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engaged in. manufacturit Cir Wat tobe expelled. =: Aimed at someone who's fain! beartend y feel in my Hf e that wart one eng thing expulsion,” Monday aft said + Select €o mint senate Harrison, the Senate Years, was dejected by the vote, but leartened by the pane!’ sodelay a vote by the full late pending completion trial appeal. The Segate Ethics Committee - has found Sen. Harrison Williams guilty. of “ethically repugnant’ conduct, but it also has displayed its own repugnance of expelling a Significantly, none of the six* members of the committee found anything redeeming in Williams's conduct during the FBI's ABSCAM. “" investigation, and they voted unan- imously to recommend his expt ion. os Suet sy But then the committee recom- mended that the Senate delay vot- ing on expulsion until after a federal judge rules onthe New” Jersey Democrat's motion to over- turn his conviction on nine counts - of bribery, conspiracy and other... ‘charges. « aa i Why wait? If Williams gets out of the conviction on grounds that he was “entrapped” by the FBI, will \ the Ethics Committee then change ; its view that the senator's conduct was ethically repugnant? **: . Not likely. The Ethics Committee __-is not a court of law. Its function is ~to,determine whether a member's “conduct violates conflict-of-inter- est rules and reflects adversely on the Senate, and whether the mem- ber is fit to continue holding an off- ice of public trust. Sheet The committee has ‘determined , that Williams is not fit. In suggest ing that the vote be put off, the ._ committee seems to be hoping that the judge will deny Williams's ap- peal, and that the senator will then’ resign, thereby saving the mem- bership from the distasteful task of Williarps+ u tl ends ended, regardless of what Appens to his appeal. He should ‘esign. Since he won't, the Senate ought t him forthwith: