Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
CURTIS EXPECTED
TO PLAY BIG ROLE
Vast Experience in Congress
to Be Valuable Aid to
Hoover Administration.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Vice President Curtis is likely to have
larger measure of participation in the
affairs of government during the Hoover
administration than has any other man
who has held the vice presidency in
more than generation.
While the sole duty prescribed for the
Vice President is that of presiding
officer over the Senate. President
Hoover, even before the election. invited
Mr.. Curtis to sit in at cabinet sessions
and the invitation was accepted prompt-
ly So 1t will be that the Vice President
will be at the council table tomorrow at
the first session of the Hoover cabinet
The practice of having the Vice
President attend cabinet meetings was
initiated by the late President Harding,
when Calvin Coolidge held that Office.
AS valuable as his advice may have
been, Mr.. Coolidge was unable to bring
to the deliberations of Mr.. HardingS
advisers the vast fund of knowledge
concerning the legislative branch of
government which Vice President Curtis
possesses.
Served More Than 80 Years.
With but a single break, the former
Senator has served in the two houses
of Congress for more than 80 years and
has been the Republican leader in the
Senate since the death of Henry Cabot
Lodge more than years ago. Prior
to that he had been the assistant leader
for a number of years
Few men on Capitol Hill are as we'll
posted on Senate rules and procedure
as is Mr.. Curtis and few of them have
as wide a circle of intimates among
the members of Congress irrespective of
party lines.
Coming to the cabinet sessions thus
equipped, the Vice President will be
able to give valuable advice on subjects
which must be placed before Congress
and he will be In position to WELD
considerable influence at the Capitol in
the shaping of administration measures
anC In the handling of them on the
floor of the Senate.
Those conyersant with the situation
would be surprised if his advice is not
sought on legislative affairs alike by
President Hoover and the leaders aS
well as the rank and file in the Senate.
DdWco lUUk manu- IImcSs
Although he announced at the out
set that he would not attend cabinet
sessions even if invited, former Vice
President Dawes did take a hand now
and then in the framing and plotting
of legislation in the Senate. 1t is an
open secret that his activities on behalf
of the McNary- Haugen bill created
breach between himself and President
Coolidge
Vice President Curtis had an engage
ment today with President Hoover at
which it was understood that the SUBJ
ject of his participation in administra-
ton affairs would be discussed. The
President and the Vice President al
ready have had several conferences since
their Inauguration for discussions of the
extra session of the Seventy-flrst Con-
gress and other matters.
Senator Moses of New Hampshire,
president pro tempore of the Senate.
who also has wide influence in the con-
duct of legislative affairs, was another
on the Presidents engagement list for
his third day in the White House.
Other Senators who had White House
engagements included Frazier and Nye
of North Dakota. one-time proponent of
the McNary-H -Haugen bill. but who sup
ported Mr.. Hoover for President; Bing-
ham of Connecticut, and Vandenberg of
Michigan,