Show i 00 r THE HE SEIZURE of the steel mills 3 by President Truman set off a barrage of ot criticism in the United States congress u from strictly pa par partisan Us an sources And much of ot the criticism against the Presidents President's action in taking over the mills came from many big sponsors of radio and television shows However one Republican in the Senate conceded to be the best constitutional lawyer in that body took ook his colleagues to ta task l He e was as Senator Wayne Morse Republican tot of t Oregon Nobody disputes constitutional con law with Senator Morse Mone and gets very far with It Said Senator Senator Sen SAn ator Morse in part I Z should like to suggest to those who I have havo heard toda today express themselves on constitutional law whose views in m my opinion wo would ld be laughed out of an any freshman treshman course in constitutional law in any of ot our law schools school that they will wUl never live Uve so lo long as BI to read a decision decision de de- of the United States State supreme court holding that in to this land in time of ot great national peril the President of ot the United States does not have the inherent power under the constitution to protect the safety safe sate ty and security of ot the tho nation until Congress Congre gets off ott its haunches and proceeds proceed to meet its it constitutional obligations and performs its duty Mr President X I am becoming a little weary ot of hearing politicians in an election year proceed to attack at tack the President of at the United States because they dl dislike hit his par par- when they themselves have yet to take action under the Constitution of th the United States Statu as 8 it is Js their clear duty to take if it they do no not like lib the kind of action the President of the United States State is taking in the exercise of his inherent in tn herent power I I 1 repeat I hope bope when a It Republican lican president occupies the White WhiteHouse House and and I f trust it will be in November November November No No- vember he 1952 1952 he e will wUI not fold hi his hands and fail tall to act when the boys bos in 10 Kor Korea are about to be jeopardized dined by failure on the part ot of the steel tee unions union and a group of ot steel companies o to keep the steel mUll mill of 02 America rolling roiling L Until the court wm I bands hands down a decision decision and and such opinion would be the first fiut of its kind in all aU our that history history that aU all the dicta that have appeared in the decisions de to date are not applicable I I shall shaU continue to say that it is the duty and the responsibility of the President of ot the United States in an hour of great crisis to proceed by executive action to protect the security of the nation I e Some of the steel mill executives have told the American people that the Presidents President's action was unprecedented dented when the fact ct is that such Presidents as Andrew Jackson Jackso Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wood Wood- row row Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt Roose velt veil took like actions and actions and no court would uphold an injunction against their authority Finally Senator Joseph McCarthy has bas been brought to censure by his own colleagues in his assault on individual in and personal liberty and the tho very integrity of his govern ment meat The senator from Wisconsin attacked the motives and Intent of five of ot his colleagues by charging that members of the senate sub senate sub subcommittee committee investigating his fitness to serve as a member of the United States senate were stealing tens of thousands of ot dollars and picking pickIng pick ing lag the pockets of at the taxpayers in their investigation of ot him Result Re Re- suIt sult was Senator McCarthy was slapped down by a vote of 60 to 0 in a Senate vote of confidence in k the Investigating committee and authorizing au the committee to proceed with its investigation Senator Gillette of Iowa chairman chair man of the committee a rather meek individual re reflected the bitterness bit which McCarthy has stirred up when he be declared that in his hi entire public life he ho had never been subjected to to more vicious vile vUe and vindictive insinuations insinuation against himself Senator A A. A S S. S Mike Mon roney tOney o of Oklahoma who cut his bis teeth eye In politics as a newspaper reporter declared l McCarthys McCarthy's a attack at tack would woul 1 destroy the very power pow er er integrity and dignity of govern overDo ran ran- men ment 4 |