POLICY OF SENATE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 7

POLICY OF SENATE

Support For

President

Jfßec. 11 p.m.) , WASHINGTON, November 4.

President Eisenhower should find it easier to win approval for his basic foreign policy legislation, including liberalisation of trade and tariffs, from the incoming Democratic Congress than from the outgoing Republican Congress, Reuter’s chief Washington correspondent said today. One reason for this apparent paradox is that, because of the seniority system through which the Congressional hierarchy is fixed, President Eisenhower frequently found himself obliged to ✓ work in the outgoing Congress with Republican leaders who were out of line with parts of his foreign policy. Senator William Knowland (Republican, California), the present majority leader in the Senate, and an intense supporter of the Chinese Nationalists, had several times been at loggerheads tb® Administration over policy concerning the Far East, Formosa, and the United Nations. But if the Democrats retained their present grip on the Senate, Senator Knowland would be replaced as majority leader by Senator Lyndon Johnson, of Texas. The President could not but regard this as a distinct improvement for his foreign policy. Senator Johnson had pledged him■elf in the election campaign to support the President’s basic foreign policy programme. He also has a long record of opposition to attempts to cut foreign aid budgets. The only embarrassment which Senator Johnson is likely to cause the President is a continuation of his persistent demands for greater expenditures on the armed services. The replacement of Senator Alexander Wiley, of Wisconsin, by Senator Walter George, of Georgia, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee might also be to the President’s advantage. Both men are supporters of the basic internationalist foreign policy of the Eisenhower Administration. But the veteran Senator George, probably the most respected member of the Senate, might exercise greater influence in building up majorities for foreign policy legislation than could Senator Wiley, whose reoutation for humour •nd practical jokes had earned him more popularity than power. McCarthy to Step Down

The Democrats will topple Republicans from other committee chairmanship*. Senator Joseph McCarthy will • step down as chairman of the Senate’s: Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, Senator William Jenner from chairmanship of the Internal Security Sub-committee and its parent Rules Committee, and Senator Leverett Saltonstall from his post as chairman of the Armed Services Committee. The United Press says Senator McCarthy will be replaced by Senator John L. McLellan (Arkansas), who sat as one of Senator judges in the 36-day Army-McCarthy hearings. Sources close to Senator McLellan said he favoured the creation of a joint Senate-House committee to investigate Communist activities. . The Senate is to convene in special session on Monday to consider a recommendation by a special committee that it censure Senator McCarthy for conduct unbecoming a Senator. This will be the “old” Senate—not including any of the newly-elected members, who will not take office until January,