The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Mccarthy Goes
Into Showdown
Meeting Today

IOW Will al Ill OlllCIdlS. OcIuO'
cratic members were demanding
a full public hearing on the charges
and counter charges.
Sen. Mcclellan DARK, VIII
calls signals for the groups Demo.
cratic members, told reporters he
would insist at the closed door
meeting that the subcommittee:
1. Ask that its parent body, the
Committee, take over the inquiry.
2. Have all testimony taken in
public hearings.
3. That the group hire a Especial
and impartial staff to assist in
the hearings. A reporter asked
whether he was disposed to ''let
the staff that is under fire" par
ticipate and Mcclellan answered
mo, sir"
The subcommittee entire mem
bership of four Republicans and
three Democrats turned out for
the meeting. Sen. Lennon (D-NC),
a member of the parent Govern
ment Operations Committee, went
into the room a few minutes after
the session was convened.
Mccarthy accuses Secretary OF
the Army Stevens and John G..
Adams, the Army's general coun-
sci, of using ''blackmail" tactics
to block his investigations Of al
legged Reds in uniform.
Army officials accused Nc
Carthy and Roy Cohn, the sub.
committees chief counsel, of ex-
erting improper preSsureS to win
special favors for a drafted pal,
wealthy Pvt. G. David Schine, a
former member of their staff.
Worried Senate Republican lead
ers called a closed-door huddle of
heir own to consider their course
in the blazing fight which pits Re-
publican against Republican in
his campaign year.
Substitute Chairman
Mccarthy has agreed to step
aside temporarily and let another
senator preside as chairman of
the subcommittee in the inquiries,
but declared firmly he would fight
for the right to sit in the hearings
and participate in the questioning
Of witnesses the same as any other
member.
Sen. Mundt (R-SD), the man Nc
Carthy has picked to preside at
he inquiry, started a last-ditch
effort to induce Mccarthy to let
some other committee take over.
Mundt is a member of the SUBJ
committee, second senior Repub-
lican to Mccarthy.
81 still think the country would
be best satisfied by having a neu-
trail committee handle it," he said.
But failing in that-and he clear
Iy expected to fail-he said he will
demand that the subcommittee
hire a temporary, small special
staff to handle the investigation,
thus short-circuiting Cohn and
other aides who are under the
Army's fire.
The Army has accused both
Cohn and Francis P. Carr, the
subcommittee staff chief through
whom Mccarthy handles. person
mel matters, of improper tactics.
An Army report said Cohn used
threats.
Partially Hinied
Mundt said it is stretching
too far" to expect the
people to look ON staff
ers under Carr's control to probe
Impartially into the conduct Of
their boss.
Mccarthy repeatedly was plan
ming to propose, instead, that the
invite Cohn and
Adams to sit as opposing ''pros-
ecutors" with equal rights to
witnesses.
Mccarthy yesterday fatty re-
iected broad hints from Senate
COP leadership and from within
his own subcommittee that he call
off speaking tour and move for
4 swifter showdown on the issues
involved.
Clearly counting on the Senate's
code of senatorial court
esq to forestall any move to in
vestigate a senator in his absence,
he announced he would leave
Wednesday noon on his four-day
speaking tour, and added:
81 will be gone Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. There will
be no hearing Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday"
Sen. Knowland of California,
The Senate Republican leader, had
told reporters he can't tell fellow
senator's what to do but the in
quiry ought to have priority over
all other matters"
Mccarthy made public a letter
to Stevens dated yesterday de-
handing a new report on the ham
ding Of the case Of Maj. Irving
PereSs, Army dentist whose pro-
motion and discharge were q focal
point in another of their rows.