The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-05
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q. O. P. Leader, With Long,
worth and Coolidge, Will Hold
Down Government Corners
By WILLIAM HARD.

Down Government Corners
BY WILLIAM HARD.
Senator Curtis of Kansas is the
central point of observation to-
day in the Senate.
Even as Calvin Coolidge stands
for the White House and even
as Nicholas Longworth stands for
the House of Representatives, so
equally Enthusiastically Senator
Curtis stands for the Senate.
All is as it was, and as it is,
and as it will be.
President Coolidge is all for
running along with the least pos
sible impertinence and interfer-
ence from the Legislative branch.
He likes people in his cabinet who
will not let themselves be put
upon by the legislative branch.
That is what every good and lofty
President should be like and has
been like.
Both Round EN- Up.
Nicholas Longworth is for having
q perfectly organized and perfectly
oiled House Of Representatives ma
chine which will produce legisla-
ton or quench legislation rapidly,
and as wished by him and by the
other leaders of the House. That
fl what every great leader of the
House always has been and always
WIN be.
Senator Curtis, now to be leader
OF the Republican dominant side Of
the Senate, is an accommodating
and giving and taking person, with
out extremes, without fanaticisms,
leaning toward the right, leaning
toward the left, understanding the
fanaticisms of other people, trying
to reach adjustments between ali
sorts of independent rowing, raving
mavericks "a perfect traditional
Senatorial character.
Senator Curtis has been Repub-
Hcan whip" of the Senate. Under.
meath the leadership of Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts,, Senator
Curtis, as whip" has been obliged
to round up all the wild steers and
off-oxen of the Republican side of
the Senate IN support Of supposedIy
Republican measures.
Shines as Diplomat.
1t is not recorded that he ever
outwardly has much lost his temper.
If he were in the House Of Repre-
sentatives and If he were chairman
of the Rules Committee of the
House of Representatives, like Ber-
trand II. Smell, he could bring in a
rule" to make his fellow Repub.
licans be good.
As a leader of the Senate, he
cannot bring in any rule which
would have the slightest influence
upon anybody on the Republican
side of the central Senate aisle.
Perhaps all our diplomats abroad
should be chosen from among former
leaders of the Senate. They know
how to get people to do what you
want them to do without having
any way of controlling them.
Senator Curtis is a veteran Of
that school of experience. He looks
bit like central Asiatic Monaghan
potentate.
He looks like a mild enc but he
undoubtedly looks like one both in
the matter of his mustache, which
is straggly and dropping, and in
the matter of his eyes, which are
dark and Oriental.
RumOrs of Early Poker.
In his youth, as this reporter is
Informed, he used to be proficient
in the old by-gone game Of poker.
This reporter does not know the
truth or untruth of that report.
He is bound to say. in any case,
that Senator Curtis has the poise of
somebody who once long ago may
sometime or other have played q
game of poker.
He Is calm. He is unruffled, It
Is difficult to make out whether he
holds conservative and reactionarv
King or a progressive and radical
Knave.
He will give same showing to the
Knave, II he has to. He will go
through with the King, If he can.
He is preferential conservative.
He is going to try to weld the
Republican majority into some sort
or approximate harmony.
Nobody could weld 1t into a
machine. Curtis has too much
sense to try to do anything of that
sort.
He nevertheless will try to weld
1t into some sort of harmony.
He is going to try to do it in a
Enthusiastically Senatorial way.
Conferences. His Policy.
He cannot do it by having any
sort Of Rules Committee" He
is going to try to do it by having
conferences.
He Is on good terms, personally.
with Ladd Of North Dakota, a La
Toilette radical.
He is on good terms with Wads.
worth Of New York, William Pitt
and Horace Walpole conscientious
courageous unintimidated admirable
eighteenth century constitutional
Tory.
He knows 'em all and likes 'en,
ali, and they all like him.
If some progressive has an
innocent bill which he would like
TO see put through; Mr.. Curtis
calls him on the phone in the
Senate Office Building and tells
him when his chance has come.
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