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...President and Secretary Hull had used dark forebodings of crisis again this summer in Europe as arguments for more latitude in the law. But the House took last week's developments in Poland and elsewhere just the other way. Despite strong pleas by Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn ("Is there any immorality in our shipping arms to a little weak country so it can defend itself?"), the House decided not to turn Franklin Roosevelt entirely loose. The Vorys amendment carried again by 214 to 173, the whole bill...
Almost incredible to these voteless tax payers was the very first amendment made in the bill last week by the House. Offered by Missouri's Cochran, boldly supported by Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, overwhelmingly-and anonymously-voted by all present, the amendment specifically exempted all members and employes of Congress from "be District income...
Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn got so mad he accused Republicans, with apparent accuracy, of balking "just because he happens to be Franklin D. Roosevelt." The losing vote was 229-to-139, 49 short of two-thirds. The bill had to go back for rerouting through the Rules Committee...
Again Sam Rayburn leaped to the defense. "What [is a] 'fellow traveler?' " he roared...
...Little short of slander!" roared Sam Rayburn...