NOTICE .
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MAIL SCHOONER
MYSTERY
(U.
S. Contract
Mail Packet.)
will be leaving Frederiksted
on Saturday
7th May at 6 o’clock p.
m. punctually
for
St.
Thomas
and San
Juan,
P.
R.
Intending
passengers
should
apply not
later than 4 p..m.
on the previous
day at
the office of
THOS. RAMSAY,
Agent F'rederiksted.
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Voters!
Voters!
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Think,
And
Then
Decide
VOTE STRAIGHT
FOR
THE
FIRST
AND LAST
NAMES ON
THE TICKET.
Do not mind
the
Bluffexs.
Chabert
is
President
of
the
Labor
Union and Granady
is with Chabert.
Alexander
no gocd.
Do
not
be mislead.
Fall in line, be
on time, vote right and
with all your might.
Vote for
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VOTER.
£
PROCEEDINGS
OF
THE
TCOLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
(Continned from yesterday’s
Avis.)
Government
Secretary
(Timmons)
re-
marked:
Mr.
Chairman.
With
regard
to
authority
vested
in
the
President
I
wish
to
remin
the
Honorable
Member
that
the President,
by Executive
Order,
reserves
the right
to
approve
and
set
aside
laws.
With reference
to
the
Mem-
ber’s
proposal
that
the
President
be
vested
with power
to appoint
the judges,
that
would be superfluous,
the
President
has already received
that power from
the
Congress
of the United States.
With
reference
to the
printing
of the
code,
no one regrets
that
more
than I; it
is aimed
at
me and
[ wish
to explain
that
it
is
through
an
ovarsight
the
scetion
was
not
seni.
Uhe
original of the
code
was
sent insiead
of the
copy
passed,
and
this
error
was only lately discovered.
Ist Me nber for Chrisdansted
Country
Disirict
(Stakemann)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
I fully agree
that according
to
inhe VUroganic Act
the
Governoris
au-
thorized
to
appoint
tne
oificials
of
the
Virgin Isiands.
If the bill
had
not
heen
approved
it wouid
be
all
right
to
move
the
secrion
and
the
Council
would
not
have any say;
but it has
been
passed
and
approved
by the
Governor
and
become
law,
therefore
the
President
has,
ST L4l
2
&
¥Vi 5
through him, decided
that
there shall
be
two judges,
and
that cannot
be
changed
unless
by legislative amendment.
If it
had
not
been
made
law, it would
be
a
different thing.
You cannot
make
a law
today
and
have it changed
tomorrow
by
the President;
no!
If that is
so then
the
whole
code
would
be
changed.
If that
section
is taken
out
it might change
the
whole
code.
The
Président
could
have
!
said
he would
not
approve
the law,
but
.
he
cannot
approve
it and
later change
a
part of it.
According
to my legal
know
ledge,
and according
to the nature
of the
.
matter,
thisis
a law that is in existence
-
and
cannot
be changed
in that way.
in
i
order
to have it changed
it must
be acted
~upon
by
the
legislative
body
with
the
~approval
of the President
or the Govern-
~
or.
I
take up the ordinance,
if it be
ve-
~
toed,
then
two judges
will remain.
Government
Secrerary
(Timmons)
ie-
marked:
Mr. Chairman.
Just
one
word.
With
regard
to the Organic Act
and
the
Executive
Order,
the
Act
also
reads:
~
"*With
the
approval
of
the
President
~and %under
such
rules
and
regulaticns
as
~
the
President
may preseribe
ete.””
The
~
interpretation
pu
on that
is clear;
all the
'
legal minds
agree
that,
that
is clear.
He
~
might not find it eonvenient
to take action
~
onalaw forsix months
or pernaps
a vear,
but he has
vested
the
power
in the
Gov-
~ernor.
.
~__lst Member for Christiansted
Countiy
Distriet (Stakemann):
1 believe
the
sec-
tion to which
the Honorable
sovernment
~
has
reference
begins
with '‘Except
as
.
hereinafter
provided
ete.””
Some
words
-
are owmitted.
Government Secretary
(Timinons):
May
+
lask
if
the
Honorable
Member
reters
.
to
the
Organic
Act
or
the
Executive
.
Order?
|
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
'
Distnict
(Stakemann):
The Organic’act.
'§
Government
Secretary
(Timmons)
read
|
the section
referred
to.
Ist Member for
Christiansted
Countvy
.
District
(Stakemann)
remarked:
Mr.
i
Chairman.
The
President
has
already
.
made
use of his
right,
he
has
approved
|
the law, he
has
used
his prorogative,
and
i
after it becomes
law
he
cannot
change
bt
i
Government
Secretary
(iminons;
ve-
|
marked:
Mr. Chairman.
"he
locai
Gov-
|
ernment
maintains
that
the
Goveroor
i
has
the right
o
approve
a
law, after it
.
is done if it is changed
by
the Fresident,
'
the quarrel
is with the Presiden:
and
not
{
with rh= local Government.
|
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
¢
Discrier
(Stakemann):
And
who
knows
!
whether
the
President
has changed
the
\
law?
|
Government
Secietary
(limmons):
'
Again I wish
to say
it
is
law,
and until
|
you hear
otherwise
it is law.
|
Ist Member for
Frederiksted
©ountry
{
District
(Andersen;
remarked:
Mr.
i
Chairman.
lam
sorry
that
I
am
not
-
legally
tcained
as
the
last
speaker,
so
'
thatI could speak
with
authority on this
-
matter,
however
I
wish
to
say
that
I
think that
the people of St. Croix
spoke
strongly
enougn
when
they
spoke at
a
mass
meeting
and cthrough
the
Colonial
Council
a short
time ago
and asked
for
two judges; and
now for the Government
to bring
in
a misprinted
code
with
that
particuiar
section
left out simultaneously
with
a
new proposal for
but one
judge,
makes
me
f{eel that
matters
are
not
car-
ried
on
a fairway towards
us.
This
.is
an
American
Island
now, and
while
we
know
that
the
law
and
the
courts
are
tha
backbone
of
the
Ameri-
can
Constitution
itis
intolerable
for
us
to
go arrund
witn the
feeling
that
our
Courts
are
being
meddled
with.
We
certainly
would
-feel
safer
and
more
satisfied
in this
island it the judges
were
apprinted
by
the
President.
[
recom-
mend
that the Council
vote that
we have
two
judges
ir
the
Virgin lslands,
and
that they
may
be appointad
by the Presi-
dent of the United
States.
4th
Appointed
Member
(Blackwood):
On
the road
the
Couneil
had nothing
to
say,
but
on the law
Members
have
much
to say.
Government
Secretary
(Timmons):
1
wizh
to make it
clear
that
Government
has
no objection
to
the
President
ap-
pointing the Judges
Ist Member
for
Frederiksted
Country
Disiriect
(Andersenj:
1
cannot
under-
stand
tken
why
the
Government
with-
draws
the bill.
.
Government
Secretary
(Timmons):
Simply
because
ot
the
action
that
has
been
made
clear.
Ist Member
oy Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemownn)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairinan.
1
appreciate
the
stand
the
Government
has
taken,
that
is
to
have
the
President
apvoint
the
two
judges.
1
du not
believe
the
President
will, in
this
little matter,
refuse
to
follow
the
views of the people.
The
Naval Depart-
ment
or some
one
in Washington
is prob-
ably
a:
the back
of this matter.
Ido not
believe
that
for
tne
sake of
saving Four
Thousand
Uollars
this
section
of the cede
was
sel aside,
Government
Secretary
(Timmons)
re-
marked:
Mryr.
Chairman.
No
one
will
contend
that
the
President
si.s
up
at
nizht reading
this code;
no one
will con-
terd
that
be.
has
never
seen
it or
will
evaer
see
it.
5
Ist Member
for
Frederikstzd
Country
District
{(Andersen):
Mr. Chairman.
If
it
is
not
nappropriate
1
would
like
to
have
the
Government
Secretary,
reveai
wanat
he
knows
about
t_is
matter
and
what he thinks
about
it.
N 0 one requesting
the
word turther
it
was
pur
ro the
vote
and carried
that
the
hilt
be
turthered.
First
Discussion
re--
mained
opea.
‘t'ne
Chairman
then gavea
recess
of
20 minntes.
LOCAL.
The
nomination
of candidates
for the
general
election
of
representatives
of
the
Christiansted
country
district
to