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listened to him. Even our able and aggressive speaker was unable to maintain order. Nobody came to hear him and nobody listened. They came here to vote in response to 25,000 lobbying telegrams, without stopping to consider the merits of the issue at all, not telegrams from unbiased individuals, not telegrams from patients, and not a single telegram out of the 25,000 came from anyone who had been cured from cancer or heart diseases. All of them from institutions and organizations and their memberships who will profit from extra money provided in the Senate amendment.” This is absolute nonsense. The organizations that had sent them were voluntary agencies that didn't get a cent of money.

“The exceptional attendance on the floor today is in response to the most prodigious lobbying stunt ever pulled off here in the House within my recollection. It is easy to see the tenor of the House. I have been here before. I know what is coming. My distinguished and eloquent friend, the gentleman from Rhode Island, is going to rise and plead with us not to die. Don't die. Don't have cancer. Don't have heart disease. Vote and be saved. This extra money will wipe out all tears. It is as simple as that. How can you appear to reason in an atmosphere like that.

“Mr. Speaker, in the early days when the first railroad was built across the country, the was frequently interfered with by great herds of buffalo across the track and brought the locomotive to a stop. On one occasion, as the train moved along, the buffalo bull stood at the center of the track