Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-28

Washington. Oct. 27.-Ssved frcm be- [ ing thrown out of. the house of represent atives- by bare margin of eight votes, Thomas l.. Blanton. a Texas democrat | was publicly reprimanded late today by | Speaker Gillett, in accordance with a | resolution of censure, against which not | a vote was cast. Then, moment later. as he walked l out of the chamber, he toppled over in a | heap. Some of his colleagues who had voted to expel him picked him up and placed him on lounge. But he did not stay there long. Housing himself, he | stumbled out the tears streaming down | his cheeks. and as he went away he Vas | heard to express the hope that he 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 ex- perience of the day.
 For an hour and ten minutes. with hos tile eyes upon him. he fought to defend himself from the charge that he had 1 trsnsgressed the law by putting into the | Congressional Record a document de- scribed as 'unspeaSably vile"
 Before he got up to speak in his own behalf. it was the view of republicans and democrats alike that action upon the resolution to expel him would depend upon his own attitude. He sat with folded hands as Representative Mondell, the republican 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 hosrse and broken. he toucled rapidly upon the charges, and then his old-time fighting fire returned. Right at the beginning he said he knew the house was prepared 10 expel him.
 When rap of the Eavel sounded the end Of the hour allotted him under the rules. he stopped suddenly in the midst of sentence and turning sharply upon his heels was half way out when a re- quest was made from the democratic side i. that he have thirty additional minutes.
 and was opposed by MondeIl. But the q leader was quick to withdraw his ohjec. . ton and the Texan was summoned back. n Refusing at first to yield for questions, !. he permitted Representative Longworth
 10 ask him something, and republicans
 asserted tonight that the reply had turn e ed the tide against him. The Ohio mem- e Der wanted to know if the report was n true that Mir. Bianton had declared an $ intention to r1ail 25D .00o copies of the e undelivered speech. with its offending af.
 idavit after the house had ordered Il
 stricken from the record.
 - Only lack of money he said, pre- e vented its mailing to every voting man ir r. the United States.
 ,f Instantly half a dozen republican,
 were on their feet. trying to break in
 Representative Bl; on had reiterate, g that the publication had been sent ou n in a just csuse.' that no law had bee IS violated. Dramatically he pleaded wit le the house. for the sake of his wife an Id children. to put back into the Record hi
 own undelivered speech. in which he de
 clared there was not one word calculate ic to give offense. But republicans objected g. As the fire of questions started Ml te Blanton abruptly closed his speech, wit m twenty minutes still due him, and sht ,d out of the house.
 The vote to oust him. POS to 11s. wit
 Summers of Texas, an old political riva m voting present" upset the calculations q, i, somedemocrats and republicans wf .a earlier in the day had predicted that tf
 republican leader was waging a losin IT. fight.
 A substitute resolution, offered by Rel
 resentative Garrett of Tennessee. Il
 democratic leader. censurng the Texs as for printing Language so indecent. ol ns scene, vulgar and vile" as to render Il IT. Record unmsilable, and directing Il I'll speaker to "reprimand and censure hin
 a the bar of the h ouse. was thrown o-
 on point of order prior to the vote ( rk expulsion.
 ge But when the repuSlican leader 10 50 his fight to oust the Texan, the dem by cratic leader. getting the master har n- over procedure, called up his resoiuti,
 for immediate vote. As the names we
 called there was a shout of Ayes hs of the members going out as they answere 'r- The poll showed 2sS to 0, with 26 votir ar present"
 gre As the word was passed along that N
 Blanton would be immediately haled. b
 fore the bar of the house, membe est streamed back into the chamber IT lc- sergeant-at-arms had been directed VII bring the Texan in. is- As the main door facing the speaker
 desk swung open and Joseph G. Rodgt
 holding Mir. Blanton by the arm. walk Int down to the front half dozen membe m- on the republican side began hissing. b tb- the demonstration ended almost as quic ac- ly as it had begun. Representati
 Blanton stood alone, one hand in I
 pocket, as Speaker Gi'lett delivered | th reprimand. As the speaker conclude ,- MT. Blanton went out side door ,rs shoulders dropping a bit. Nervously es took out his watch and had just reach ir the door leading to the republican lea
 CTS room when he fell.
 An hour later, however he was at
 office, without collar or coat. as
 
 DA His wife was with him. Mir. Blant
 said he did not remember through whi of door he had left the house chamber, ys In censuring Representative Blantt 'ol- Speaker Gillett said:
 ous MT. Blanton, by a unanimous vote iii- the house, the ayes 2s5 and the ma cen none, l have been directed to censure V Off, because when you had been allowed ice the courtesy of the house to print at speech which you did not deliver up
 the floor, you inserted in 1t foul and ( gh- scene matter which you knew you co, to- not have delivered on the floor and tf md disgusting matter which could not hs dee been circulated through the mail in a
 other paper without crime was tral in mitted to thousands of homes and lib- -ict ries throughout the country to be re rus by mon and women, and worst of all ped childree whose prurient curiosity wo,
 be excited by it. Because of that T hs five been directed to pronounce and I here hat pronounce upon you the censure7 of on house."
 .. Thirty republicans ystsd agsiha ,