Evening star., 1951-08-09
Calendar Call DELAYS
Mccarthy Plan 10 Air
Loyalty Probe Names

An agreement 10 lake up routine
bills in the Senate today may de-
lay the plans of Senator Nc
Carthy, Republican, of Wisconsin
to disclose names of 90 State De-
partment employees whose loyalty.
he says, has been questioned.
When the Senate takes up its
calendar of minor bills a Senator
may speak for only five minutes on
each bill.
L don't plan to delay the cal
endar call by making my speech IN
bits" said Senator Mccarthy, but
I hope tc get the floor. possibly
late in the day"
Meanwhile, Senator Gillette,
Democrat. of Iowa, Chairman of
the Privileges and Elections Sub
committee, said it may be "at
least six weeks" before his sub
committee acts on the resolution
seeking to pave the way for the
unseating of Senator Mccarthy.
introduced Dy Benton.
The resolution was introduced
IN the Senate two days ago by
Senator Benton, Democrat, of
Connecticut, and referred to the
Gillette subcommittee for study
Senator Benton based his resolu-
tion chiefly on the part Senator
Mccarthy played in the Butler
IydingS senatorial campaign in
Maryland last year. Senator Ben
ton suggested Senator Mccarthy
resign, or refrain from taking part
in Senate proceedings pending ac-
ton on the resolution. The Wis
consin Republican scoffed at those
suggestions and called Senator
Benton a mental midget"
Action on Senator Benton's move
for probe of Senator Mccarthy S
activities in the Maryland election
campaign will be delayed because
the subcommittee on privileges and
elections has other jobs pending.
Senator Gillette said. These in
clude hearings on the Ohio Sena-
torial election, which Mr.. Gillette
said he hoped to get started next
week end"
Senator McCarthy'S plan to
name State Department employees
who, he says, are involved in 10y
atty actions is part of his long
feud with the department which
he contends is shot through with
Communists and Communist
Sympathizers. He said he decided
to name names because depart
ment officials refused to make pub
lie those whose loyalty. he con-
tends, has been questioned.
Press Refused Proposal.
Yesterday Senator Mccarthy
offered to give his list of names
to reporters if they, in turn would
agree to publish the list in full.
Reporters for the wire services
told the Senator any statements
he offered would be handled on
the same basis as any other news,
but they would give him no ad-
vance commitments. Senator
Mccarthy then made it plain that !
he would not give out the names
at his office but would do so in
q Senate speech.
He said he recognized the dan
ger of costly libel suits if the
names were used without the
privilege of congressional i'm
munity. He added that he made
the offer to dispute silly asinine
criticism" that he would make ac-
cusations only under such i'm
munity.
Charges made against persons
IN the Senate or House, or in Of
fetal committee records, cannot /
be used as a basis for libel suits. /
Senator Mccarthy told reporters
the State Department employees on !
his list included now on duty.
2 under suspension. 2 resigned and
l who had been cleared by loyal
ty check.
Some are very high officials"
he said. He mentioned IAN Am
bassador at large, a foreign af-
fairs specialist" and other job
titles running down to typists and
Stenographers.