Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-23
New Hearing Battles
Due With Mccarthy
Return Next Week

All was quiet on the Mccarthy
front today and was expected to
remain so until the vacationing
Wisconsin Senator returns to the
fray, probably next Monday.
The next big battle was ex-
pected to take place when Sen
ator Mccarthy calls a meeting OF
his regular Senate Investigations
Subcommittee and the sugges-
ton is made formally for a
"housecleaning" of the subcom-
mittee staff.
A bipartisan move is looked
for in that direction. The three
subcommittee Democrats have
said they will insist that a num-
Der of matters regarding the
staff be cleaned up before there
are any further ''investigative
hearings" The matters" devel-
oped during the 36-day hearing
on the Army-McCarthy row.
Majority Favor Cleanup"
Senator Potter. Republican. of
Michigan, has said he will pro-
pose a "shakeup" of the Nc
Carthy committee staff. Saying
the hearing record was "satu-
rated" with untruthful state
ments indicating perjury on both
sides, the Michigan Senator said
that heads should roll on the
Army side too.
Senator Potter. said the staff
matter should be the first order
of subcommittee businesS-"dis-
posed of promptly" He indi-
Gated he would not proceed with
an investigation of Americans
imprisoned by Iron Curtain
countries until the staff question
is settled.
The three Democrats plus Sem
ator Potter add up to a majority
of the seven-member Subcom-
mittee for the advocates OF a
cleanup" But Senator McCar-
thy was expected to defend his
staff to the bitter end. particu-
larly if the effort is made, as it
probably will be, to separate Roy
M. Cohn, subcommittee general
counsel now on National Guard
duty in New York.
Referred to subcommittee.
Meanwhile, the Senate Rules
Committee referred to three
man subcommittee the two reso-
lutions seeking to remove Sen
ator Mccarthy from his COM
mittee chairmanshipS.
The subcommittee consists of
Chairman Jenner, Republican,
of Indiana, and Senators Carl
son, Republican, of Kansas, and
Hayden, Democrat. of Arizona.
There were no indications of
early action, however, since the
Rules Committee beginning
Monday will be busy holding
hearings on a code of fair prac-
tice for all Senate Investigations.
Senator Flanders, Republican,
Of Vermont, sponsor OF one OF
the resolutions has said he will
insist on Senate action about
July Is. He added that 1f the
resolution was bottled up by the
Rules Committee he would in
troduce another to strip Senator
Mccarthy of his chairmanships
of the Senate Government Oper-
ations Committee and the In
vestigations subcommittee.
Senator Lehman, Democrat. of
New York, is sponsor Of the other
resolution sent to the Rules sub
committee.
The other version of the Nc
Carthy subcommittee, the one
under Acting Chairman Mundt,
which conducted the Army-Mc-
Carthy inquiry, is attending to
the preliminaries of writing re-
port of the hearing for the Sen
ate. Senator Mundt expects to be
able to report by August 1.
AS the first step in that di-
rection, the subcommittee agreed
at a closed meeting yesterday to
permit Special Counsel Ray H.
jenkins to write for committee
members synopsis of the hear
ing.
Mr.. Jenkins will have nothing
TO do with writing the final re-
port, Senator Mundt made clear.
Democrats on the committee had
said they were ready tc chal-
lenge the attorneys qualification
to work on the report. They
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