The House of Representatives passes many a tidbit of a bill because no member arouses himself to say "I object." But one noon last week the House assembled in anything but a "unanimous consent" mood.
First Farmer Laborite Francis Henry Shoemaker from Red Wing, Minn. rose to a question of personal privilege. He declared that every day the "members of the House, including the President of the U. S. are being exposed to a dangerous social disease because the laundry for the House is done by convicts suffering from syphilis." He was promptly shushed...
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