Evening star., 1954-10-03
Review 0 The Week
Probers Urge Mccarthy Censure
Review of The Week:
Pitched Bottle Brews
As Senate Prepares
To Meet November 8

The red hunting Senator from
!. Wisconsin, Republican Joseph r.
Mccarthy. has had many setbacks
and many triumphs in his stormy
career. But critical report by the
Watkins committee last week was
doubtless the greatest blow yet. It
will take some fancy footwork to
weather the round.
The Six-lnarl, nonpartisan group
of respected Senators wrote report
on their study Of Senator Mccarthy
which included these comments:
The uncontradicted testimony :. I.
shows that Senator Mccarthy di-
rected and gave to the press an abu-
sive and insulting statement con-
corning Senator Hendrickson. cal
culated to wound q colleague, solely
because Senator Hendrickson was a
member of the subcommittee and
performing services required by the
Senate
"It was the duty of Senator Nc
Carthy to accept the repeated invi-
tation Thy the 1872 investigating
subcommittee, and his failure to
appear was obstructive of the proc
esSes of the Senate, for no formal
order of subpoena should be neces-
sary to bring Senator'S before Senate
committees when their own honor
and the honor Of the Senate are at
ISSUE"
"The letters of Senator Mccarthy
to the respective chairmen Of the
subcommittee 3. are clearly con-
temptuous. disregarding entirely his
duty to cooperate, ridiculing the
subcommittee, accusing these COM
mittee officers of the Senate with
dishonesty and impugning their mo-
tives. and making 1t impossible for
them to proceed in orderly fashion,
or to complete their duties"
"Such language directed by Sem
ator toward committee of the
Senate pursuing its authorized func-
tions is clearly Incorporate, in bad
taste, and unworthy of member
of this body"
"It is the opinion of the select
committee that these charges of po-
litical waste and dishonesty [against
the 1872 subcommittee for i'm
proper motives were denunciatory
and unjustified."
n II
His public statement with refer
ence to Senator Hendrickson was
vulgar and insulting"
"It is our opinion that the failure
of Senator Mccarthy to explain to
the Senate [about his finances, and
campaign activitiesl was conduct
contumacious toward the Senate and
injurious to its effectiveness, dignity.
responsibilities processes and pres
tige."
e.. the conduct Of Senator Nc
Carthy in inviting Federal employees
to supply him with information,
without expressly excluding there
from classified documents, tends to
create a disruption of the orderly
and constitutional functioning of
the executive and legislative
branches of the Government. which
tends to bring both into disrepute.
Such conduct cannot be condoned
and is deemed improper.
when Senator Mccarthy offered
to make public 1.-THE two and a quar-
ter page document it was an as
sumption of authority which itself
is disruptive of orderly governmental
processes, violative of accepted COM
ity between the two great branches
of our Government, the executive
and legislative, and incompatible
with the basic tenets Of effective
democracy"
"This committee concludes that in
offering to make public the contents
of this classified document Senator
Mccarthy committed grave error.
He manifested high degree of ir-
responsibility -
y
1--WE feel that it was evident that
his examination [of Gen. zwicker]
was unfair +. -
Under these circumstances, the
conduct of Senator Mccarthy to-
ward Gen. Zwicker in reprimanding
and ridiculing him, in holding him
up to public scorn and contumely.
and in disclosing the proceedings Of
the executive session in violation of
the rules of his own committee, was
inexcusable."
Two Censure Counts
Senator McCarthy's action were so
reprehensible in two instances, the
committee concluded. that he de-
serves vote of censure from the
Senate. They urged he be censured
for his contempt" of the Privileges
and Elections Subcommittee of the
82d Congress, which attempted to in
vestigate his personal finances, and
for unfair" examination Of Brig.