more suitable and capable man to be Chairman cf the Food Com mission thain Mr. R. E. tiggins of Frederiksted whose experience in butiness qual.fies him be- yond doubt? ! Yours CONSUMER. TELEGRAM»S.: ST. TROIX STATION. Vienna, Feb. Ist.—Advices from Bu- charest sta.e th:t Bolsheviki forces are waiting on the f ‘ontier for he lesult of an offer of peace terms to Roumania If the térms are re.used, the SovielL troops will advance. Dublin, febrvary 2nd.—Sixty-five prn- minent Sian l'einers and Repuiblicans have neen arrest2d in chis c:ty, Tipperary Limerick aad Cork. Paris, Faby. Ist.—A proposal by M. Marsal, Miaister of Financz2, for an in- terna.ional confererice rezarding the ex~hange sitnation, nas bz2en approved in vprinciple by the Counecil of Min- iscers. Brussels, Feby. 2nd.—A Commit ece of the Belgian Press Association has in- vited the ovaramen: to follow the .x- --ampie of Hoiland, [taly and Spain regeid- ing a eomoalsory Sunday rect for tha Press and asks thata decree be iss ed prohiditi«g tize :ale of newspapers from Saturday 1t Mo iday. - London, Feby. 2nd. —Peace was d-fi- nitely con:lude:l this moraing betwcen t sthonia aad th* Russian Soviet Gove 'n- mend, a“eHirdain;; to a wireless mess:.ge f 'om Moscrwv. Haoana. teby 2nd——A Presidential Je- cree suspooding constitutional guaran- tees tor cixty days was published on Sanday. tais act.on following rae refusal o’ stiking doeis-workers 1o accept tae piens ifor arbitration dem:nded by ine President :nd a v ed to by the empl y ei's. Washing on, leb. 2n! —A severe earthyquake, iast g more than twh hours and Central 3.30) to 3,300 miies trom this cicy, was record: d eariy this morning Jy the scismograph : at tne Gecegetown Uai- Virsicy. ‘ Wiihelmshave~ Fobruary 2nil. —Ad- miral Von Reuter, former' Chief of -he Fiast unk it >eapa Fiow, up- . his ar.ival herc was gre ted oy ‘housands of persons and the »sarboar front was cecore ced 1 nis honour. l.ondon, feb. ird. The “limes' on 3. curday, vublisled 2 letter of iwo cui- urans from Viscount Grey on tne at i- tude cf the Uni.ad Sia:zes towards tie ieague oft Nat- ns. He carefuliy ex- plains -hat he i not writirg as an ani- bassador, »Hut £3 a privatz incividual mm::king an -arne t attompt to fo-tert .e {riendliness of th: two democracie: bye «- pleining ce:tain spects of tae Aweric n ¢ itace.. l.e dec aves chat the Araerie n biesitedon to acee ot the i.eagae 1s notd e to hostility towards the principle, but Sli. ¢&1i3 A 1~ to eonstitutional questions, and possible effects which comvp:l caution. The re- servations proposed, he states, do not, in any way, challenge the right of self- governing dominicns to exercise their votes, nor do they state that the United States n2cessarily reject decision re garding the mann2r in which those voics are to be cast, therefore, itis pos- sible and.even more probabie that in practice no dispute would ever arfe. Our object in maintaining the status of the self-governing dominions, he declares Is lot .tc secure greater British than Am-zrican votes, ard we have no objec- tiors in principle to an increase of the Am>rican votes,. San Juan, P. R., Feb. sth.-——The U. S. Naval Yaeht ‘‘Dolphin’’ with the Con- gressional Committe», arrived yesterday anc left at four a. in. today for St. Tho- mas. St. Thomas, Feb. sth.—The French Cotapany advise th: repair of the Porto Plato Cape Haiti and Cape Haiti-Mole St. Nicholas cables, restoring communi- cation by their normal route via Haiti, Nex York and via Haiti, Santiago. Treffie can now be accepted by either roucte but owing to congestion is subject to delay. ee e e al Jommittee arrived here on the U. S. Do phin shortly aiter noon yesterday. At 1.45 p m. landed and after meeting Governor Oman and his staff and men:- bers of tie Colonial Council, and having becn paid the 2 usua honours, proceeded to attend the mee ing ol the Colonial Couneil. Immediat ly upon the adjourn- ment of _he Counecil the Committee pro- ceeded te hold heairings. Several mem- bers of tie Council adaressed the Com- miitee, which adjcurned at six p. m. Another meeting wes held this morning. The Committee will leave for St. John abcut noon on Saturday and it is expect- ed will zrrive at I redericksted late on Satarday nighi, wh:re they will remain unt:l Mor day evening. NEW YORK, Feb. 4th 1920, Floar, Biendad Clear St. Lawrence i rand or. bri. $12.70 Me..l, Kilndried per 100 tbs $3.75 New Season’s Pork per brl. $46.00 te: vy "Ness Pork per obl. $44.00 Sugar---C rystals (Cuntirmed by Brokers) . per 10U ibs. s7.¢B. Moiasses 39" test pr IwU Ibs. no quotation Cot on, Middiing Up-and, at Liverpool per ib. 57 50-100 d. wxcirange, New Ycrk and London, 60 days’ sight $3.17 wxcaange New York and London, signt $3.19% LONDON, Fzb. 4th 1919. sSugr-Deinerara Crystais duty paid price. pxad by the Koyal ommission per cwts 106s. od. -109 s. od. Mus rovad), 897/ basis, tloating rerms in por d, Diito duty pa:d. 955. 97d. 954 od. (ierinan Bzet 887/¢ 1.0.b. no further sales during the war White Java sugar cif U. Kingdom ecif . without engagement. 90.0 White Java Sugar, c¢if Uunited King- dom if arrives before 27th December &5/ Denerara Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red pe) cwt 128s. od. 130s. od. Cottor: Medium Fine Sea Island, at Liy er;ool nominal per |b. Bank of England rate of Discount per cent. 6. Consols 50$ Three per cent rentes in Paris Fes. 58.65. All prices subject to correction. SUGAR NOTES. A gigantic onslaught is veing made no the bulwarks of re | sugar by the forces of King Saccharine who seeing the sugar line somewhat depleted is placing his guns in some of the newspapers with striking ‘‘ads’’ to convince the people that the Federal Department of Agri- culture will 6pen the gates 10 welcome the pretender to the sugar throne. “he advertisements say that saccharine will not displace sugar at all but will release 100,000,000 pounds a year and then as a parting shot says that "‘it is a well-known fact that sugar is a poison for many peo- ple.”” 'l'ne advertisement does not add that meat is a poison and pickles are a poison 0 some veopie. Senator Spencer introduced a resolution in Congress that reads as follows: “‘Whereas the use of “saccharine in those foods and beverages in which the adde« food value of sugar is not desired would release not less than 100,000,000 pout ds of sugar per annumn for use 1n foods in which the food value 18 necessary; therefore, be it "*Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry be requested 1o investigate and report upon the present status of saccharine under departmental regulation and upon the feasibility of its wider use in th- Unitel States for the relief of the present sugar shortage.” —Louisinna Planter, 17th Jan. The United States Department of Apri- culture has sent out distinct instructions recently about the laheling o sugar sub- stitutes. The aim: 1s not w 0 discourave the use of these substitutes, bui (o in- foris the consumer of exacdy what he is getting. The fight against glucose has had the same fact in mind, and some day may win out when wruth prevails. jbid. ITne sugar industry in Spain scemed (o be in a very hopeful state ac wue pegin ning of November. it ls crue the indus- try suffered with