, of Wyoming, Circuit Judge of the United States for the Second Circuit, to succeed MR. JUSTICE MOODY. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 15, 1910, and qualified and took his seat upon the bench on January 3, 1911. 'MR. JUSTICE HUGHES of New York, and Governor of that State, was appointed by President Taft on April 25, 1910, to succeed MR. JUSTICE BREWER, deceased. See 217 U. S. iii. He was confirmed by the Senate on May 2, 1910, and qualified`and took his seat upon the bench on October 10, 1910. He did not take part in any of the decisions reported in this volume which were argued or submitted prior to that date. 'MR. SOLICITOR GENERAL BOWERS died during vacation of the court, at Boston, Massachusetts, on September 9, 1910. On December 12 President Taft appointed Mr. Frederick William Lehmann of Missouri, Solicitor General to succeed Mr. Bowers. His commission was filed with the court December 19, 1910. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. ALLOTMENT OF JUSTICES, JANUARY 10, 1910.1 ORDER: There having been an Associate Justice of this court appointed since the commencement of this term, It is ordered that the following allotment be made of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of this court among the circuits, agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided, and that such allotment be entered of record, viz.: For the First Circuit, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice. For the Second Circuit, Horace H. Lurton, Associate Justice. For the Third Circuit, William H. Moody, Associate Justice. For the Fourth Circuit, Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice. For the Fifth Circuit, Edward D. White, Associate Justice. For the Sixth Circuit, John M. Harlan, Associate Justice. For the Seventh Circuit, William R. Day, Associate Justice. For the Eighth Circuit, David J. Brewer, Associate Justice. For the Ninth Circuit, Joseph McKenna, Associate Justice. 1For the last preceding allotment see 214 U. S. iv. A new allotment, made January 9, 1911, will appear in Volume 219 U. S. |