Evening star., 1954-04-24

said the subcommittee should
consider none of such evidence
unless all of it is examined.
Mcclellan Offers Suggestion.
Senator Mcclellan, who is
slowly taking on the role as Sen
ator McCarthy's key opponent,
quickly took up Senator McCar-
thy on the offer. He suggested
all monitoring reports go into
evidence.
Then Senator Mccarthy asked
that any such evidence be SUBJ
mitted in chronological order.
Senator Mcclellan accepted that,
too.
But there was a legal compli-
cation.
The Federal Communications
Act provides THAT it is illegal
for any person mot being au-
thorized by the sender" to Gin
tercept any communication and
divulge or publish the con-
tents to any person"
This has been interpreted by
Federal law enforcement officials
to mean that telephone calls may
be intercepted but they cannot
be used as evidence in Federal
courts without permission of
both parties to the conversation.
Mr.. WEIGH volunteered that all
OF the Army principals would
give their approval in advance
to release of any monitored tele-
phone calls they made. and
which the subcommittee felt were
relevant to the controversy:
Mr.. Welch challenged Senator
Mccarthy, too, to agree. Sena-
tor Mccarthy eventually did, and
so did Mr.. Cohn and MIR. Carr.
Most of the debate was coldly
polite. But spectators knew
they were playing for keeps. At
one point, Senator Mccarthy
apparently tried to prevent an
examination of the monitoring
reports by suggesting that Mr..
Lucas also had reports on con-
versations between Secretary
Stevens and members of the
subcommittee.
II will have to question him
about all those other conversa-
tions," Senator Mccarthy said.
Squabble Was Expected.
Some subcommittee members
exchanged glances. but they kept
burrowing toward the decision
to bring in all the documents.
Senator Mundt told reporters
later that the fight over the
monitoring report was a squab-
BILE we knew was going to come"
I'VE knew it," he said, "as
soon as we learned that the
transcripts were available"
Asked why the subcommittee
must be super cautious in getting
unanimous agreement on how
the material was to be used,
Senator Mundt said:
If these hearings wind up in
some court action, we must not
have done anything that would
invalidate it,"
Senator Mundt referred to a
possibility of, perjury against
some of the principals who have
told contradictory stories.
The subcommittee, ironically,
already knew the gist of the
monitoring report which pro-
voked the controversy and even
tually widened the scope of the
evidence to be examined.
Before Mr.. Lucas ever took
the witness stand, Secretary
Stevens had testified about the
November 7 conservation with
Senator Mccarthy. The conver-
sation surprised Mr.. Stevens
because during the talk, Senator
Mccarthy did not argue in favor
of Pvt. Schine as he is reported
to have done so often.
Stunned Schine.
Senator Mccarthy called"
Mr.. Stevens testified about the
November z conversation, "and
. went on then to discuss
David Schine and said he did
not want David Schine assigned
back to this committee.
well. as had never had any
intention of assigning David
Schine back to this committee
once he was inducted into the
Army. there was no problem in
my mind in quickly agreeing
that he would not be assigned
back to the committee.
Senator Mccarthy gave some
reasons as to why he felt that
way, which added up raising a
question in my mind as to just
how important Mr.. Schine was
to the committee.
Senator Mccarthy did say
that he thought this would be
misinterpreted and would be lad
from that angle.
Senator Mccarthy says that
one of the few things that he
had trouble with Mr.. Cohn
about was David Schine. He said
that Roy thinks that Dave
ought to be general and op-
crate from penthouse on the
Waldorf-AStoria' or words to
that effect.
Senator Mccarthy then said
that he thought a few week ends
off for David Schine might be
arranged OF words to that effect.
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