Evening star., 1954-08-09
Senator's Plan Rules
70 Keep Probe Of
Mccarthy in Bounds
BY Tho A,seeia,.d Pres.

TIIdlIHY I'LL DVunuS
BY The Asseei1isd Press
Senators sitting charges
against Senator Mccarthy today
indicated they viii draft rules
to keep their hearings from
going far afield.
Both Senator's Watkins, Re-
publican, Of Utah and Edwin C.
johnson. Democrat, of Colorado
chairman and vice chairman OF
the six-man committee picked
to hear censure charges against
Senator Mccarthy, told q news
man 1t is obvious some of the
46 specific allegations will have
to be tossed out.
A third committee member
said an accusation that Senator
Mccarthy had not given serv-
ices OF comparable value" for
a $4,000 fee paid him by Lus-
tron Corp. for writing a housing
pamphlet might be dropped. The
Senator declined use of his
name.
46 Accusations Listed.
The charge was filed by SEN
ator Fulbright. Democrat, of
Arkansas. who with Senators
Flanders, Republican, of YER
mont and Morse, independent,
OF Oregon detailed the 46 counts
against Senator Mccarthy.
A move to keep q firm hand
when hearings get under way
was promised by a Democratic
member of the bipartisan spe-
cial committee as it gathered for
o closed session this afternoon.
The Senator, who asked that
he not be named, said he viii
propose a rule of relevancy for
testimony designed to curb any
"bulldozer tactics" that may de-
velop. He said he favors public
hearings in which the chairman
will have the right to cut off
any witness when he attempts
to go beyond the scope of the
charges as defined by the COM
mittee.
May Begin Task Today.
The committee may start Sc
lecting today the charges it will
consider.
Senator Ellender, Democrat,
OF Louisiana gave his views on
the Lustron fee charge in a
weekend radio address. He
said that If any moral wrong
were involved the people of Wis
consin already had .absolved
Senator Mccarthy of blame by
re-electing him in 1852 when
information about the fee was
publicly available.
Senator Ellender, who is not
q member of the committee. said
further in an interview that he
does not believe the Senate will
be willing to censure Senator
Mccarthy for having made what
Senator Fulbright and Senator
Flanders called an "unwar-
ranted attack" on Gen. George
c. Marshall in a June IA, 1851
Senate speech.
Abhors Attack on Marshall.
Il abhor it and I would not
have done it," Senator Ellender
said. II have always had great
respect for Gen. Marshall. But
Mccarthy was exercising a con-
stitutional privilege to criticize
q former official of our Govern
ment. 1t is no worse than things
that have been said in the Senate
about Presidents and others in
the past"
One committee member said
the group is specially interested
in a charge that Senator Nc
Carthy melted Government en-
ployes to disregard their oaths
In furnishing him with security
information. Senator Ellender
said Senator Mccarthy may have
"overstepped the bounds" in that
instance and Senator George,
Democrat, of Georgia, called it
"one of the big issues" in the
inquiry.
Senator Mcclellan of Arkan-
sas. senior Democrat on Senator
McCarthy's Investigations sub
committee but not a member of
the special group, said he might
be willing to vote for specific
charges within my own, knowl-
edge" although he would have
opposed the general Mccarthy
censure motion Senator Flanders
originally offered.
Urges Change of Methods.
Senator H. Alexander Smith, |
Republican. of New Jersey;
speaking on an NBC radio-TV
program yesterday, said he often
disagreed with Senator McCar-
thy and certainly I don't ap-
prove" Of his investigating meth
ods. But that doesn't mean you
have to have a vote of censure."
he said, explaining that he
wanted the special committee to
tell Senator Mccarthy to change
his methods.
The censure move, Senator
Smith added, embarrassed" him
in his effort to get Senator Nc
Carthy to work closer with the ,
executive branch in combating
communism. He said he was
trying to persuade Senator Nc
Carthy to go to President Eisen-
hover and 'offer to work with
the Governments and not against
it, and that FBI Chief j. Edgar
Hoover has expressed eagerness
to work with Senator Mccarthy |
ION a cooperative basis and not
on competitive basis, as it is
today" II
Although Senator Watkins |
said the special committee hear
ings might have to be delayed |