A selection of the letter, which relates what Levi Huber, the corrector of revises, said to the employee: G__d D___n your black heart, you ought to have it torn out of you, you u____ s_____ of a b_____.

[3] Robert D. Stevens of the University of Hawaii at Manoa wrote in a 1982 article that the offending remarks "were not all that offensive by today's standards," and only took up half a column of the Record, and furthermore contained only 32 "obscene" words, which were already censored in the form of removing most of the letters and replacing them with underscores.

[3] A motion to expel Blanton failed by only eight votes, and he was unanimously censured by the House of Representatives on October 27, 1921, for "abuse of leave to print.

"[1] Mondell, the author of the expulsion resolution, claimed on the floor of the House of Representatives that "There is not a member who will not say that it is the vilest thing he has ever seen in print", and that "Any one speaking the words contained in the Congressional Record would be subject to fine and imprisonment under the laws of the land."

Blanton was subsequently elected on May 20, 1930, to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his House successor, Robert Q. Lee, who died little more than a year after taking office.