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...clear: the Senate has hung a can on Senator McCarthy that years of tongue wagging will not shake off. While the law-makers of the 83rd Congress have cured the most apparent symptom of the disease that McCarthy brought to the upper house, next year's 84th Congress should strike at the cause of the sickness by placing effective curbs on committees. It should assure the nation that no other unscrupulous individual will ever use the broad powers of a Congressman for personal political advantage...
...McCarthy matters during the special censure session, Knowland had an issue of "greater importance" to discuss. He feared that the U.S. was being lulled into a blind policy of coexistence with Soviet Russia that would ultimately lead to Communist conquest. Then he made an astonishing proposal: Committees of the 84th Congress, early next year, should "summon the State and Defense officials and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fully inquire into our foreign and defense policy to find out where in their judgment it will take us and whether ... a basic change in the direction of our policy is warranted...
...great deal of rushing about and whispering, Majority Leader Knowland made a motion for a ten-day adjournment to give McCarthy time enough to recover. Some Democrats protested that the long delay was not necessary; they viewed it as a trick to delay censure action until the Democratic 84th Congress takes over. Oregon's Wayne Morse told how he had made nine speeches in 1951 with his broken jaw still wired. New York's Lehman told how he had campaigned with a fractured leg. Finally, however, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen spoke...
...Atomic Energy Commission and another to the Supreme Court; 2) To give a "quiet burial" to the Dixon-Yates private power contract, which the Democrats have made a partisan issue. The point is, as the President forecast, that if the Democrats were invested with responsibility for the 84th Congress, they would put their partisan considerations foremost. It is only because the Senate returned before Jan. 3, 1955 that the process has begun so early...
...members elected to the 84th Congress this year, four senators and 35 representatives are Harvard alumni...