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Thomas Taggart of Indiana made history for 46 years while he was on earth as a business man. a financier, hotel proprietor, an owner of newspapers, a maker of governors and senators and as a leader of his fellows. He was bom in Ireland. He came to America when a little lad. His first job was that of a waiter. His second Job was that of owner of a cafe where he had served as a waiter. Twenty years later he was a millionaire. First he was the leader of the Indianapolis democracy. Then he became the leader of the Indiana democracy. Then he became one of the famous democratic tri umvirate—Roger Sullivan of Illinois, Charles S. Mur phy of New York and Thomas S. Taggart of Indiana. He made governors and senators. He made Thom as R. Marshall vice president of the United States. He joined hands with Sullivan and Murphy to throw William Jennings Bryan in the ditch at Baltimore and make Woodrow Wilson the democratic standard bearer. After the passing of Wilson Taggart lost control. During war-time a hundred thousand negro voters from the south found jobs and homes under Hoosier skies. These southern blacks voted the republican ticket. They made Indiana a republican Gibraltar. Taggart lost his health. He lost his fighting spirit. * He lost his grip upon the rank and file of Indiana voters. He fought his last great battle with the King of Terrors and the king won. The King always wins. There are no great democrats nowr on the banks of the Wabash. They are in the graveyard. Taggart was the last to go. Black battalions from the south ern states made Indiana as solidly republican as the state of Vermont, and the steel kings who owm Gary and other industrial towns in the Hoosier state see to it that there are no breaks in the political line when important elections take place. Legislative Power of the State A committee of 15 were created by the Fortieth legislature to be known as the tax survey commission. Three members of the senate were appointed by the president of that body; four members of the house were appointed by the speaker, and eight “public spirited and capable persons who are private citizens ’ were appointed by the governor. According to the act creating the committee the members were to receive as compensation the sum of $10 per day for each clay they actually served, to gether with railroad fare, hotel, telegraph, telephone, postage and express expenses incurred in th dis charge of their duty. A sum of $25,000 was appro priated to defray the compensation and expenses of the committee. Representative A. H. King of Throckmorton de clared the act was in violation of the constitution of the state. He invaded the court. Finally certified questions from the court of civil appeals were passed on to the supreme court of Texas . It was a knock out for the lawmaker members of the committee, when this tribunal answered. It was declared that they could not take down $10 per day for their serv ices as the constitution decreed that $5 was the pay of a legislator. As for the private citizen members of the committee they were all to the good. Each member received $10 per day and all expenss incurrd while in actual service of the state. As to the consti tutional provision the high court decision reads: “The legislature is forbidden to provide any greater compensation for the services of the members of the legislature than the stated per diem and mileage.” Dillon on municipal corporations was quotd by the learned members of the supreme court as follows: “It is a well settled rule that a person accepting a public office with a fixed salary is bound to perform the duties of the office for the salary. He cannot legally claim additional compensation for the dis charge of these duties, even though the salary may be a very inadequate remuneration for the services. Neither can he recover extra compensation for inci dental or collateral services which properly belong to, or form a part cf the main office. An express con tract to pay such extra compensation or an express allowance of it is void.” This is the law of the commonwealth according to the high court decree: “the trial court erred in its holding to the effect that the resolution was uncon stitutional and void in so far as it directed the pay ment of money out of the legislature contingent ex pense found for the expenses of the legislative mem bers of the committee: but the trial court did not err in the judgment to the effect that the resolution was unconstitutional and void in so far as it directed the payment of money out of said fund for compensa tion to the legislative members of th ecommittee. The trial court did not err in the holding to the effect that the resolution was valid in so far as it directed the payment of money out of the legislature’s con tinued expense fund for compensation and expenses of the members of the committee who were not mem bers of the legislature.” Former Gov. Oscar B. Colquitt is chairman of the tax survey commission. He is a lawyer. Senator A. E. Woods and A. J. Wirtz and Edgar E. Witt are members of the commission. These gentlemen are lawyers. There Is a former senator fa prominent lawyer) “a private citizen appointed by the gover nor.” Judges of the court of last resort interpreted the constitution for the lawyers and the lay members of the tax survey bureau or commission. A report will be submitted to the special session of the legisla ture of the activities of the tax survey. It will be thrashed out by lawyers who are lawmakers and law makers who are laymen at the coming special ses sion in the month of April. You can’t blame the Chicago police. Just when they are ready to arrest “Scarface Al.” Mr. Capone says he doesn’t think he wants to be arrested.—Day tona Daily New*, a t SPRING AND UNPREPAREDNESS This is spring And I would now Chirp and sing— If I knew how. I Squirrels fly From limb to limb— So would I If I’d the vim. Robins chant With mocking boids; But I can’t— I’ve adenoids! Lambkins gam Bol all around; Me? Oh, dam! I’m muscle-bound. Lovers sigh ’Neath trees and hold Hands but I Would catch a cold. Comes the zeal For romance ripe— But I feel I’m not the type Lovers dream And get their wish— But I seem To lack ambish. Birdies woo All day from dawn; All I do Is sit and yawn. I would flit With bees and hum But my flit Ter’s on the bum. Comes the mood For life intense: Lassitude Is what prevents. Mossy mere I yearn to tramp But I hear It’s pretty damp. I would climb O'er dale and hill— Gee, but I’m The Great Big Sill! * * * * MR. COOLIDGE IN NEW YORK There was a young man who was sicker Of spotlight and flashlight and flicker Than anyone knew And when asked “How are you?” The silence grew thicker and thicker. * * * * Suggestion for a name for the Mt. Weather Sum mer White House: The Manse to Which Nobody Goes. VERNAL FEVER Now I recline and the world is mine Absorbing the errant 6un. As I sense its stir, some old loves recur As I fondle them one by one. I wander back on a misty track To places where old dreams lurk. And I'd think it great to emancipate Myself from the world of work. __ _ —Harcourt Strange. By HERBERT C. PLUMMER WASHINGTON, March 28.—The lowly ham om elet may take first place among the breakfast dishes in the land during the next four years. It is one of the favorite foods of President Herbert Hoover. So says Mrs. Mary E. Rattley, and she should be in a position to know. For eight years she presided over the culinary regions of the Hoover home in Washington. And while she did not follow the Hoo vers to the White House as she had hoped, neverthe less she did advise the kitchen force at the executive mansion what the president does and does not like in the way of food, and how he wants it prepared. For, she Is happy to state, Mr. Hoover never once complained of her cooking in the eight years of her service at the S street home. Only once in that time did he make a request, and then he asked to have his eggs cooked a little harder. Presidential Recipe Ham omelet a la Hoover, as prepared by Mrs. Rattley, is as follows: “Take six eggs and beat them all together. You need not salt, for the ham does that. Add three ta blespoons of cream and cook slowly in a well buttered pan. When cooked on the bottom, put under toaster flame about three minutes. Then lay the ground ham already heated in a line across the omelet’s diameter, and roll up without too much handling, as you would a jelly roll. Surround it with a tasteful fringe of the remaining ham. “You must be artistic about laying the ham in and rolling the omelet,” she warns. On Sunday mornings President Hoover likes sau sage and scrambled eggs and fried hominy. “I was always very particular about the hominy,” Mrs. Rattley continued. “I would insist on whole grains, washed and drained and rolled in cream and sprinkled with a little flour and browned in butter.” The president is fond of many other things. In fact. Mrs. Rattley says he likes everything that is good and good for him. Berries with cream, vanilla ice cream and watermelon appeal to his taste. And pie of any kind. Cold sliced lamb surrounded by parsley with jelly In the center is a luncheon dish that finds favor with him. Cooked For Lindy At the first Mrs. Rattley thought she couldn't give any of Hoover’s pet dishes, for she is not like many other cooks. She does not say three teaspoons of this or a cup of that. When we suggested that perhaps she cooked intuitionally, she was quick with the reply: “No. scientifically. I have studied It all my life and I love to cook.” Her chief assistant is her son. Her living quar ters at the Hoover mansion were next to her kitchen, for like other famed good and happy cooks she is a little too much to carry upstairs. She says that she has been photographed by news cameramen In every way but standing on her head. Next to her pride in having pleased the president with her cooking, she is happiest over the fact that she once prepared a meal for Col. Charles Lindbergh. /. j Believe It or Not By Ripley j The. water. NEAREST AN ICEBERG . IS THE WARMEST. / I mm m C.C. NAPIER* o| Hudson, Wis. has work the 6AME PAIR OF arctic overshoe: For. £6 consecutive Winters WlLUAM SHAKESPEARE WA5 BORN os APRIL 23 AND DIED ON APRIL 23 (.52 yews laler) A Turtle V/L1GH1NG 1,350 POUNDS k-ft-S by A WILT^E c>Te