The Washington herald., 1914-06-09
FOR
CHIEF justice.
President Sends Maryland
Representative Name
to Senate.
JUDGE BARNARD RETRES
Bench and Bar Honor Aged Jurist
as He Announces His
Leave.
JUDGE BARNARD RETIRES

Now that President Wilson mas niled
the vacancy in the Chief Justiceship of
the District Supreme Court by nomi-
mating Representative J. Harry Cow
ington. Of the First Maryland district.
yesterday, the District bench and bar
are anxious to know who will be ap-
pointed to succeed Justice Job Barnard.
who retired yesterday. It is regarded
as practically certain that the Senate
will confirm Mr.. Covington.
The President is expecting daily a
further report from Attorney General
McReynolds containing the names OF
others from whom a successor to JUS
tice Barnard will probably be chosen.
The distinguished services of Repre-
sentative Covington in the House
caused President Wilson to hesitate for
some time before naming him for the
bench. Mr.. Covington was anxious
enough for the place. but was loath to
quit Congress SO long as his services
might be needed there
Operations of the District Supreme
Court have been clogged TO some extent
by the one vacancy. and. therefore. 1t
is thought the President will act
promptly upon receipt of recommenda-
tions from the Attorney General re-
garding the new vacancy.
Born I'm 1870.
Mr.. Covington was born in Easton,
Talbot County. Md, May 3. 1870 He
was graduated from the law depart
ment Of the University of Pennsylvania
in 1894, and at once began practicing
| his profession in his home city. He
was States attorney for Talbot Coun-
~ from 1903 until 1907. He was elected
to the Sixty-frst Congress and re-elect-
ed to the Sixty-third by a handsome
majority.
Glowing tributes from bench and bar
marked the close of the judicial career
OF Justice Job Barnard. senior judge of
the District Supreme Court Having
! reached the age limit of 20 the Justice
announced his retirement at general
term of court in the morning. Present
were Justices Thomas II. Anderson ana
Ashley NJ. Gould. besides many members
OF the bar Justice Anderson voiced the
regret of the judges at the severance or
the pleasant associations that existed for
many years Attorney Ross Perry spoke
for the bar.
handsome silver tea service OF nve
pieces was presented to the retiring jurist
Justice Anderson said in part:
High sense of Duty.
| Moved nv the same high sense of duty
that has marked his career at tne par
Iand upon the bench. Justice Barnard
while vet in the full possession OF MS
lsrIendid physical and mental powers.
voluntarily surrenders his high once ana
retires to private life
| In touching phrase and manly fasnion'
he has defined that duty and given 10 US
the reasons that impel his action.
| When a long and busy life has peer
crowned with success. and he who mas
lachieved this distinction. has so lived and
lIatored as TO deserve the praise and graft
tude of his fellows. the honor that is due
him should not be reserved as mere
tribute TO his memory, but should nno
lappropriate expression whiA the mar
himself can hear the plaudits OF his lei
lows and feel the warm impulse of theii
larpreciation and affection
When in the quietude Of your retire
ment YOU recall your work upon th'
bench, YOU will find your highest salts
faction, l am sure, in your love anc
reverence for the law itself. For law
is the expression of justice and the guar
dian of liberty"
Justice Barnard was appointed from
Indiana by President Mckinley in 1888
He served in Seventy-third Indiana In
lfantry throughout the Civil War and wa!
mustered out as a sergeant at the clos
lof the struggle. After the war ne en-
tered Michigan University and practicet
law at Crown Point. Ind, until he wa!
lappointed to the Federal bench.