SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1954
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PAGE THREE
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Sen. McCarthy Meets f
By LEE MARKS
TOMORROW, the United States
Senate convenes in special ses-
sion to act on recommendations
submitted by the Select Commit-
tee To Study Censure Charges.
Senate Resolution 301, to censure
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-
Wis.), was submitted by Senator
Ralph E. Flanders (R.-Vt.) on
July 30 climaxing a stormy career
in which the junior senator from
Wisconsin made newspaper head-
lines with charges, counter charg-
es, exposes and sensationalized
hearings.
Serving on the committee with
Senator Arthur Watkins, (R-Utah),
chairman, were John C. Stennis
(D-Miss.), Frank Carlson (R-Kan.),
Francis Case (R-S.Dak.), Sam J.
Ervin, Jr. (D-N. Car.) and Vice-
Chairman Edwin C. Johnson (D.-
Col.).
They were authorized by the
Senate to investigate and hold
hearings on more than 30 charg-
es of various forms of misconduct
submitted by Senator Flanders,
Senator Wayne Morse (Ind.-
Ore.) and Senator William Full-
bright (D.-Ark.).
To a certain extent, the Watkins
Committee was appointed by Sen-
ator Richard Nixon for the anony-
mity of its members. Although ex-
perienced in judicial proceedings,
none of the six Senators were na-
tionally prominent or on record as
being rabidly opposed to or in sym-
pathy with McCarthy.
Aug. 24, after preliminary hear-
ings, Senator McCarthy was in-
formed that the charges had been
reduced to 13, divided into five
categories.
As noted in the official commit-
tee report these categories and
their subdivisions were:
1) Incidents of contempt of the
Senate or a Senatorial Commit-
tee. Repeated refusals to appear
before Senate committees, fail-
ing to supply information to the
Senate Sub-Committee on privi-
leges and elections, denouncing
the Sub-Committee, showing gen-
eral contempt for the Senate and
calling Senator Robert Hendrick-
son (R-N.J.) a "living miracle
without brains or guts," were
included in this charge.
2) Incidents of encouragement of
is Peers
United States employes to violate
the law and their oaths of office.
3) Incidents involving receipt or
use of confidential or classified
document or other information
from executive files.
4) Incidents involving abuses of
colleagues in the Senate.
5) Incident relating to Ralph W.
Zwicker, United States Army Gen-
eral.
Final conclusions of the com-
mittee as submitted to the sec-
ond session of the 83rd Congress
called for a censure of Senator
McCarthy.
Senator Watkins and his col-
leagues found Senator McCarthy
"contemptuous, contumacious and
denunciatory without reason or jus-
tification" in his actions toward
Senator Hendrickson and his sub-
committee.
They found his conduct "uncon-
donable and improper,"
And for his actions toward Gen-
eral Zwicker, the committee rec-
ommended censure claiming that
McCarthy was "reprehensible."
At the outset of their hearings,
the Watkins Committee said, "This
sub-committee has but one object
JOSEPH WELCH AND RAY JENKINS
.this is the army, tomorrow the Senate
and that is to reach an impartial Carthy on four, condoning his ac-
and proper conclusion based upon tions towards Senator Flanders
facts." only because Senator Flanders had
At the conclusion, they recom- precipitated Senator McCarthy's
mended censure on two of the five statements with inflamatory re-
charges and severely criticized Mc- marks of his own.
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