Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-30
HENRY J. ALLEN
COMING TO SENATE:
Governor to Appoint Him on
Return to Kansas-Ac-
ceptance Certain.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

When the Senate convenes April Is
for the opening Of the special session
of Congress, Henry j. Allen, former
Governor of Kansas, will appear to
take the oath of Office as Senator. His
appointment to fill the vacancy in the
Senate created by the retirement Of
Vice President Curtis from that body is
to be made by Gov. Clyde M. Reed of
Kansas, who came here to consult Presi-
dent Hoover before he finally deter
mined to appoint Allen.
Following a long conference at the
White House, In which the President,
Gov. Reed. Secretary Good Of the War
Department and James Francis Burke,
committee, participated, Gov. Reed,
after he had returned to his hotel, an
nounced he had decided to appoint Gov.
Allen to the Senate. Gov. Allen Is at
his home in Wichita. The appointment
will be made by the governor as soon
as he returns to Kansas. There Is no
doubt, it is said, that Gov. Allen will
accept.
The appointment of Allen to the Sem
ate will give the administration another
strong friend in the Upper House, who
is expected to go along with the Presi-
dent in his plans for farm relief and
for inland waterway Improvement.
Expected to Run in 1880.
The Governor of Kansas, under the
State law. is empowered to I'LL vacancies
in the Senate until the next general
election is held. The next election
comes IN November, 1880. 1t is expected
that Gov. Allen will seek election to
the Senate at that time. AS the Curtis
term expires in 1882, it win be necessary
for Gov Allen, if he desires to continue
on in the Senate, to seek election not
only next year, but also two years later.
Kansas Is due for series OF by no
means tame elections, therefore, for Gov:
Allen has long been a storm center OF
politics in the Sun Flower State.
Gov. Reed, when he announced last
night he intended to appoint Allen to
the Senate, said that discussion OF the
appointment of Senator to succeed
Vice President Curtis had come up
during "a very pleasant visit with the
President, in the course of which We
discussed the inland waterways, farm
relief, and judicial appointments in the
Kansas judicial district"
when / stated that among those
being considered was former Gov
Henry j. Allen" he continued, the
President expressed himself as being
gratified. He stated, Of course. that
he could not even suggest the appoint
ment of any United States Senator.
HE assured me, however, that Gov.
Allen had long been his friend and he
l,oil L,ix~, i,1 1,fnI, ocfnoyrN ond that ~
the former governor should be ap-
pointed he would be a great help to
the administration in carrying out its
program and In working out the prob
lens vitality affecting Kansas and the
Middle West"
Curtis Is Silent.
Vice President Curtis is making no
on the choice of his successor.
He has kept hands of in this matter.
He and Gov. Allen have been on the
opposite sides of many political fences
for long time. It Is likely that Sem
ator Curtis could have prevented the
of Gov. Allen to the SEN
ate by the simple expedient of resign
ing his seat in the Senate early last
January before his friend, former Gov.
Paullen, went out of Office.
Paullen would have had the opportu-
nifty to make the appointment at that
time, and could have selected another
man for the place. But the Vice Presi-
dent, at the request of former President
Coolidge, remained on in the Senate as
leader, to help the admins
tration complete its program before it
went out of Office. Now, it appears, Gov.
Allen is to be appointed also to help an
administration carry out its program.
The appointment of new Senator
from Kansas has been a ticklish prob
lem for the present governor. He Is an
old friend of Gov. Aliens, and was his
secretary while Allen was the chief ex-
ecutive of the State.
Supported Hoover.
Gov. Allen was director of publicity
of the Republican national committee
during the Hoover campaign for Presi-
dent. He was supporter of the can
diiacy Of Mr.. Hoover for the presi-
dental nomination early in the pre-
convention campaign. In taking that
stand, he ran counter to the instruc-
tions of the Kansas delegation to the
Republican national convention to sup
port Vice President Curtis first. last
and all the time.
His friend, Clyde Reed, was nom
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