Confunction and Logrolling

noun

• Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects.
• Rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport.
  • synonyms: birling

verb

• Work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes.
  • synonyms: logroll

• (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
• (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.