The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-18
JUDGE NOYES S3LMj
 TOWNSEND'S SUCCESSOR
Takes Lunch With President,
 Which is Taken as In dication.
HIS NEW LONDON CAREER
Judge Moves Talked of to Fill His Place in Common
 Pleas.
Oyster Bay, L. L, Sept. 1T.

Judge Walter c. Moves of New Lon don, judge of the common pleas bench in New London courts with Gen. Luke E. Wright retiring ambas- sador to Japan were guests at lunch this noon with President Roosevelt. Judge Moves has been strongly sup ported as the successor to the late Judge William K. Townsend as judge of the United States circuit court and this is considered a definite indication that he has been selected for the po- sition by the President.
 Judge Moves has been very heartily supported by Senators Brandegee and Bulkeley of Connecticut for the posi- tion, It is reported that Attorney Charles Waller of New London will be appointed by Governor Woodruff to succeed Judge Moves if he is elected.
 Connecticut people are deeply inter ested in the selection of Judge Town sends successor and New London is especially ardent for Judge Moves. He has been a resident of that city for considerable number of years and there is a strong local pride in his ju- dicial career and a feeling that if he is selected to fill the honorable posi- tion he is fully competent to meet all of the requirements It would be bad use of the English language to describe Judge Moves as a popular" man. He is rather retiring in his disposition and on that account has not as large an acquaintance as many men in public life. Those who know him, however, appreciate very highly his fitness for judicial preferment. Judge Moves comes from one of the most substantial families in Old Lyme. He took up the practice of law in this with the late Hon. Augustus Bran degee and Senator Frank B. Brande- gee, and is still in partnership with the latter. Association with the leading law firm of the city gave him q prestige but any honors that have been paid to him on that account have been fully justified by his own actions, At the age of 2S he was made judge of the court of common pleas to All the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John c, Crump, Long before that time he had given evil dence of wide intimacy with legal matters, and his opinion carries the weight of finality with many of his associates at the bar The judgeship supplied new opportunities for the exhibition of his ability to pass on matters in a dispassionate way, and ! his rulings soon attracted attention by their manifest fairness.
 In presiding Judge Moves furnishes protection for the witness against the efforts of attorneys whose zeal so,ne- times leads them to ask questions that ought not to be propounded
 Judge Moves has way that does not attract condolences. He looks as well as acts like a judge, but no one could be more courteous than he or more willing to oblige. He was born with just the right kind of a temper lament to discriminate between right and wrong Even as a schoolboy hls opinion was sought by the men of old Lyme, who gave great weight to his words.
 No man stands higher among the members of the New London county bar than he. What he says is re- garded as law and against his opinion there does not seem to be any use to make a contest.
 Judge Moves doesn't mix very much | lxy.ifl 4A q the Thames club, but spends the great CT part of his time at his office or at his home, or late he has taken up automobiling with considerable en- ijoyment and he drives a car with the same flrmness and cool-headedness
 that mark his conduct on the bench although the car sometimes plays him a trick and leaves him stranded be- side the road until repairs can be made. He isn't satisfied simply to op- crate the levers and make the car go, but has made study of the machin- cry and one is liable to find the judge underneath the machine adjusting some difficulty that has arisen,
 In his family relations the judge Is l daughter of Benjamin A. Armstrong, head of the Brainard & Armstrong Co., SIX manufacturers, of this city and sister of Mayor Benjamin l.. Armstrong Judge Moves has given considerable attention to corporation law and is con sidered an expert in that department His book, 'Intercorporate Relations Is authority on the matters with which il treats. On the subject of railroad leg islation his American Railroad Rates, has attracted wide attention and has ception of the subject. In the February humber of the Columbia Law Review ne
 had an article on Possible Federal
 Trust Legislation" which shows q breadth of thought and familiarity witt
 conditions that testify of his ability tC judge matters of a national character He is frequent contributor to that pc rlodical
 I All of the energy of his nature
 seems to be bound up in the law, He
 has never been sufficiently interested in politics to strive for office, and ht
 does not care for publicity in the or ates look upon him as student and cer- tainly the books and articles that he has written indicate that his study hal
 resulted in a familiarity with lega, | matters and has broadened his capacity for grasping important problems.
 Judge Moves always had a grea' love for his Old Lyme home. Although he has lived in New London for years he is still a resident and voter in tho
 town of his birth. and his name ap lpears on the New London tax list as d
 to any lack of appreciation of New l hut rather tn sentimental re.