are
now
on the
verge of bankruptey
and
we will not be able
to continue
with even
our preseut
scale
of taxation much longer
if
there
is
not
a
decided
change
to
the
letter in the possibilities.
Government
Secretarv
(Ggaffney)
re-
marked:
Mr. Chairman.
Oiie more point
I would
iike to place
before
the
Council,
and that should always be borne
in mi
The
proceeds
of
any
tax
goes
into
Treasury,
the
United
States
does
»
ask for one
cent.
It has
never
been
v
policy
to
ask
any
possession
for
1y
money
from the
revenue
collected.
/
4th
Member for
Frederiksted
Country
District (Fleming) remarked:
Mr. Chair-
man.
As
thisisa
matter
of
vital
im-
portance
to the community
I ask
that
it
be
not left in the
hards
of a few
mem-
bers;
I ask
thet it be
referred
toa
com-
mittee
of the whole
house.
3rd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Alexander)
remarked.
Mr.
Chairman.
With
regard
to
remarks
made
by
the
Honorable
4th Member for
Freceriksted
Country
District.
i proposed
that
the
matter
go
into
a
committee
and
have
members
of the community
summoned
to
appear
before
that
committee
and
give
an
opinion.
The
same
is
done
in
Chngress
whenever
there
is
an important
matter
before it; it is
not
a question
of
sending
the matter
to
four
or five
mem-
bers.
That
is
my
.dea
of
the
maltier.
T e
Honorable
Member
misunderstood
me.
The
Chairman
put
to the
vo.e the
mo-
tion
made by 4th
Member for
Frederik-
sted Country Distriet that
the Ordina
.ce
be referred
to a
committee
of the
whole
house.
12 members
voted for; none
against.
The
Chairman
remarked:
As
this
is
eBPOt
1
@
osiannmeont
wishes
to have decision
vt 1t
as
Guicauy
as
possible,
I will ask
Members
to
meet
after
the
Council
meeting
to
organize
and
to
select
a Chairman
and
Secretary
and
to fix the
dates
on which
meetings
are
to be held,
so
as to be able
to
report
on the Bill as quickly as possible.
The
Chairman
then
remarked:
The
nex:
item
on
the
Order
of
the
Day
i election
of Members
of the R?l
Com-
nission.
This
will
be
taken
TP after
ecess.
1 wish
to state
for the
informa-
ion
of Mambers
that there
has
been
no
lection
as
far
as
I
can
remember
or
oarn
since
the
American
occupation.
will therefore
read
the
names
of
the
nembers
acting at present,
so that
any
Jember
may
take
objection
to
any
of
hem
if they
desire
should
there
be
a
lifference of opinion as
to all
tenure
of
Jffice having expired.
The
members
are:
Messrs.
.
B. Fleming
A. V. Nelthropp
F. Andersen
J.
Schuster
A. Queale
C. Hagemann
W. H. Fleming S. Jorgensen
(deceased)
"
~so
the Council elected
4 and the
~pointed
4
After
election
‘he Governor
will
make
= L
X A
Vvl5
the appointmentc
I have had
t
pewrit-
ten:
copies
of the\Par.
of
the
Ordin-
ance
regarding
the election
of
Members
of the Commission
agd
I
will now circu-
late it among
membérs.
.
Accordingly
the
typewritten
Par.
of
the
Ovdinane:
was
circulated
among
Membhers.
The
Chairman
then
gave
a
recess
of
25
it ates.
(70 be continued)
LOUAL.
.
Ravorel
boat
‘‘Pulwico’’ arrived
at
this
port
yesterday
noon
and sailed
for St.
Kitts eally today
Lavin,
rked
1o
a
fimiih
last
nighit.
It
19
advised
that
owing
to
earlier
departure
the
mails
for
the
Islands
were
closed
and
delivared
to the
steamer
last night.
Copious
rain
showers
fell
here
last
night.
The
‘‘Creole’’
has
not
yet
returned
from
St.
Themas,
Belated
but nevertheless
correct
is the
advice
received
that the dwelling
house
at listate
““Campo
Rico’’ owned
by Miss
M.
Latimer,
was
totally
destroyed
by
tir2 on Friday last
week,
December
30th.,
cause
of fire
undetermined.
It is under-
stood
that
many
unreplacable
articles
vere
lost
and
considerable
value
as
a
whole,
nothing being
covered
by
insur
ance.
TELEGK
-~ MS.
S CROIX STATION.
Lonuun,
Dec.
28th.—Official reports
re-
ceived from
Cairo today stated
.
¢ the
situation in
lower Egypt
was
apm
-h-
--ing normal,
that all officials
had
retur...d
to th-ir
offices and
that
only
the schools
remained
closed.
There
were small
dis-
turvances
in
Alexandria
yesterday,
but
Cairo, the
Canal
Zone,
and
the
Hinter-
land
were quiet,
indicating,
according
to
official circles
here,
that
the
worst of the
disturbances
have ended.
Washington,
Dec.
28th.—The
import-
ant farm
crops
of the United
States
were
valued
at
$5,675,877,000
this year
based
on prices
paid
to
farmers
on
December
Ist.
[he
department
of
agrieulture
announced
today its final estimates.
The
same
crops,
which comprise
abont ninety
per cent
of the value
cf all farm
ecrops,
were
valued
last year
at
$9,075,388,000,
Washington,
Dec.
28th.—The
submar-
ine controversy
has
revealed
so wide
a
difference of opinion
among
the
powers
that the
arms
delegates
are
seriously
discussing
a pian
to
leave
the
whole
question
of
auxilisry warships’
tonnage
to a later international
conference.
Washington,
Dec.
27th-——Rear
Admiral
Charles
Henry Davis,
retirad
brother-in-
law of
Senatcr
Lodge of Massathusetts,
died at
his
home
here
tcday.
b
a native of
Boston
and
was 76
veu
age.
London,
Dee.
28th.—Following
a co.
ference
between
the
South
Africa Gov-
ernment
and
Sou'h
African
Industrial
Federation
and
the traders
union,
it has
been
ecided
to recommend
a
strike
at
the
Witbank
and Vereriginn
coal
mines
on January
Ist.
Ahmadabad,
British
India, Dee.2Bth
An attempt
tr force
the adoption,
by
the
Indian Nationulist
Congress
today
of
a
motion providing that complete
indepen-
dence
from the
British Empire should
be
attained
by a possible
and
proper
means,
instead
of
by
“‘legitimate and peaceiul
means’’,
was
frustrated
by
Mahatma
Gandhi,
the
Nationalist
leader.
who
varned
the
Congress
against
alienat-
ing
the
sympathies
of the
Moderates.
A
speci.
~~mmittee
rejected
the,
pro-
posal by an overwhelming
majority
and
adopted
Gandhis
resolution
in
favour
of maintaining
th» existing creed
of non-
violence.
"When
an
attempt
was
made
to
move
the extremist
amendment
in the
tull Congress
the President
ruled it
out
of order.
The
Congress
opened
today
under
the Presidency
of Hakim
Ajmal
Khanra,
in
the
place
of Dr
Das.
the
President
of
the Congress,
who
was
ar-
rested
recently
in Bengalih,
twelve
thou-
sand
persons
attended.
Ajmal
in
his
speech
said
he
welcomed
the
Govern-
ment’s
policy of repression,
which
had
strengthened
the
determination
of
the
Indian peopla
to continue
Btheir
struggle
more
vigorousiy.
Messages
were
re-
ceived from
Das and
his
wife,
both
of
whom
are
in prison,
exhorting all
the
Indians
to
act
now
or
never
b
Joining
the
Khalifat
volunteers
and
si
Hending
their other
normal
activities.
Dublin,
Dec.
28th--The
©Cavan
Urban
Council has
adopted
a
resolution
setting
forth its high
appreciation
of
the
terms
of the
treaty,
and
while
recognizing
the
great services
rendered
by
tle
members
of the Dail Eirreann
opposing
the
treaty
declares,
'‘we unanimously
request
them
for the sake
of our
dear
country
to
bury
their
differences
and
to
stand
with
Griffith and
McKeown
for ratification.”’
A meeting of the
Tyrone
county
ecouncil
has
been
called
for the
purpose
of
con-
sidering
a
resolution
in
favour
of
rati-
fication
while
Nationalists
and
Sinn
Feiners
of Omagh
last
night passed
a
resolution
demanding
that
the Dail
Eiy-
eann
arrange
that
the representatives
of
the
counties
of Tyrone
ard
Fermanagh
be
allowed
to voice
their views.
London,
Deec.
29th.--It
was officially
stated
today
that the importation
of dis-
orderly
elements
into
Caleutta
on
Dec,
23rd to
enforce
the ‘‘Hartal”’ by terror-
izing
shop-keepors,
resnlted
in 650
ar-
rests
for obstructiop
and
on other charg-
es of disorderly conduct.
Arrests in Cal-
cutta for similar
reasons
during the past
six weeks -have totallec 13,500, according
to the statement.