Every couple of years, an intrepid Capitol reporter finds themselves down in the subbasement of said building and rediscovers the marble tubs that have been there for some 150 years. They are indeed a relic of an earlier era, from a time when congressmen used the Capitol not only for working, but fighting, smoking, chewing […]

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I have previously written about how the Capitol was used (and abused) for private enterprise. However, discovering that an entrepreneur had set up shop in the sub-basement to give Congressmembers (and others) vapor baths surprised me a bit. Boyd Reilly was born in the early 1780s in Ireland. He came to the United States as […]