SENATE POWERS of McCarthy

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 7

SENATE POWERS of McCarthy

Party To Oppose Reduction CNJZ. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 15. Senate Republican leaders agreed unanimously today to oppose a move aimed at stripping Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin) of his Senate committee chairmanships. The decision was disclosed in a written announcement by Senator Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, after a meeting of the group. Senator Ferguson icrorted that the committee had unanimously adopted a resolution which was obviously aimed at the anti-McCarthy action promised by Senator Ralph Flanders (Republican, Vermont).

The resolution authorised the Senate Republican leader, Senator William Knowland, to offer a motion to table any move during the remainder ot the 1954 session to force a Senate vote on matters involving organisation and operation of the Senate. Senator Flanders’s resolution to strip Senator McCarthy of his chairmanships is now tied up in the Senate Rules Committee. He said yesterday he would make a motion in the Senate on Tuesday to force the matter out of committee and on to the Senate floor.

Programme For U.S. Road-Building (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 15. A vast road-building programme across the United States appeared certain today regardless of whether State Governors accept President Eisenhower’s £22,320,000,000 10-year plan. The Governors wound up their fortysixth annual conference with a decision to make their own study before doing anything about the Presidential proposal. They were expected to meet in Washington late this year to thresh out with Mr Eisenhower what role the Federal Government would play in a field which many contended belonged to the States alone. None of them quarrelled with the idea that bigger and better roads were needed.