at
the
next
meeting,
will answer
the
questions
the
Member
has
propounded;
I could answer
some
myself, but
I
think
it
would
be better
to take up
ali at
one
time.
In regard
to the
Agricultural
Station
the
Municipality has nothing
more
to
do
with
it.
After
the hurricane
a
certain
amount
was appropriated
spent
and
the
amount
budgetted
is
to
pay
ack
the
amount.
In regard
to the
West
India and
Pana-
ma Telegraph
Co., the Honorable Member
has
a
right
to eriticise,
but you
will find
that all
other places
there
is a ery
about
high
‘rates;
however,
they
nave
only
taree
more
vears
to 0
under
their
¢n-
tract.
15t Member
for
Frederiksted
Country
District
(Andersen)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
Is
there
any
clause
in
the
contract
that
prevents
a prevocation
of
it?
Itis
rediculous
to pay
Fres.
5,000
and
get such
bad
service.
The
Chairman
remarked:
In
regard
to the
news
I do
not know why that
can-
not
be remedied.
Ist Member for
Frederiksted
Country
Disiriect
(Andersen)
rema.ked:
Mr.
Chairman.
[am
very sorry
to learn
that
we cannot
vet any
news
from
the
Agri-
cultural
Station.
The
Staticn
was
cre-
ated
by the community,
and
the
commu
nity has
spent
a good
deal
of
money
on
it and it is rediculous
that
we cannot
get
any information from it.
Che
Chairman
replying
to
the
last
speaker
said,
The
Honorable
Member,
as
a citizen
has
a
right to make
apolica-
tion
for
any
information
he
wishes
to
have.
Ist
Member for Frederiksted
Ceuntry
District
[Andersen]
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
I think
we
did poor
business
in giving over the
Sration
to
the
Federal
Government.
Ido not
know of any
man
who
sells
out
his
business
and
retains
its
debts.
Ist
Member for Christiansted
Country
Distriet
[Stakemann]
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
[do not
intend
to speak
on
this
budget
because
I
do
not
consider
the
money
is
ours.
1
only
wish
o
sav
if
we
curtail
this
budget
by
saying
we
do not
want
this
or
that
the
mon-
ey
will,
very
likely,
go
over
to St.
Thomas:
we
have
seen
that
in
the
' Lospital
case;
for my
part
I
would
put
on some
more
expenses.
Why
can
we
not put
on
some
more
mouey
to
fix
our
roads.
When
the time comes
for
us
to
spend
our own money
and
we
are
taxed
more
than
we are taxed
at present,
then
we
ean
say
the
amounis
are
too
much.
Under present
circumstances
1 say
iet
us
get as
much
as
we can.
4th Member for Christiansted
Country
Distri~t (Ramsay)
asked
the last
speak-
er- Do I understand
you
are
not
2oing
to vote for this budget.
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemann)
answered;
No,
I
will not.
°
Sl.
¢ R
A Vl>
4th Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Ramsay)
: “Suppose
all
of
us
do the
same
7
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
District
[Stakemann]
: That’s
your busi-
ness.
4ch
Member for Christiansted
Country
District
[ Ramsay]
:
1f you have
this
is-
land’s
interest
at
heart
you
certainly
would
say
different.
To
vote
for
the
biddet
is fifty percent
vou
owve and ®fifty
percent
ithe
public
owe.
If you
have
anything
at heart
come
ocut
with
it,
but
don’t say You will not
vote
fo® the
bud
get.
Ist Member
for Caristiansted
Country
District
[Stakemann]:
In
my
home
I
would tell my wife get this and
get that,
but this bud<et
is a different matter;
when
it cogies
to the point it matters
very
little
whether
the
Couneil
vote
the budget
or
not.
Under
the
former
Government
it
was different,
4th Member for Christiansted
Country
District
[Ramsay],
remarked:
1
have,
again,
the
trouble
to
attack
the
last
speaker;
I
am
tired
hearing
about
tne
former
Government;
let
that
Goveru-
ment
be dead
and
speak
about
the
pre-
sent
Government.
This
Government
is
is tryipg
to
work
in
harmony
with
us.
[t is true
that
expenses
should
be kept
down
as
much
as
possible,
but
that
does
not
mean
that
we
shou'd
not
have
suffi-
cient
money
to
rus
the
various depart-
ments,
or
that
employvees
should
be
underpaid.
Ist
Member
for
Frederiksted
Town
(Coulter)
remarked:
vr
Chairman.
The
remarks
of
the
last
speaker
draws
the
attention
of
the Honorable
Members
of
this Ceuncil
to
one
or two
items
of
ex-
penses
in
connection
with
this budget.
In
connection
with
salaries
for
Munici-
pal employees,
the :Municipal
Committee
has recommended
an
increase
of 207 for
all
mployees
receiving
a monthiy
salary
of Fres.
75 or-less.
[am
not
acguainted
with
the
salaries
of employees
in
the
various
departments,
but
! am acquainted
with
the
salaries
of
the
employees
in
the Municipal Hospitals;
and
[
am glad
that
the
salaries
of the
Inspectors
are
raised
to
$125
per
month,
that
is
more
in
keeping
with
the
onerous
duties
of
their pusition, but when
its
comes
to the
salaries
of the other
emplovees,
take
the
salary
of
the
Chief
Janitor,
Fres.
900
per year;
now
we all
kaow
the
pay
la-
bourers
are
rveeceiving
today
and
when
it
is
taken
into
consideration
that
a
sirong
abled
bodied
man
who is able
to
take
a litter
up
the
stairs—to
work
for
$3.75
per
week,
and
he
has
to do duty
from
six
to
six
in
the
day
and
three
nights
a week,
[don’t
think
any
mem-
ber of this
Council
will
say
that tne
sal-
ary budgected
is comniensurate
with tae
duties
incumbent
on such
an employee;
that also
is applicable
to
tae
Wardmaids.
Five
dollars
per month
tor
Icook
and
she
1s
supposed
to
be
clean
and
wear
shoes,
and
work
from
six
to six every
day for $1.25
a week.
I don’t
thinkthat
member
of
this
Council
will
say
any,
that
remuneration
this
Government
is
proud of paying
to
such
an
employee.
I certainly
agree
with
Member
Stake-
mann
that
the
budget
be
increased.
In
these
days
of high
cost of living to
ex-
pect
physically
good
people
to
live
on
$1.25 per
week
is impossible.
[certain-
ly
ask
that
consideration
be
given
to
my
remarks
in
connection
with
these
employees,
and
if
Government
cannot
see
Its way
to increase
their salaries
409
propose
to
feed
them
with
three
good
meals
a day and
that
will
preserve
the
moral fitness
which the
head
of the
de-
partment
demands
of them.
The
Chairman
closed
Ist
Discussion
and remarked
that
Government
desires
to
call
an
extraordinary
meeting
for
next Monday
the 21st. inst.
To
be
continued.
Attention
1s
called
to
a
notice
from
Mr. L.a Bega
in
this issue
to the
etfect
that
ice
will
be
manufactured
from
spring-water
from Monday
next week
al-
ter which
date,
as itis
urderstood,
the
supply of rain-water
being
so
reduced
it
will
not
be-
possible
to
use
much
of
it for the purpose.
Receipt
1s
acknowledged
and
thanks
extended
the
Government
*for
2
books
comprising
the
new
code
laws
sent
to
the office of this
paper.
The
Steamboat
‘‘Saranac’’
returned
from
St.
Thomas
yesterday
afternoon.
As
passengers
were
observed
Mr.
E
Phaire
and
Lawyer J.
P.
Jorgensen
The
Navy
Band
enlivened
the
town
with
a
popular
concert
last
night
as
which
there
was
a
large
gathering.
Several
fair
showers
of
rain fell
atto
midnight
last rgeht.
TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Delayed
in
Transmission,
Honolulu,
June
sth. -According
(o ad-
vices received
here
Nikolaievik
has
been
captured
by she
Japanese
naval and
mil
itary
forces,
working
in
conjunction.
after
a
short
and
decisiva
battie,
in
which
the Bolsheviki
were
either
driven
out or captured.
Paris,
June
sth.
—A
discussion
on
the
budget
in the
Chamber
o7
Deputies
yes-
terday
brought
out
the
announcement
that Pari
Mnutuel
Beiting
had
thus
far
totailea
six
hundred
miliion
franes.
of
which the Government
gets
ten
per cent.
It is proposed
to increase
this
tax
to elev
en per
cent,
the additional
money
to
be
used
to support
the
work
of
the
Agri
cultural
Departmens.
Washington,
June
6th.
Prosident
Wil
son
on
the
fourth
instant
accepted
the
resignaticn
of
Mr..
Polk.
the
Under.
Seeretary
of State.