Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-28
RUSH DECLARES
RECORD BLANK
LOS ANGELES CONGRESSMAN
A N0NENTITY
SELDOM IN HOUSE AND SELDOM
IN COMMITTEES
Democratic Nominee Shows How Ut-
terIy Valueless for the People
Were Services of Pasadena
Machine Lawmaker


At Redondo last night, before large
audience representing all political
faiths. Jud Rush, the Democratic can
didate for congress in the Seventh dis
trict, provoked tremendous applause.
Mr.. Rush made his answer to the
arguments of the friends of his. OPP
ponent that because man has repre-
sented a district in congress for ten
years he should be sent back for an
other term for the reason that he VIII
be able to do more in Washington than
a man who is 'new on the job"
Mr. Rush went after that argument
like a bull after d red rag. He began
by saving that such consideration
would end in the proposition that a1ter
q man was once elected to congress
he should be kept there for the re-
mainder of his life, because his SER
vices for the people would grow more
valuable year by year.
In Inverse Ratio
Mr.. Rush punctured this proposition
with extracts from the Congressional
Record to show that Mr.. McLachlan
efforts in behalf of the people nave
been growing in an inverse ratio, and
that during the last term which ne
served he did a great deal less for the
people of his district, even in securing
pensions for the old soldiers, than he
did in the previous term, and that this
would apply to every term he has
served, his efforts as well as the re-
suits of his efforts growing beautifully
less all the time.
But later Mr. Rush took up the
statement that has recently been made
In N
consists of the work he does on the
committee on rivers and harbors. NC
Lachlan's friends have said that he
is a worker and not talker.
"Where are the results of his work.
Mr.. Rush pertinently asked. what mas
all of his work amounted to? Is his
work effective, and if so, where is the
effect?"
Mr.. Rush, among other things along
this line, said:
Punctures All Claims
"At Mr.. McLachlan's request his rec
ord has been investigated and the sum
of services is disclosed by the record
during his last four terms can be fairly
indicated by a cipher with the rim
rubbed off.
HE next claimed that his services
had been rendered as lobbyist rather
than a representative. By again re-
sorting to the record we find that his
services as lobbyist were of abso-
lutely no benefit to the people of this
district.
LAS a last resort his apologist, prob
ably inspired by Mr.. McLachlan him
self. asserts that to have rendered ser
vices which the Congressional Record
would disclose he would have to de-
sert the meetings of the committee OF
which he is a member and the i'm
A Ine n II
requires would suffer. Mr.. McLachlan's s
time is taken up daily from to in
the meetings of this committee
Does this person for a moment think
that the intelligent people of this con-
gressional district will believe that the
congressional committees hold daily
meetings during the hours that the
house is in session?
All Members on Communities
every member of the house is on
some committee. and If committees
hold their meetings during the hours
that the house is in session and the
members of the committees attended
such meetings, then there would be no
one to transact business in the house
and the speaker could sit alone in
solemn state and transact the business
of the house.
"In order that the people may un-
derstand the absurdity of this last ex-
cuse l wish to call attention to the
record of the work performed by Theo-
dore E. Burton, chairman of the COM
mittee of which Mr.. McLachlan is an
almost unknown member, as compared
with that performed by Mr.. McLach-
Ian.
During the Fifty-ninth congress,
both sessions, Burton was appointed on
extra committees four times, McLach-
Ian none; Burton was appointed con-
feree three times, McLachlan none;
Burton was appointed teller once, Nc
Lachlan none: Burton offered amend
ments to pending bills four times, Nc
Lachlan none; Burton introduced thir-
teen bills and joint resolutions, other
than private pension bills, McLachlan
five; Burton offered nineteen motions
and joint resolutions, McLachlan none;
Burton presented thirty-two papers
and petitions, McLachlan one; Bur
ton addressed the house 1876 times. Nc
Lachlan once; Burton made reports
from thirty-two committees, McLach-
Ian none.
Compared with Burton
"Thus we see that Mr.. Burton, not
withstanding his duties as chairman
of the rivers and harbors committee,
managed to appear in the house 233
times, while Mr. McLachlan, by at
tending strictly to business and work
ing very hard, managed to appear
seven times.
81 have compared Mr.. McLachlan's
services in the house with those OF
Mr.. Burton for the reason that Burton
was chairman of the committee and
had more committee work to do than
McLachlan, and consequently there
could be no excuse that the compari-
son was unfair to McLacfilan.
"Some people may suspect, after an
investigation of McLachlan's work on
the rivers and harbors committee, that
there is a vacant seat on this COM
mittee as well as in the house."