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...Committee, headed by Senators Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) and Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.), urged yesterday that the Senate formally censure McCarthy for his "contemptuous, contumacious, and denunciatory" treatment of a previous committee's investigations of his actions and his "reprehensible treatment" of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker last December...
...made up the select committee, called McCarthy to account for his conduct in two of the five main groups of charges. He was, they declared, both contemptuous in his refusal to appear before the Hendrickson Committee (which investigated his finances in 1952) and reprehensible in his treatment of General Zwicker. In a manner entirely free from timidity or politicking, they unanimously asked for his censure on both these counts...
...three other categories of charges, the senators felt free to criticize, but refrained from recommending censure. Why the Zwicker and Hendrickson charges were used is clear: they were the most obvious instances of McCarthy's misconduct. And so, quite understandably, they cut off the turtle's tail because it stuck out the farthest, and left the neck alone...
Neither the Zwicker nor the Hendrickson charges focused on the real issue; they were merely instances of the Senator's obscene and uncouth manner. The issue--in the five groups of charges there seemed to be but one--came up under Category Three, which stated that McCarthy "invited and urged federal employees to furnish him with information to aid in his investigations even if they would be violating the law, Presidential orders and their oaths of office...
...Dare They Go? The basic differences between McCarthy and the spirit of the Senate shone most clearly in an exchange between Watkins and McCarthy about the role of the Senate investigator. Taking off from McCarthy's celebrated attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker (when he said Zwicker was unfit to wear a general's uniform), Watkins asked McCarthy: "What is your view with respect to the right of Senators to lecture witnesses, or sort of pass judgment on them, whether they are guilty and all that sort of thing, in connection with these hearings?" Replied Joe: "I think...