OBSCENITY IN CONGRESS.
TEXAN MEMBER CENSURED. UJIANIMOUS VOTE OF HOUSE. (Receive;! 5.?,0 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 27. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that a dramatic scene occurred in the House ol Representatives, when by a vote of 203 to 113, it rejected a resolution to expel Mr. G. L. Blanton (Democrat member for Abilene, Texas), but by 293 to none adopted a resolution censuring him for placing obscene and indecent matters into the congressional record of the ollicial "Hansard." The Speaker called Mr. Blanton before him, and solemnly voiced the censure. Mr. Blanton fainted, but recovered, and with tears in his eves hit the chamber. The galleries were crowd.il. Mr. Blanton spoke for an hour and a-half in his own defence, the audience sometimes hissing him. A spirit of braggadocio impelled him to assert that he would like to send copies of the censured matter to every man and woman in his State.—(A. anil N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 258, 29 October 1921, Page 7
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