Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Congressman
Off on Trips
To Far Lands
BY JACK BELL
Associated Press Staff Writer

BY JACK BELL
Associated Press Staff Writer
! Many members of Congress
are off and winging again to
faraway places. AS usual, tax
payers will foot most of the
bills for visits to Paris, Berlin
and other intriguing world
spots.
Two Senators and six Rep
resentatives provided the most
spectacular addition to the
touring lawmakers when they
turned up in Berlin yesterday
in the uniforms they keep
carefully pressed for active
duty as Army Reserve officers.
Senator Thurmond, Demo-
crat of South Carolina, a re-
serve major general, and Sem
ator Marlborough, Democrat of
Texas, a reserve colonel, said
the group wanted to study the
Berlin situation before pro-
ceeding to other places in Eu-
rope and elsewhere around the
world. A United States Mill
tary Air Transport plane was
at their disposal. s
House members were headed
by Col. Ken Hechler, Demo-
crat of West Virginia, and Lit.
Coils. Lawrence H. Fountain,
Democrat of North Carolina,
Harlan Hagen, Democrat of
California, w. Pat Jennings,
Democrat of Virginia, G. Ell
lott Hagan, Democrat of
Georgia, and Phil Weaver, Re
publican Of Nebraska. For Mr..
Weaver, it was a kind of fare
well journey. He was defeated
for denomination in the pri-
mary.
Fulbright Due
Senator Fulbright, Democrat
of Arkansas, chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee,
is expected to join a dozen of
his Senate colleagues tomor-
row in Paris where they are
exchanging ideas with parlia-
mentarians from other NATO
countries. Most of his col
leagues had a week end In
Paris before the conference
opened, but Senator Fulbright
was laid up with bronchitis.
The Senate delegation in
cluded Senators Harry F. Byrd,
Democrat of Virginia. who
took off earlier on his own;
Kefauver, Democrat of Ten
nessee.; Smathers, Democrat
of Florida; Randolph, Demo-
crat of West Virginia; Cannon,
Democrat of Nevada; Nc
Carthy. Democrat of Mime
sofa; Hickenlooper, Republic
can of Iowa; Mundt, Repub-
lican of South Dakota; Ku-
chel, Republican of California;
Cooper, Republican of Ken
lucky; Javits, Republican of
New York, and Capehart, Re-
publican of Indiana.
For Senator Capehart, de-
feated in last Tuesdays cleo
ton, it was something of a
consolation journey.
House Delegation
A delegation of House mem
bers to the Paris meeting was
headed by Representative
Hays, Democrat of Ohio.
Speaker Mccormack, Demo-
crat of Massachusetts,, had des-
ignated Representative Cooley.
Democrat of North Carolina,
and Barry, Republican of New
York, as the other official
House delegates.
West Berlin already has
been visited by a group of
three Senators and a former
member who embarked earlier
on what was labeled as a fact
finding tour for President
Kennedy.
Transported in a White
House jet, Senate Democratic
Leader Mansfield led the quar-
tet which expected to complete
a circuit of the world before
Christmas.
Senators Pell, Democrat Of
Rhose Island, and Boggs, Re-
publican of Delaware, signed
up for this tour. Benjamin A.
Smith II, Democrat of Massa-
chusetts, went along, although
he had been replaced on the
Senate payroll at midnight last
Tuesday when Edward M. (Ted)
Kennedy, the Presidents
brother. was elected as his
successor. (Sente sources said
Mr.. Smiths expenses probably
would come out of White House
funds and not from Senate
\ funds)
Two lame duck House mem
bers were among four who
took off earlier in the week
on an official study mission
for the House Subcommittee
on Inter American Affairs.
The group scheduled visits to
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Pan
anna, Costa Rica, Guatemala
and Mexico. =
Lone Democrat
Representative Selden, DEM
ocrat of Alabama, the sub
committee chairman, was the
lone Democrat in the group.
Republicans included william
S. Maitland of California, who
was reelected; Laurence Cur
tbs of Massachusetts,, who for
feited his House seat in an
unsuccessful bid for his party's
senatorial nomination, and
r repre- sentative Marguerite
Stitt Church of Illinois, who
did not seek reelection.
A Senator who didn't choose
to run again, John Marshall
Butler, Maryland Republican,
also took off on three-week
tour. Representing the Senate
Commerce Committee. Senator