M.
Skeo:h
received5
votes,
D. Noll 4
votes,
K. Coulter 2
votes and F.
Ander-
ser and
Mr. Latimer received
1 vote
re-
spectively.
As
there
was
not
a
majcrity
vote for
a member
for Christiansted
Country
Dis-
trict a new voting had
to take place.
14 voting tickets
were
handed
in.
Elected
was:
R.
W.
Skeoch
with
11
votes.
F. Lunney received
2 votes
and
Mr. A.
V. Nelthropp received
1 vote.
The Chairman
asked
Members
to
pre-
pare
their voting tickets
for 7
membe:s
on the budget
committee.
12 voting tickets
were
handed
in.
Elected
were:
A. E. Stakemann
with
12
votes,
F. Andersen,
D. C.
Canegata
aad
Robt.
L. Merwin with
11 votes
re-
spectively
D. Noll
and
A.
J
Blackwood
with
8 votes
respectively.
G.
B. fleming
and
D.
S.
Armstrong
received
6 votes
respectively,
F. Cqplter
4 votes,
K.
Henderson
3
votes
and
F.
Lunney
and
Thos
Ramsay
with
1 vote
respectively.
As there
was
a tie
vote between
Mem-
bers Armstrong and
Fleming
a
new
vote
had to take
piace.
12 voting tickets
were handed
in.
Elected
was:
D. S. Armstrong
with 6
votes.
G. B. Fleming received
5
votes
and
R
W.
Skeoch
1 vote.
The
Chairman
remarked:
Hcnorable
Members
as
this
is
the
last
ordinary
meeting
of
the
Counecil
for this sessinon
I have
to
anncunce
that
the
following
members
will automatically
retire:
2nd Appointed Member
Noll.
-
4th Appointed
Member
Blackwood.
For Christians‘ed
Town:
Ist Member Wm.
S.
Abramson.
3rd Member
Wm.
L. Pentheny.
For Christiansted
Country Distriet:
3rd Member
Robt.
W.
Skeoch.
,
4th Member
Thos.
Ramsay.
For Frederiksted
Town:
2nd Member Robt.
L.
Merwin.
For Frederiksted
Country District:
9nd Member
M. M. Skeoch.
3rd Member
G. Nordby.
“he
Chairman
rlemarked:
Being
the
last meeting
of the
Council
for
the elec-
tive period, and at the
same
time;
as
you
ali know,
His
Exceliency
the
Governor
is leaving us.
On
behalf
of
the Council
I
wish
to
say
to
Governor
Oman
that
we
appreciate
the
time
he
has
been
with
us,
and
hope
that
he
will carry
with
him
the
feeling
that
the
Council
has
been
in
sympathy
with
him.
We
have
had
idifferences,
but
very
littie
Governor
Oman
I wish
you
a
very pleas-
ant trip; your work here
on these
Islands
will
be greatly remembered,
andI hope
to have the pleasure
of seeing
you again.
We thank
you for the
decoration
of
the
Council Hall; that will
be
a memento
for
the future.
I again
thank
you and wish
you a very happy
and pleasant
trip.
Governuor
Oman’s
reply:
Mr.
Chair
man
and
Honorable
Members
1 cannot
87
CRBLX
ANI
S
tell
you
how
deeply
I appreciate
your
words
of friendship.
[ assure
you
that
whatever
differences
there
have
been
be-
tween
the
Government
and the
Council
has
been
.a
misunderstanding.
I
am
very
glad
to
see
the
Council
Chamber
finished
before
I leave.
|
One
matter I would like to speak
about
|
—Some
Members
are under
the
wrong
|
impression
as
to why I have
not lived
in
|
this
Island
part
of
the
time.
I
have
|
reason
to believe
that
some
members
are
'
under
the
impression
thatI was
influ-
enced
by some smember
of my
staff.
1
}
wish
to say
the decision
I came
to for not
coming
to
live there
was
not
influenced
‘
by
any member of my staff or
of any of
|
the
Government
officials.
I learned
to-
day
that
some
members
think it is \from
‘
the
influence
of the
Government
Secre-
i
tary
who
I have
here
with
me
today.
|
Two
or three
months
ago
I
came
here
and inspected
this
building, and
U
think
you’ll
agree
with
me
that
o
spend
fifteen
or
twenty
thousand
dollars
|
would
not
make
the
building
satis-
‘
factory
to live in.
I remember
Member
|
Anderser.
made
the remark—"'lf
twenty
|
thousan?
dollars
were spent
it would
not
|
make
the ‘buildirg satisfactory
to
live
‘
in.””
So
long
as
a
Naval
Governor
is
|
over
here
I
doubt
whether
he
would
!
deem
it feasiole
to live
here.
When
you
|
have
a civil
Government
you
may
have
|
a
man
that
may
spend
some
time
here
|
and
some
time
in
St. Thomas.
Any one
|
who has
been
living in St.
Thomas
would
|
know
that
you
have
better
roads
heie.
|
1 teel
that lam
driving in
France
when
|
I
drive
through
your
roads.
I
assure
|
you that lam taking back
many
pleasant
|
recollections
of this island,
so
we can
say
|
good-bye
in the best
of feelings,
|
The
meeting closed
at 6.15
p.
m.
i
|
LOCAL.
o
Th>
Lion
Man,
that
stirring
serial
;
which
has
held such
wide popularity
ever
|
since
its
first
presentation,
was
again
|
the
attraction
of
a
full
house
at
the
|
Christiansted
Theatre
last nighr.
:
The
s.
s.
Lake Fackler
after
discharg-
|
ing her cargo
for
Christiansted.
includ-
ing yet another
car,
sailed for the
south-
ern ports
Sanday
morning
taking
mails
|
for several
of the islands.
TELEGR
s MS.
i
ST. CROIX STATION.
‘
London, May sth.-The
necessity
of mak-
|
ing Germany
disarm
was
placed
first
in
|
importance
by Mr. Lloyd George in announ-
cing
in
the
House
of
Commons
today
the result
of
the
Supreme
Council’s
de-
liberations
on the
reparations
and other
|
questions
at issue
with
Germany.
Ger-
|
many’s default in her
disarmament
obli-
|
gations
were
placed
first
by
the
Pre-
|
mier,
he said,
because
whiie
there
was
|
any
possibility
of
the
re-appearance
of
Great
armaments,
there
was
no
guar-
antee
of
the
freedom
and
peace
of
Europe.
Although
any
sudden
organi-
zation of the force
powerful
enough
to
attack
France
or Belgium
was
impossi-
ble,
he said, yet while
there
existed
re-
gular military organizations
in
Germany
which
collectively
might
become
the
nucleus of a
formidable army,
was
im-
posible
for
France
to
settledown.
She
must
continue
to
arm
and
wateh
her
eastern
frontier.
As regards
reparation
said the Prime
Minister,
the Allies were
compelled
‘o
act
not
merely
because
Germany
had
defaulted,
but
owing
to
Germany’s
general
attitude showing
she
had
no intention of performing
her
obli-
gations.
Mr. Lloyd George
argued
that
the plan
the Supreme
Council had
adopt-
ed
was
fair
and
workable.
The
Alljes
had taken
account
of
all
of Germany’s
difficulties,
economical
and
politiecal,
he
said,
and
also
her
capagity
to
pay.
It
was
useless
4eipg
impatient
with
the
attitude
of
France,
the
Pre-
mier
declarel,
because
France
was
a
victim of the
war and
entitled
to
repar-
ations.
There
was
no interest
for France
which
was
not
also
the
interest
of
the
whole
world
to
secure
peace
and
set-
tlement,
he
said,
and
for
that
reason
the treaty
must
be respected
as
the real
basis
of
German
offer.
Mr.
Lloyd
George
then
entered
into
elaborate
de-
tails,
describing
the
plan
adopted
re-
ferring to reconstruction
in
France,
Mr.
Lloyd
George
said
the
Germans
might
provide
Labour,
but
that
offered
diffi-
culties,
as
there
were
trade
unions
in
France
as
well
as
here.
The
process
of reconstruction,
he
asserted,
was
like-
ly
to
occupy
from
five
to*ten
years.
Remarking
on
the
fairness
of
the
de-
mands,
the Prime
Minister
said he
was
anxious
to deal
fairly
by
Germany
and
the German
leaders,
because
their
task
wag
pot
an
easy
one,
and
they
had to
face public opinion
in
Germany.
‘I am
not talking
the
language
of menace’’,
Mr. Lloyd
George
said’’.,
hut
of
prac-
tical
common
sense
when
[
say
it
was
a good
thing
for the
German
people
to
be
brough
up sharply
agzinst
a
worse
alternative
if they
refuse
tLhe
present
terms.
‘There
was
no
mistaking
the
United
Srates
arttitude
toward
Gor-
many’s
!ast
proposal,
and
it
must
be
clear
to
Germany
that
she
has
no
al-
ternative
but
to
accept
the
Allied
de-
mands.
‘'Answering
dttacks
in
the
French
Press,
that
he had
been
influenc-
ed
by
Jewish
Financiers,
the
Prime
Min:ster asserted
that
two of
the
bank-
ers
wno
made
represent-tions
to
him
were Knglish,
another Irish and
another
Scoteh.
As
for
Sir
Alfred
Mond.
Mr.
Lloyd Geoirge
said,
""The
House
will be
surrised
to hear
that
he
was
the
strong-
est advocate
for
making
Germany
pay,
and
he is one 0! those
who are
convinced
that Germany
can
pay’’
(This
was with
reference
to rumours
what
Sir Alfred had
urged leniency
towards
Germany.)