The Key West citizen., 1954-11-13
COP Leaders Plan Efforts To Soften Censrre
Resolution; Mccarthy Frowns On Compromise
BY JACK BELL

S~so~S A~sN AVA ~ASAeo ~ @NA$~" -
censure resolution against Sen.
Mccarthy (R-Wisj.
Monday was the day specified
by al influential COP senator who,
sskins to remain anonymous, said
IN an interview that unless Nc
Carthy and his friends can agree
.hy then On compromise resolu-
lion "it won't be much use to try
iny further
So far, this senator added, Nc
rarthy himself has not agreed to
ccept even the criticism involved
proposed watered-down alter.
alive TO the direct censure rec
cmmendation now before the Sem
tie.
The Senate itself was in recess
over the weekend after a session
esterday which saw Mccarthy as
liled as a spreader Of "slush and
line" and defended as 1.-THE
rongest voice now speaking out
II America against communism.
During the debate Sen. Knowland
4. California, the Republican floor
ieader, seemed to be laying the
,oundwork for a possible Senate
, .rdict differing from the censure
solution unanimously proposed
~ the special committee headed
~ Sen. Watkins (R-Utah). Know
nd said that while he had i'm
icit faith In the six-man biparti-
n committee, that did not mean
9 committees recommendation
J I'd to be accepted without change.
The COP senator interviewed to-
{ y said that one suggested COM
omise, so far spurned by Nc
lrthy, might declare that while
cCarthy's actions had been "in-
mperate and indiscreet" on some
casions, he had helped In show
Z penetration Of key govern
ent agencies" by Communists.
This version OF the proposed
. mpromise would strike out all
/ ference TO censure or condemna-
OF Mccarthy himself, q move
/ backeBs are not sure could COM
and the necessary majority vote.
However, Sen. Aiken (R-Vt). said
an interview he believes "some
nators might be willing to cen
re or condemn acts who are un-
ling to vote against Sen. Nc
: rthy personally"
The Watkins committee has rec.
amended that Mccarthy be CON
nined" for his alleged "contemp-
I rus" treatment Of an elections
ocommittee which investigated
/ finances in 1852. The group
ked that he be censured also for
epeated abuse" Of Brig. Gen.
lph w. Zwicker, a witness be-
e McCarthy's Investigations sub
mmittee earlier this year.
Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill), q backstage
der of compromise moves, de-
ned comment. But II was learn
he had urged McCarthy's
ends TO temper their language
discussing the censure issue in
hope that chances for q COM
omise would not 60 up In the
&c Of debate.
Mccarthy himself flew to Wis
,sin to accept an award from the
Jung Republican Women Of that
te today.
Sen. Stennis (D-Miss). q Watkins
nmittee member who accused
:Carthy yesterday Of putting "an-
Ter spot on the floor Of the Sem
,, another splash and splatter"
! attacking he group, said he
iuld consider any bona fide
,tement" Mccarthy might offer
way of retraction.
Stennis yesterday challenged Nc
rthy's assertion that members
the Watkins Committee were the
inviting handmaidens" of the
mmunist party. He told the Sen
/, that MeCarthy's statement was
continuation Of the slush and
, me which has been poured on
Ter committees which were
arged with the duty of trying to
* into his conduct"
While Sen. Mccarthy has done
ne very good and very effective
Irk" against Communism, STEM
said, this 'is not a license to
stroy other processes of the Sem
or destroy its members.
If we approve. then something
and fine viii have gone from
chamber and something of a
ong character - something rep
,enting q wrong course, wrong
,proach - win have entered and
il have been accepted as a prop
standard of conduct"
3ut Sen. Goldwater (R-AriTl,
d his colleagues that McCarthy'S
tics had dipped In the smut
r /" in an effort to destroy the
mmunists' "maior political OBJ
lcle in America"
1T is difficult to believe that
senator Is really under attack
cause of the relatively trivial
enSes which have been alleged
ainst him by the special tWat-
,sl committee" Goldwater SAID.
Il suggest that Sen. Mccarthy is
ing a censure vote in this body