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Colonel Mitchell's attorneys will be Colonel Herbert A. White, Judge Advocate of the Eighth Corps Area (Texas), where Colonel Mitchell is stationed, and Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois. The prosecuting attorneys are three: Colonel Blanton Winship, Colonel Sherman Moreland, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph McMullen...
...Government clerks must accept the definite religion of Christianity. That would be a violation of the first article of the Constitution. As I am a true atheist, I could not conscientiously sign an oath containing those words, for that would have demanded that I lie." Said Congressman Thomas L. Blanton of Texas...
...going to violate the rules now, and I hope the Speaker will not call me to order, when I ask you to give three cheers for Jack Garner.* I like you ill, and I like Blanton."* They cheered. So the 68th Congress closed its last session. In three months it had accomplished chiefly...
...Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas, wordy Congressman from Abilene, sometimes spoken of as the "most troublesome man in the House." He had the record, in the last Congress, for making points of no quorum (forcing roll calls, which in the House, with 435 members, take nearly ha f an hour each). In all, the House had 309 calls-ISO hours of legislative time...
...back to the House. It was surprising what a large number of members were on the floor-3300. If there had been less than a quorum present, a roll call would have been automatically taken. A few speeches were made, for and against the Senate's amendment. Representative Blanton of Texas tried to force a roll call, but could not muster the required one-fifth of those present to join in the demand. So the Senate's amendment was concurred in without anyone in either House's being embarrassed by having his name set down...