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...representing any client, not only before any department of the Government (already illegal), but also in any court case in which the Government is interested; 2) any Congressman acting as attorney or counsel for any person or corporation engaged in interstate commerce could be punished by two years in prison and $10,000 fine...
Some of the best mules of the Arkansas State prison farm near Tucker are dead and there is no money to buy more. Last week Superintendent Arthur Grenade Stedman was faced with a problem: how to get the prison farm's cotton patch seeded? For each dead mule, he harnessed six strapping convicts to a cotton planter. When five other machines had likewise been hitched with prison labor, he sent them forth to inseminate the good earth of Arkansas...
...Prison-made products shall not be sold below the prices of non-prison-made goods in the same region...
...Prison-labor shall not be let out by States on contract at lower "wages" per unit of output than the wages of free labor...
...board of nine, three appointed by the President and six elected annually by the States, will have power to regulate prices, determine costs and forbid the expansion of prison industries that might upset competing businesses...