Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-17
Mccarthy Says
He Won tGag
Shakeup Move
Lone Objection
Gould Cancel
Tuesday Meeting
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By jones Y. Newton

Senator Mccarthy said today
that so far as he was concerned
there will be showdown Tues
day on bipartisan demands for
a shakeup of his Senate Investi-
cations subcommittee staff.
The Wisconsin Republican,
with an apparent majority of
the seven-member subcommittee
against him. indicated he would
interpose no objections to full
committee vote on the so-called
staff housekeeping" motions al
ready introduced.
But the showdown session of
the subcommittee has been set
for noon Tuesday. a time when
the Senate will be in session.
Holding of the meeting will re-
Quire unanimous consent, and it
was possible the meeting might
be blocked by objection just as
was done yesterday on a hear
ing Senator Mccarthy planned
to hold in Boston today on al
legged Communist infiltration of
defense plants.
Key to the battle over the
subcommittee staff was the vote
of Senator Mcclellan, the rank
ing Democrat, who is busy cam
paigning for re election in
Arkansas. Senator Mccarthy
blocked a decisive vote on the
staff issue Thursday by ruling
that Senator McClellan's proxy
did not conform to subcommittee
rules. He said it was not di-
rected to specific point.
Offers to Call Mcclellan.
Senator Mccarthy said if Sem
ator Mcclellan was available he
would talk to him by telephone
and accept proxy in that way
If he would submit it in writing
later. He said he did not wish
to deny the Senator a vote "sim-
ply because he has to be in Ar
kansas" Senator Mcclellan had
described the earlier Mccarthy
action as delaying tactic"
On another front. Senator
Flanders, Republican, of Yer
mont. said he was dropping
resolution to have the Senate
relieve Senator Mccarthy from
his committee Craftsmanship. He
yielded to the unanimous oppo-
sition of the Senate Republican
Policy Committee.
AS substitute. Senator Flan-
ders said he would introduce on
Tuesday a resolution to censure
Senator Mccarthy. It reads:
Resolved. that the conduct
Of the Senator from Wisconsin,
Mr.. Mccarthy, as chairman of
the Senate Permanent Subcom-
mittee on Investigations, is UNI
becoming a member of the
United States Senate, is contrary
to Senatorial traditions, and
tends to bring the Senate into
disrepute, and such conduct is
hereby condemned"
There was no immediate re-
action from Republican leaders
to the new Flanders resolution.
But the author said he expected
it to pass, and there were firm
indications that it would receive
considerably more support from
both Republicans and Democrats
than the original would have
received.
Feared Precedent.
Senator Flanders said in a
statement that several Senators
told him "that while they abhor
the conduct of Senator McCar-
thy. they felt my toriginaD reso-
luton affected one of the basic
traditions of the Senate-the
method by which chairmen of
committees were designated
by seniority.
The 73-year-old Republican
said his new motion would per-
NIT a clear-cut vote on McCar-
thyism." He said that so every
member will know his plans
fully, he will make public Mon
day the text of a speech he will
deliver in support of the motion
Tuesday. Then. he said, any Sem
ator who stays away from the
vote will do so ''by deliberate
decision of which the public
will be aware"
Senator Flanders predicted
the Republicans would go down
to defeat in the elections next
November, and possibly in the
Presidential election in 1856, un-
less the party acts now ito re-
pudiate" Senator Mccarthy. He
said Senator Mccarthy is now