NEW U.S. JUDGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 9

NEW U.S. JUDGE.

DEBATE OVER APPOINTMENT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. The Senate confirmed the appointment of Senator H. L. Black to succeed Justice Van Devanter, who retired from the Supreme Court bench in June, by 63 votes to 16, following hours of bitter debate, in which Senator Black was attacked for_ alleged affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan and the anti-Al Smith campaign in the 1928 elections. It is intimated that his opponents, who included Senators Byrd, Tydings, Johnson and Lodge, are still not satisfied about Senator Black’s eligibility for Supreme Court membership, and the question may be taken to the Supreme Court itself. Senator Hugh La Fayette Black wai born in Alabama in 1886 and was educated at public schools at Ashland, Alabama, and at the University of Alabama, where he took his LL.B. in 1906. He began practice in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1907, eerved as a police Judge for lb months in 1910.-11, was prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County in 1915-17. and entered general practice in Birmingham in 1919. He continued there until 1927, when he was elected Senator for Alabama, and he is now serving his second term in the Senate for his State. Ho is a Democrat a Baptist, and a Mason, and in 1917 served as adjutant of the Nineteenth Artillery Brigade.