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...motion to committee. Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...
...Cripple. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney was the first to object, protested that Knowland's plan "would amount to indefinite postponement, putting it on ice and avoiding meeting the issue head on." Answered Knowland: "I do not subscribe to the intimation . . . that we are a body of intimidated men." Knowland reminded Monroney that the Democratic Party had never censured McCarthy, though it controlled the Senate, when McCarthy was "very powerful." Said Knowland: ". . . Now that perhaps he has been a little crippled, it can do what it was not willing to do then." Shot back Monroney: ". . . If he is crippled...
...Knowland, insisting on a committee consideration of the motion, said: "I would not censure a criminal, even had I seen a criminal act committed, without at least giving the person his day in court...
...Senate is as intractable as Knowland's ice trays. Its rules are designed to humor the egos and the caprice of men who all regard themselves as national celebrities. In his difficult job, Knowland works with tireless energy, but in training himself for statesmanship, he had to bypass a tutelage in political finesse. He lacks Martin's knack for looking ahead, often neglects to count votes long enough in advance because of his preoccupation with a bill currently on the Senate floor...
Presence Denied. By contrast to Knowland's troubles with senatorial prima donnas and his relative lack of experience (nine years in the Senate), Joe Martin has been a Congressman for 29 years and commands great respect from the House's feudal barons, the committee chairmen. By his gift for teamwork, his influence over chairmen, his control of the traffic-regulating Rules Committee, and by the tightness of the House's rules, Joe Martin has kept his House in order...