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Senator Flanders in his Tuesday speech called McCarthy "a one-man party" who is "doing his best to shatter" the G.O.P...
...Decided to work up a new set of rules for investigating committees to keep McCarthy's one-man show within bounds...
This example of committee procedure is, I presume, somewhat extreme in its ruthlessness. And yet, in principle, it may be taken as representative. Senator McCarthy, sitting as a one-man committee was, to use his own word, making "accusations" against Mr. Rothschild whom, ostensibly, he was asking for co- operation in an investigation. He was citing evidence of guilt and threatening punishment for it. And, indirectly at least, he was getting his judgment executed. In a word, he was treating Mr. Rothschild, not as a witness but as a culprit; he was requiring of him, not evidence, but a confession...
Then he got down to cases: "What motivates Walter Reuther? What prompted Adlai Stevenson's 'fear' speech? Could Senator Paul Douglas be worried about election year? . . . Just what is Wayne Morse and his one-man party contributing to the welfare of the country? Yet, this quartet rides like the Four Horsemen, spreading gloom and doom across the land . . . The left wing in America regards a depression as its one-way ticket into power...
Turning to the question of congressional investigating commitees, Griswold concluded his speech by questioning the propriety of "one-man" investigating groups. "A committee in the common acceptance of the term," he said, "is a group of persons, usually appointed to represent various points of view. Its actions reflect collective judgement taken after consideration and deliberation. In this light, I ask a question: Should these broad investigative powers ever be held by a single person, even though he is formally clothed with the title of a subcommittee...