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REP. BLANTON, TEX,
FA|NTS FOLLOWING.
CENSURE BY HOUSE.
COLLEAGUES FAILING TO EXPet.
HIM FROM REPRESENTATIVES,
BODY, ORDER CONGRESSMAN
PU LlcLY REBUKED FOR
PRINTING UNPRINTABLE" m
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

Washington, oct 2S.- Saved from
being thrown out of the house Of rep.
rcsentatiyes by bare margin Of eight
votes, Thomas h. Blantop, Texas Dem.
ocrat, was publicly reprimanded last
night by Speaker Gillett, in accord
ance with a resolution of censure.
Then, moment later rs he walked
out Of the chamber with all eyes upon
him, he toppled over In q heap. Some
of his colleagues who had voted t.
expel him picked him up and placed
him on lounge. But he did not stay
there long. Rousing himself n
Gown his checks, and MS he went away
he was heard to express the hope that
he might never see the house again
There was no doubt of the fact, as
mombers expressed it, that the Texan
was utterly crushed and worn by his
experience of the day, an experience
that seldom comes during the life Of
Il man in congress. Flo ran hour and
ten minutes. with hostile eyes upon
him, he fought to defend himself from
the charge that he had transgressed
the law by putting into the Congress.
sional Record a document described as
'unspeakably vile"
Before he got up to speak in his
own behalf, it was the view of Rppub
licans and Democrats alike that action
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would depend upon his own attitude
He sat with folded hands as Repre-.
sentative Mondcll Of Wyoming, the
Republican leader, pleaded earnestly
to have him cast out And then, pale
and smiling, he stepped briskly to tn
front as the leader sat down.
His voice was hoarse ana 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 eXpel him.
When a rap of the gavel sounded |
the end Of the hour allotted him, he
stopped suddenly in the midst OF |
sentence, and, turning sharply upon |
his heels. was half way out when a |
request was made from the Demo |
cratic side that he have thirty add !
tional minutes, and was opposed By |
Mondell But the leader was quick to
Withdraw his objection, and the Texan |
was sunmuned back, 4
Refusing at first to yield for quea.
tions, he permitted Representative
I.ongworth Republican, Ohio, to ASK
him something, and Republicans as
serted last night that the reply had
turned the tide against him. The |
Ohio member wanted to know II th >
report was true that Mr.. Blanton had |
announced intention to mail 250D0o |
copies of the undeliyered speech, with
it's offending affidavit. after the house
had ordered it stricken from the rec
ord,
Only lack of money, he said, pre-
vented its mailing to every voting
man in the United States.
Instantly half a dozen representa-
tiyes were on their feet, trying &c
break in.
Representative Blanton had reiter
atcd that the publication had been
sent out, "in just cause" that no
law had been violated. Dramatically
he pleaded with the house, for the
sake of his wife and children, to put
back into the record his own undo
livered speech, in which he said there
was not one word calculated to give
offense But Republicans objected,
AS the fire of questions started Mr.
Blanton abruptly closed his speech,
with twenty minutes still due him, ANA
shot out OF the house.
The vote to Gust him, 203 to ll3,
with Summers of Texas, an old pOlit |.
ical rival, voting present" upset the
calculations of some Democrats and
Republicans, who earlier in the day
had predicted the Republican leader
was waging a losing fight. They
agreed that the leader, like a man
stalking all on the turn of card, was
determined Representative Blanton