DRAMATIC SCENE
IN AMERICAN CONGRESS v (By: Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Oct. 27. .'.Tim New York Tunes Washington correspondent states that, a dramatic see no occurred in tho House of Representatives when it, by a , majority of 203 to 113 rejected a resolution to expel Representative Blanton, but by 003. to nothing • adopted.a resolution censuring him for placing obscene and indecent matters into tho Congressional 'record in ino.. official- Hansard. The Speaker called Blanton before him ami solemnly voiced the censure. Blanton fainted, recovered, and with tearS in Ids eyes, left the. Chamber-., The galleries were crowded, when Blanton spoke- for an hour and a-half in Ids' own defence, the audience sometimes hissing. He asserted tjhat ho would like to send copies of the ecu-, Mired matter to every man and woman in his State.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 29 October 1921, Page 5
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