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McClellan's statement that he
feels that it is a crime for some
one to give me information about
traitors in Government. I am
duty bound not to give the Sem
ator the names of those inform
ants.
IF any administration wants
to indict me for receiving and
giving the American people in
formation about communism.
they can just go right ahead and
do the indicting. -.
"As far as I am concerned, I
would like to notify those 2
million Federal employees that I
feel it is their duty to give us
any information which they
have about graft, corruption,
communism, treason, and that
there is no loyalty to a superior
officer which can tower above
and beyond their loyalty to their
country"
Issue Comes Up Again.
At yesterdays session of the
Senate Investigations Subcom-
mittee the issue flared again
soon after the White House
statement. The subcommittee is
investigating the Army's charges
that the Senator and his staff
sought preferential treatment Tor
Pvt. G. David iSchine. a former
staff consulta11t, and the Sena-
tors counter charge that the
Army was attempting to use Pvt.l
Schine as a hostage" to block
the subcommittee's investiga-
tion of suspected subversion at
the Signal Corps laboratories at
Fort Monmouth, N. j. But the
Schbne case was almost forgot
ten as Democrats argued with
Republicans, and Senator Nc
Carthy attacked both.
The argument was touched of
when the subcommittee at noon
issued a subpoena demanding
that the current witness. regu-
lar subcommittee Chief Counsel
Roy M. Cohn, furnish files show
ing work done by Pvt. Schine be-
fore he was drafted last Novem-
ber 8. Mr.. Cohn testified earlier
that his numerous attempts to
obtain passes for Pvt Schine
were due to the fact that Pvt.
Schine had information needed
to complete committee investiga-
tions of communism.
Mccarthy Accepts Subpoena.
Senator Mccarthy. as chair
man of the parent Government
Operations Committee. accepted
service of the subpoena and pro-
ceeded to announce to the sub |
committee that in view of what
Senators Mcclellan and Sym
ington had said the previous day,
and in view Of the Brownell |
statement from the White House |
he was not going to release any |
papers containing names OF con-
fidential informants.. He said he
was ordering his staff to with
hold the documents sought in
the subpoena.
The Senator said he had "in-
structed a vast number" Of Fed |
eral employees that they were
"duty-bound to give me informa-
ton even though some little bu-
reaucrat had stamped it secret
to protect himself. I still
advise all of these employees that
anything they have given me in
confidence will be treated in con-
f1dence."
Senator Mccarthy also charged
that the Democrats on the sub
committee think apparently the
criminals are those that give US
information about crime, rather
than the guilty party"
Senator Symington replied
sharply that the Democratic
members. who left the subcom-
mittee last summer in protest
against Senator McCarthy's "one-
man rule" had returned to it
with the understanding that all
decisions were to be by majority
vote. Therefore. he suggested the
subcommittee vote at once on
what he called "a very clear" is
sue.
do we follow the concept of
the President Of the United
States and the Attorney General
of the United States as to what
should or should not be done in
this matter, or do we follow the
opinion Of the junior Senator
from Wisconsin? I would like
now to propose that this COM
mittee vote as to whether or not
the counsel of this committee,
Mr.. Ray H. Jenkins subpoena
y