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~ ee WOR RELBASE THU"*DAY, SEPTEMBF *, 19°" ~~ PAGE 2 L. poveow ted oR. — ‘ xx defect. The two holed up in secret, where Biemiller and Kuchel came up with an amendment to delete the NcClellan provisions, With the final draft of his amendment in hand, Kuchel strode out onto the Senate floor with a new aide at his side, It wes Ralph Duncan, borrowed from the labor braintrust of John F, Kennedy. At this point, Massachusetts Sen, Leverett Saltonstall, normally cool and collected, angrily told Kuchel to "get that guy off our side of the aisle," Kuchel, however, paid no heed. Duncan remained with him for the rest of the debate, "he Kuche? amendment to scrap the bill of rights was a cleverly contrived parliamentary curve ball, designed to evade the fact that the Senate had earlier committed itself not to vote again on the McClellan amendment, Sen. Styles Bridges charged the Kuchel amendment was nothing but a slick legislative trick, and that it violated the spirit, 4f not the letter, of the Senate rules, Republican Kuchel stood fast, with Democrat Duncan lending moral support, and retorted that he and his co-sponsors -- Democratic Senators Neuberger and Church, for example -- "need not apologize" for their amendment, The Senate, by this time, was in a tempest. Kuchel's final remarks were met by boos from the Republican side of the aisle, something the oldest hill veterans could not recall happening before, Idaho's Republican Henry Dworshak, white-faced with anger, accosted Kuchel and shouted: "You four-flusher} What are you trying to do to the Republican Party?" The usually mild-mannered Dworshak unleashed a right-hand punch at Kuchel, which failed te land only because a colleague quickly jumped hetween them, _ The Kuchel amendment passed as labor's lobbyists applied the « screws and a strong reform bill was completely destroyed. Republican Jeaders have not forgiven Kuchel to this day, cd (MIF)