MRS. SMITH SNUBBED IN COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000400030027-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: February 5, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Was `n ton Merry-Go4toufd THE WASRI1'GTON POST Meniday, February 5,1962 B 2
Mrs. Smith Sn u b bed ins Gum miftee
By Drew Pearson
Jockeying for committee Po-
sition in the U. S. Senate may
not mean much to- the out
sider. But insiders know ' it
whichth.e
pie have to live
During five
Congresses the
Bridges of New
Hampshire rose
the opening ses- " `"""a`
sion to announce that he
wished to step aside as rank-
ing member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee
in favor of his Republican col-
league from Massachusetts,
Leverett Saltonstall.
Inside fact was Saltonstall
done for Mrs. Smith what he return, he added up travel
asked Bridges to do for him. and entertainment 'expenses
Penalizilig a Lady?- to $7000. For good measure,
,he put a "one" in front of the
Ten years ago, S e n a t o r "seven"-making it $17,000 for
Smith was a member of the travel and entertainment. In-
McCarthy Investigating Com- ternal Revenue Service says
mittee. Being a lady of both this case will be prosecuted
courage and principle, she not only as a flagrant violation
didn't like McCarthy's ruth- of the law, but as a warning
less tactics and said so. Final- to other taxpayers against
ly she signed the "declaration abuses of entertainment and
fair play in the investigating New Lobbyists-Among the f
methods of the U. S. Senate. lobbyists who have turned up?
McCarthy promptly bounced on Capitol Hill at this sessio
Mrs. Smith off his Investigat- I of Congress so far are two',
Last week, Senator Smith Eisenhower: Clyde Wheeler,
again showed, courage. She representing the Sunray Mid-
Bridges ,with the argument
that since Bridges was rank-
ing Republican on both Ap-
propriations and Armed Serv-
ices, he should relinquish one
of these posts to his colleague
from Massachusetts,. Bridges
challenged John McCone as Continent Oil Company, and
unqualified. to be head of Cen- Bryce Harlow, representing
tral Intelligence. Central In- Proctor and Gamble, the giant
telligence hitherto has re- soap manufacturer, w h o s e
ported, intermittently and not president, Neil McElroy, used
very satisfactorily, to a sub- to be Ike's Secretary of De-
committee of Armed Services fense. Ike's former chief as-
Republicans are members. has been in touch with con-
. Mrs. Smith, whether Salton- gressmen on real estate mat-
stall bows, or not, is among tens in behalf of the First
the top two Republicans.. But Mortgage Investors. '
it's reported in Senate cloak- Red Carpet for Congo-
rooms that she will now be President Kennedy is all set
penalized for her opposition to give a red-carpet welcome
and denied a position on the to Premier Adaula of the Cen-
subcommittee which is sup- tral Congo Government when
posed to check on CIA
. he arrives for an official visit.
Now the shoe is on the
. NOTE-For a long time some Adoula has been invited main-
other foot and the tall blue- Senators have been demanding ly to demonstrate to Sen. Tom
blood from Boston, Lev Sal- a watchdog committee to Dodd and congressional critics
tonstall, is the top Republican scrutinize CIA, similar to the that Congo developments have
on the same two committees- Joint Atomic Energy ? Commit- now quieted down enough to
Appropriations- and Armed tee which checks on the AEC. make it safe for him to leave
Services.. But so far he has The Armed Services Subcom- the country. Adoula is very
not been as gallant as he asked mittee is a rather unsatisfac- pro-American and his com-
the late Senator Bridges to be. j tory makeshift until a perma- ments are expected to prove
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith nent watchdog committee is that American policy has
of Maine, also Republican, is established-if ever. r worked out successfully after
number two on the Armed months of turmoil.
Services Committee. Sena- News Capsules Personal Diplomacy-Presi-
tor Saltonstall, who can trace Tax Fraud-The Justice De- dent Kennedy got on the
.nys of tle Pilgrim fathers, clsrwn ? hard on a prominent Secretary of State Rusk per-
th
.
em to act,
Presiilerlt Si 1 FM Hof Affi?
nesia' and the Prime -Minuster
of Holland to come to New
York and talk together in or-
der to head off war. "Gent
those two fellows over here, .
and sit them down in New -
York and keep them there un-,
til they get some sense," the
President told Ambassador:.
Stevenson on the phone. Rusk
and Stevenson are still trying
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