Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-23
M'LACHLAN'S
RECORD POOR
RUSH PUNCTURES CLAIMS OF
OPPONENT
ASLEEP AT SWITCH DURING HAR-
BoR LEGISLATION
Commercial Bodies Obliged to Keep
Paid Representative at WASH
ington to Watch Their
Interests

interests
Jud Rush, Democratic nominee for
congress- in the Seventh district, added
a few more chapters last night IN ms
talk at Gardena to the weak spots IN
the career of his opponent, James NC
Mr.. Rush is merely taking up the
gauntlet thrown down by MI MI
Lachlan who asked that THESE spo'9
be pointed out to him.
..Mr. McLachlan has made his record
as a member of congress an issue III
this campaign" said Mr.. Rush, ana
asserted, among other things, that ne
has obtained for this district appro-
priations aggregating four mllilols VI
dollars for San Pedro harpor'
..It is strange that the Congresslon-
al Record does not contain any ac-
counts of his efforts in this matter
"Surely no one would reflect on the
memory of Stephen NJ. White, OF chai-
lenge the intelligence of the people
of This great district by asserting or
maintaining that James McLachlan
was in any way responsible Tor 90.
tanning the appropriation of $2,9OO,OOO
for the outer harbor, or that ne rem
dered any mtaerial assistance to the
success of that project.
Not McLachlan's Work
"since that time the river and har-
bor appropriations bill has appro-
priated small sums from time TO time
10 be expended annually in the I'M
proyement of the inner harbor' put
so far as the record shows MI NC
TachIan had no more to do with OBJ
tanning these appropriations than any
other member of the house of repre-
sentativeS
ssDuring the second session of the
bSth congress Senator Bard introduced
and the United States senate passed,
on February 8, 1904, as an item in
the urgency deficiency bill, an
amendment appropriating $19,7OO in ad-
dition to the sum already Appropriated
for the purpose of purchasing addl-
tional land for a public building III
Los Angeles
'The matter went to the house and
Mr.. McLachlan, in great speech oc-
cupying almost three minutes, ana
consisting of 269 words, urged the
house to pass this appropriation; put
Immediately upon the completion OF
his argument the house voted 1t down,
and all that Senator Bard had gained
in the senate was lost in the house
Cut Down Appropriation
"On March Is, 1904, Senator Bard
asked and obtained unanimous con-
sent for the consideration of a Dill
in the OnlIeu CldlGo SCioNC NPP-
priating 225,00O to purchase addl-
tionai property for the erection of
public building in Los Angeles CITY,
which bill was passed by the senate
Ion April Is, 1904, Mr.. McLachlan
asked unanimous consent for the con-
sideration of this same Dill III Tue
house. and offered an amendment re
dueing the appropriation from $22o,-
600 to S175, 900, in which form it passed
the house. In order to reduce TINS
appropriation $4,000 and secure the
passage of this bill in that form, Mr..
McLachlan used seventy-four words.
''How much more the Appropriation
would have been reduced if he had
spoken for five minutes no one knows.
During the last session of congress
Senator Flint introduced and there
was passed by the senate joint reso-
luton defining certain harbor lines IN
the inner harbor
"This resolution was prepared in
the war department and faVorably and
unanimously reported from committee,
and Mr.. McLachlan obtained unanl-
NOUS consent of the house for the I'M
mediate passage of that resolution, eV-
eryone favoring it. On this occasion
he delivered another fearful speech,
of thirty-five words.
Rest in Committees
81 have searched the Congressional
Record carefully, but l have been ut
terly unable to find a single instance
in which bill introduced by Mr.. Nc
Lachlan affecting our harbor inter
ests, or concerning any public i'm
provement, ever passed the house,
much less became a law. They were
invariably referred to appropriate
committees, where they still rest, un-
disturbed.
"I find that every measure appro-
priating money for public improve
ments i'll this district has first been
introduced in the senate and passed
by the senate, and the contest, If any
made, has been in the senate, after
which some of them have passed the
house by unanimous consent, and 9TH
ers been killed in the house.
son the 21st of last February tels-
gram from q private source in Wash
ington reached the chamber of COM
merce of Los Angeles city notifying
1t that q resolution was pending in the
senate which provided for the estab-
lishment Of the harbor lines OF the
inner harbor.
San Pedro BungIing
"rhe chambers Of commerce of the
cities of Los Angeles, Wilmington,
San Pedro ana Long Beach had re-
quested the passage of such a resolu-
tion, and very much desired these
lines to be established in order that
the intended development of large en-
terprises might proceed at once.
Through some mistake or mishap
this resolution contained a provision
to the effect t4at these lines We're not
to be established until they had met
with the approval of the claimants of
tine tidelands at San Pedro: in other
words, until they met with the ap-
proVal of the transportation monopoly
which controlled the inner harbor in
San Pedro.
From February 1lth to February
21st, ten days this joint resolution,
printed in the Record and containing
this pernicious clause, had been laid
on Mr. McLachlans desk in the house
of representatives. every morning, and
either he never read it to see what
it was or else wished to have it passed
and become a law, bad as it was.
Constituents Get Busy
1.-THE chamber OF commerce of Los
Angeles, ever watchful of the peoples
interest, and with its characteristic
energy, Immediately went to work to
have this resolution amended by leav-
ing out this Objectionable clause; but
it does not appear that Mr.. McLachlan
was called upon to help in this good
work; on the contrary, a congressman
from one of the far eastern states,
who was in Washington, was asked to
attend to the matter, and did what
fn ho fo o17r CT