Evening star., 1950-09-13
House-Senafe Group
Gets Subversive Bill;
Veto Believed Likely
BY the Assoeiofed Press

muniSt activities all along the
home front headed today for a.
Senate House conference as the
nrst step toward a probable veto
by President Truman.
It received an overwhelming TO
tot vote of approval in the Sen
ate late yesterday after day of
hectic and often confused maneu-
vering that eventually welded two
opposing measures into one.
Briefly the bill provides for:
y /. The internment of dangerous
Reds in time of war, invasion or
insurrection.
2. Registration of Communist
and Communist-front organiza-
tions.
8. Barring Reds from Govern
ment jobs and obtaining passports.
4. New legal curbs on sabotage
and espionage.
5. New weapons to be used to
exclude and deport aliens consid-
cred to be subversive.
6. Outlawing conspiracies to set
up q "totalitarian dictatorship" in
the United States.
Kilgore Offers Substitute.
Senator Kilgore. Democrat, of
West Virginia had introduced the
internment plan as a substitute
for the sweeping catch-all bill
sponsored by Chairman McCarran
Of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee. AS a substitute, it was de-
1eated so to %.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority
Leader Lucas grabbed the ball.
When the voting was finally over.
he had succeeded in mailing, al
somewhat modified version OF the
Kilgore plan onto the McCarran
bill.
It was done by voice vote after
the Senate had batted down, 45
to 20, Senator Lucas move to sub
stitute the plan for the Com
munist registration section, and
then rejected. 81 to S5, his first
attempt to write the plan into the
bill. This vote was later recon-
sidered and acceptance followed.
2 Other Major Changes.
There were only two other ma
jor changes in the McCarran bill.
One stripped from it a provision
to set up a semi-independent Office
Of passports and visas. This
amendment, by Senator Connally,
Democrat, of Texas, was adopted
80 to 80.
The other, an amendment by
Senator Ellender, Democrat, OF
Louisiana added provision max
ing it illegal to picket Federal
courts. 1t was adopted on a
voice vote.
A top administration lieutenant,
who asked that he not be identi-
fied by name, told reporters the
White House already has the
measure under study, but he did
not know when a decision would
be made.
He said. however, that the
President would make a FORTH
right stand one way or another.
MIR. Truman told his news con-
ference last week that he would
not sign the McCarran bill in
the form 1t was In at that time
He had asked Congress only
for new weapons to use against
saboteurs and spies. He said
he thought provisions of the Me-
Carran bill would imperil the
rights of loyal American citi-
zenS.
AS passed, the bill contains pro-
visions the President wants and |
some he doesn't want. Indica-
tions are that the House, which
last month passed its own Com
munist-registration bill by an
overwhelming vote, will accept
most of both
The fact that Senator Lucas
and other Administration Sena-
tors voted for the McCarran bill
created doubt as to what Mr..
Truman would do, particularly in
q Congressional election year
when many Democrats, Senator
Lucas included, are fighting hard
political campaigns.
Senator Mundt, Republican, Of
South Dakota, one of the authors
Of the Communist-registration
section of the McCarran bill, put
1t this way:
II still don't think the Presi-
dent is going to veto the bill. If
he was going to, I don't think
Lucas would have voted for it."
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
of MICHIGAN. another sponsor of !