MAILS CILOSE
for
St.
Thomas
at
5
o’clock
this
afternoon,
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COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
(Continued from yesterday’s
Avis.)
.
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
I cannot
sce
any
reason
for
an
hour
re-
cess
on
this
matter.
The
Municipal
Cctmittee
had jthis matter before
it for
nearly
three
months
arnd
could
not
put
it through
for the
sake
of some
onc who
was absent,
:
4th
Appointed
Member
(Blackwood)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
Mr
Mo-
ran
met
with
us
and
said
he
was
not
in
a
position
to
make
any
promise,
bat
he
said
if the instituiion
isform-
ed,
the
Red
Cross
would
give
liberal
ald.
The
question
before
us
now
is,
whether
this
mat‘er will be furthered
or
whether
the Couneil
does
not
want
the
(mstitution,
and
whether
we do
not
care
about
the
moral of the girls of this
town.
Ist Member
tor
Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemann)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
| consider
that the discussion
is confined
to a committee.
If the
com-
mittee
1s to report
here
this afternoon
I
would
prefer
to jwithdraw the
proposal,
We
must be
given time
to consider
what
we are
going
to do, and
what
we
are
not
gcing
to do.
Those
who
are
legislating
for
the
general
welfare of the
communi-
ty
must
be
given
a chance
to
consider
what
they
are
going
to
do.
Meeting
after meeting matters
are rushed
through
this
Council,
just because
we
are told
if
action
1s not taken
we ,would
lose.
We
are
here
toact for the good of the peopie,
and
we snouid
not
be treated
in
sueh
a
manner.
Passing
matters
through three
discussions
in one day
1s
not in the
mean-
ing of
the
('olonial
Law;
time
must
be
given.
We
are
not sitting
here for
the
sake
of ourseives,
we
are
here
for
the
good
of
the
public.
[ again
propose
a
commiiiee
of five
members
to
investi-
gate and
report
on this matter.
Znd
Appeinted
Member
(Noli)
would
like to know with regard
to the bill which
1s now beiore
the
Council
where
and
now
is the Colonial
Law violated?
ist
Member
for Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemann)
answered:
The
law
1s not violated,
bui the
members
are
sitting
here
and
making
extraordinary
measures.
Ist
Member
for Frederiksted
Country
District
(Andersen)
rvemarked:
Mr.
Chairraan.
{f itis known
thar
there
is
not
another
place
to
be had,
why
then
have
a committee
appointed?
ST Lkl
X
A NILS
?nd
Appointed Member (Noll) remark-
ed:
1
am
not
authorized
to
speak
for
Government.
but §f om
personal
know-
ledge I do
not know of another
place tor
even
a
temporary
occupation
that
will
meet
with the condition
laid down
by the
Red
Cross.
:
o
°
2rd
Member
for Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
it seems
to me
a peculiar thing that
one
member
is in possession
of such 'informa-
tioh
when
the
Municipal Committee
has
not
even
the slightest
information
of
it.
4th Appointed Member (Blackwood)
re-
marked:
Mr.
Chairman.
The
Manici-
pal
Committee,
as
faras
I know,
has
neser
investigated
to
"~nd
out
whether
any other suitabie
place
eould be had.
Ilst
Member for Christiansted
Country
District (Stakemann)
remarked.
Is
it
a
State
secret
why the conditions
of the Red
Cross
cannot
be
made
publie?
;
The
Chairmap
answered:
Not that
[
know
of,
As
far asI know Mr.
uioran
spoke tentatively,
he
said
he
was
no. in
a position
to speak
with, authority.
The Chairman
pus
to the vote
the
pro-
posal
made
by
Member
Stakemann
for
4
committee
of five
members
to
investi-
gate and report
on the bill.
7 members
voted for;
none
against.
The
CChairman
remarked:
The
motion
is carried.
'
‘The
Chairman
then
gave
a
recess
of
twenty minutes.
;
\
After recess
the
Council
rea :sembled
and
the
Chairman
asked- Members
to
prepare
their
voting’ tickets
for a
com-
mittee
of
five
members
to
investigate
and report
on Colonial Council Bill No. 41.
11 voting
tickets
were
handed
in.
1 was
invalid and
one
was blank.
Elected
were:
2nd
Member for Chris-
tiansied
Town (Canegata)
with
9
votes,
Ilst
Member
for
Christiansted
Country
District (Stakemann)
and Ist Member for
Christiansted
Town (Abramson)
with
8
votes
respectively,
4th
Member
for
Christiansted
Country Disiriet
(Ramsay)
with 6 votes
and 3rd Member
for
Chris-
tiansted
Town
(Pentheny)
with 4
votes.
2nd Member
for Christiansted
Country
Distriet (MacKay received
8
votes,"
4th
Appointed
Member
(Blackwood)
and
Znd Appointed
Member
(Noll)
receiy-
ed
2
votes
respectively,
2nd
Mem-
ber
for
Irederiksted
Town
(Merwin)
and
Hsth Appointed
Member
{Lunney’ re-
ceived
1 vote
respectively.
2nd Appointed Member (Noll) proposed’
that
the
Council adjourns
tor
one
hour
and that
the Committee
meet during that
hour
and
hand
in its.
report
.this
after-
nnon.
.
ist
Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemann)
rcemarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
That
proposal
is
impossible.
One of the members
elected
on the Com-
mittee
18 not
present. -
;
Z2nd Appointed Member
(Noll) remark-
ed:
[he mujority of them
are present.
The Chairman
remarked:
You have
a
quorum.
2nd Appointed
Member (Nollj remark-
ed:
Mr. Chairman.
Ido not expect
that
the
Committee
elected
to report
on
this
bill will hand §n its report
this
afternoon
as
the
majority of
the
men
elected
on
the Committee
are
not in favor.
...
... .
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata):
Mr.
Chairman
I rise
to
a
point of order;
a motion
for adjournment
is before
the House.
2nd
Appointed
Member
(Noli) again
moved that
the Council adjourns
for
one
hour
and
that
the
Committee
meet
dur-
ing
that
time
and
gjv:
its report
after
the Council
reassembles.
The Chairman
put
the proposal
to
the
vote,
6 members
voted for; 4 against.
‘The Chairman
remarked:
The
motion
is carried.
Znd Member
for
Frederiksted
Couantry
District (M. M. Skeoch)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
If there
is
danger
that
the
Coungil is goning to adjourn
and
the
mem-
bers
are
not coming back,
it is better
not
*o
a
journ for the hour,
as
the other
two
items
on the Order
of the
Day are
verv
important,
and
the
members
sfraying
away might
leave
us
without
a
quorum
and spoil the
Order of the Day.
According
to proposal
made
and
car-
ried, iho Councii
adjourned
ai 3.45
{0
re-
assemble
at 4.45
p.
m.
At 4.45
p.
m.
the
Council
reassembied
and
the Chairm®&n remarked.
‘‘We closed
with a recess
for one hour
with a motion
that the Committee
appointed
to
inves-
tigate and report
on
this
matter
should
meet
and
report
after the recess.”’
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked.
Mr.Chairman.
The
Committee
is
not
ready
to report.
The
Committee
has
the matter
under consider-
ation.
2nd Appointed
Member
{(Noll) moved
that
the
Committee
be
disolved and
the
Couneil
pioceed
with
the
business
be-
fore it.
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
would
hike
to know if a
mem-
ber
can
fix
a
time
when
a
committee
muast
work 7
2nd Appointed
Member (Noll) proposed
that the
vote be
taken
on his
motion
by
ballot.
‘
sth
Appointed
Member
Lunney,
4th
Member for Frederiksted
Couhtry
Dis-
trict
(Fleming),
3
Appointed
Member
Armstrong)
and 4th
Appointed
Member
{Blackwood) seconded
the member’s
pro-
posal.
3rd Member for Frederiksted
Country
District (Nordby)
remarked:
Mr. Chair-
man.
I .am
against having
the
institu-
tion on the Cay, and therefore [ will
not
vote forit.,
-:
2nd Member
tor cChristiansted
Town
(Canegata)
read Par.
11
of the Rules
of
Business
where it relates
to the
manner
in
which legislative
matters
are
treated
and
said,—l'his
is unjust,
and
1t this
is
the
way*the Couneil is
going
to
regard