Evening star., 1942-05-20

this conspiracy against the Senator
from Massachusetts,.
Would Summon Parties.
Il think the Senate should call
10 the bar OF the Senate, in view of
the report which has been made.
the old hussy who runs the New
York Post. We should call to the
bar Walter Winchell, the radio
commentator who disgraces the uni
form of the Navy of the United
States by appearing in his Navy
unit> m to try to smear members
of Congress. In radio address he
undertook to smear not only the
Senator from Massachusetts,, but
three other members of the Senate
whose names happen to begin with
w"
Senator Clark said that the report
made by Senator Barkley showed
there had been "subornation of
perjury, to which the trial judge
himself, In view of the statement
from the trial judge quoted in the
New York paper, must have been a
party" HE was referring to the
trial Of Gustave H. Beekman, pro-
prietor of the house in Brooklyn
I'm addition" continued Senator
Clark, II think that the great re-
former, Morris Ernst, who sat with
the trial judge in the trial Of the
(Beekman) case, and who afterward
brought these charges to Washing
ton, as understand, in an effort to
smear the Senator from Massachu-
sets, should be brought to the bar
OF the Senate. =
IF there is a conspiracy. as has
appeared from time to time, to
smear members of the Senate and
House who do not happen to agree
with certain newspapers on public
questions, the people should know
It," Senator Clark continued.
Correspondents Dinner" Hit.
Senator Clark referred to a din
ner party in Washington, promoted
by the Communist front and the
New Republic Magazine" called
The Overseas Correspondents
Dinner He said 1t was a matter
of common notoriety that the state
ment was made at that dinner that
men who opposed the entry of the
United States into the war before
Pearl Harbor must be destroyed" d"
II have it on good authority" he
said, that they should be hooked
for subversive activities, If possible;
that they should. be fought on some
income tax frame up, and that II
that was not possible, they should
be hooked on a violation of the
Mann Act, or anything else any
body could think Of"
Senator Barkley said he should
not like to give categorical answer
Immediately to the proposal for
senatorial investigation. He said he
thought the matter should be given
consideration before any action was
taken. Senator Clark agreed to that
suggestion, and did not press for a
resolution at this time.
Senator Barkley took up the state
ment OF Senator Clark about Nor
ris Ernst. He said he had been told
that the report Mr.. Ernst sat on the
bench with the trial judge was in
correct, but that Mr.. Ernst had
been present at the trial as an at
torney for the New York Post.
Senator Barley earlier denounced
the story about Senator Walsh as
an absolute fabrication.
The Kentucky Senator gave to the
Senate reports of F. B. I. agents
who looked into the charges, entirely
generating Senator Walsh and
proving that another man, said to
resemble Senator Walsh, had been
the visitor at the Brooklyn house.
The "other man." who was said to
be from New England, had ad-
mitted his presence in the house,
Senator Barley said.
Senator Barley described to the
Senate the various steps which had
led to the investigation by the JUS
tice Department of the story-mak-
ing charges against Senator Walsh.
The matter, he said, had first been