The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-10-29
BLANTON SAVED
. FROM EXP ULS|ON
BY SEVEN VOTES
Texas Representative Publicly
Reprimanded by Speaker
MADE STUBBORN DEFENCE
Declared only Lack of Money
Prevented Circulation Of Of
fensive Statement

| Washington. Oct. 2S.-Saved from
being thrown out of the House OF Rep I
lresentatiyes by bare --argin OF I
leight votes. Thomas l. bIanton, u !
Texas Democrat, was publicly repri |
lnianded yesterday by Speaker Gillett |
| in accordance with resolution OF
censure, against which no man cast /
o single vote.
! Then moment later, as he walked |
l0ilt of the chamber with all eyes upon I
him, he t0ppled over in a heap. Some !
! OF his colleagues, who had voted to
oxpel him, picked him up and placed I
lh'm on lounge. But he did not stay
there long. Rousing himself, he
Stumbled out, the tears streaming
ldOwn his cheeks and as he went away
The was heard to express the hope that
The might never see the House again.
There was no doubt OF the fact, as
members expressed it, that the Texan
was utterly crushed and worn by his
Experience of the day. For an hour
land ten minutes, with hostile eyes
upon him, he fought to defend him
lself from the charge that he had
ltransgressed the law by putting into
the Congressional Record document
idescribed as unspeakably vile.
] Before he got up to speak in his
Town behalf, it was the view OF Re
Ipuhlicans and Democrats alike that
faction upon the resolution to expel
him would depend upon his own at
Ititude. He sat with folded hands as
Representative Mondell. the Republi-
Ican leader, pleaded earnestly to have
him cast out. And then. pale and
smiling, he stepped briskly to the
front as the leader sat down.
His voice was hoarse and broken.
He touched rapidly upon the charges.
and then his old time fighting fire re-
turned Right at the beginning he
said he knew the House was prepared
to expe him.
When a rap of the gavel sounded
the end OF the hour allotted him I'M
der the rules, he stopped suddenly in
the middle OF a sentence and turning
sharply upon his heels was half way
out when a request was made from
TIE Democratic size that he have
thirty additional minutes and was
Iopposed by Mondell. But the leader
was quick to withdraw his objections
ana the Texan was summoned back.
Refusing at first to yield for ques
iions, he permitted Representative
Longworth to ask him something, and
Republicans asserted tonight that the
reply had turned the tide against
him. Tie Ohio III. nber wanted 70
know il the report was true that MIR.
Blanton had declared an intention to
Inan 2o0UOU copies OF the undelivered
speech, with its offending affidavit,
after the liouse had ordered Il
stricken from the Record
Only lack of money, he said,
prevented its mailing to every voting
Imam in the United States.
Instantly half dozen representa-
tiyes we're on their feet trying 10
break in. Representative Blanton had
Ire. terated that the publication had
been sent out lin just cause" that
no law had been violated. Dramatic
ally he pleaded with the House, for
the sake of his wife and children, to
Iput back into the Record. his own
lundeliyered speech, in which he de-
clared there was not one word ca
Eculated to give offense. But Republi-
cans objected.