Senate Report 474: proceedings against Murray L. Humphreys (1951)
Senate Report No. 474, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Murray L. Humphreys, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 161 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- Date
- 1951-06-25
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- S. Rept. No. 474, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951); Serial Set 11488
- Rights
- A work of the United States Congress. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105.
The printed caption is “Proceedings against Murray L. Humphreys for contempt of the Senate.” It is Senate Report No. 474, 82d Congress, 1st Session, submitted for the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, to accompany S. Res. 161, ordered printed June 25 (legislative day, June 21), 1951. It is printed in Serial Set volume 11488; the text was read from the Serial Set PDF on govinfo.
The report asks the Senate to certify the facts of Murray L. Humphreys’s contempt of the Senate to the United States Attorney. The report states that the witness was brought before the committee under a warrant issued pursuant to S. Res. 65 on May 28, 1951, in room P-36, United States Capitol Building, and that his refusal to answer prevented the committee from receiving testimony. It annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
The submitting senator’s name is not legible in the PDF text layer.
A committee report asking the Senate to certify a contempt is the committee’s account and request, not a court judgment. The refusals it describes are not admissions, and the outcome of the proceeding is not covered by this record. The committee’s closing report, filed separately, has a section on the status of the contempt cases.
The printed hearing volume that lists this witness: Part 13: Miscellaneous witnesses.
