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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 287
Mr. Kearns. I am sorry for these interruptions. This has been a procedure, Mr. Doherty, and other members, Mr. Knight and Mr. Birthright. We didn't deviate from it at this time. We have to keep the procedure running as we have here.
Mr. Padavay. May I ask you a question, Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Kearns. Yes.
Mr. Padway. Wlien a witness makes a statement that is in the negative or the affirmative and he says the answer is not true, surely, we ought not to be compelled to w^rite that out ; but the chairman ouglit to point out: "What do you mean by 'it isn't true'? Is the answer *Yes' made j^esterday untrue, or is the answer now untrue?"
If you will read that, you will find that it will imply or indicate that the answer of "yes" was not true, although it is seen that he means the answer of yesterday of "yes" to be the resignation was untrue than and true toda_y. We want to get the record straight. We want to use procedure here, not Gestapo proceedings as Mr. McCann has.
Mr. McCann. Don't make a statement to me about Gestapo proceedings.
Mr. Kearns. Mr. McCann.
Mr. Padway. I am not afraid of you or anybody like you.
^Ir. I^ARNS. Mr. McCann.
Off the record.
(Discussion olF the record.)
Mr. Kearns. Let's have order in the courtroom.
Mr. Padway. Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Kearns. Mr. Padway.
Mr. Padway. I would iike the record to show as a gentleman of some years of proceedings in court I apologize to you for what has happened. I think this is one of the most disgraceful proceedings — I am speaking under pressure — one of the most disgraceful proceedings I have witnessed in my life. I have never been attacked in a courtroom before.
I say to you now that the American Federation of Labor will ask this committee to remove Mr. McCann, who has conducted himself in the most disgraceful, most inhumane, most brutal, and ignorant manner that an attorney has ever conducted himself in any proceeding in court.
I say to you, Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the great American Federation of Labor, this man should be removed. It is a disgraceful, dirty, deliberate, malicious, brutal attack. I shall call before the committee of Congress your full committee, and the witnesses who are here today, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Touhy, Mr. Arnold — and what is your name ?
Mr. Somerset. Somerset.
Mr. Padway. ]Mr. Somerset, Mr. Reagan, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Boren, and the others who are here, to testify to one of the most vicious, most brutal, most ungentlemanly incidents and attacks that has ever been imposed upon me and that has ever been brought about in a courtroom.
I think, sir, that in justice to the situation and as a Member of Congress, it is incumbent upon you to reprimand your counsel for a situation that he brought on and which is despicable, dastardly, and wrong.