speaker
shouted
the
following:
We
don’t want
Hall
#nv more,
to
he
Union
Doctor,,he
must
go,
he
must
not
stay
longer {han
the end
of the month, which
was
March,
we
are
now
in
April,
and
the
gentleman
has
not
yet
gone,
for
he is still seen
on his job.
Since he
should
have
gone
from
the
end of March,
and
he has
not yet
gone
I go so far as
to ask, why hasn’t he taken
farther
steps
in
seeing that
he
go?
I again
ask,
how
does
he
feel
to
see
that
this
man
who
he
shouted
must
go,
is still filling-the same
job, and
still
doing
the
same
work
as
sick
Superin-
tendent
nf the Labor Union.
Mr.
Speaker,
doesn’t he
laugh at
you
-
when
he
passes
you?
Well, he
is good if
he don’t.
Since
that
I have
been
hearing
that
Granady,
who
is
werking
as
Attorney
for the Union,
is to go too.
If they didn’t
succeed
in getting
Hall to
go,
are
they
going to succeed
with Granady?
Thanking you for space.
I
am,
'
Respectfully,
). 0. HALL.
St. Thomas
News.
The
case
of
Josz
Soto
and
Jose
Lo-
pez
vs.
Government
of
the Virgin
Is-
lands
was argued
before
the
U. S.
Cir-
cuit
Court
of
Appeals
in
Philadéelphia
on
April Bth.
by
Dallas
..
Townsend
of the New York Bar.
»
It is expected
a decision
will be hand-
ed
down
within
a
month.—St.
Thomas
v
Mail Notes April 20th.
Government
has
ordered
that Elsa
M.
Govine
placed
on
trial
before
the Dis-
trict Court
of St.
Thomas
on
a
charge
of at:empting
to poison
by using
sugar
of
lead.
Government
Attorney
Horvan
will
prosecute
and
Government
Attorney
Williams will defend. —lbid.
TELEGRs MS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
April
19th. —A
Beriin
des-
pateh
to the Daily Mail says that the May-
or of Emmerich,
near
the German-Dutch
frontier, placed
on
the coffin of the form-
er German
Empress
a
wreath
of thorns
sntwined
with
laurels,
symbolizing the
sadness
whieh
overshadowed
her
last
days.
Paris,
April 19th.—The
Allied
repara-
tion
commission
arnounced
today
that
it has
given
Germany
until
April 22nd
to
transfer
the
gold
holdings
of
the
Reiseh Bank,
the German
Imperial Bank,
*
o the Coblenz
and
Cologne
branches
of
the bank.
If Germany
refuses
to
com-
ply with the ultimatumh
the
commission,
it states,
will require
the
Immediate
de-
.
livery
of
the
goid
to
the
commission
)
itscif.
In
the
event
of
the transfer of
'
the gold
to
the
branches,
the
sum
‘may
5553LEU
LA A VYIS
continu2
to
figure
as
part
of the balance
of the
Reichs
Bank,
the
commission
ex-
plains,
but
the
German
Government
would have
no right
to dispose of it with-
out
obtaining
previous
authority
from
the
eommission
to
do
so.
The German
Govt. recently declared
the demand
to be
unacceptable
under
any
circumstances.
The
latest
figures
‘on
the
gold holdings
of the
bank,
contained
in
its statement
for
April Tth,
show
that
on
that
date
there
were
1 091,602,000
marks.
London, April 18th.
- The
cricket
team
vhich toured Australia
last winter arriv-
ed
home
this
morning.
Capt.
Douglas
said
the
Australians
put
up better
teams.
He <aid
he
had
every
hope that the posi-
tion would be altered
in the
series
of test
games
to
be
played
by
the
Australian
team
in
England
this
Summer.
The
Australian team,
which traveled from Au-
stralia
on
the
same
boat
as
(he Engiish
team,
left: the sship
at
Monte
Carla,
where
they
will stay
a few days before
proceedaing
to England.
New
York,
April 19th.
-The
feature
of the
raw
sugar
market
today
was
the
announcement
that
the
Cuban
commit-
tee
had
sold
20,000
tons
of
Cuba’s
to
the
United
Kingdom
at
a price said
to
be
equal
to about
43
cost
and
freight.
The
committee
also
reduced
their
prices
here
to
48,
cost
aaxd
freight.,
equal
*o
5.54 for centrifugal,
or as
on the same
ba-
sis
as
uncontrolled
sugar.
The
market
for
refined
sugar
as
unchanged,
to
25
points lower,
with
fine
granulated
now
listed
at 7.65 for hard
grades,
while
sev-
eral
refiners offering solt
2rades
at
7.50
Ottawe,
April
19th.—The
House
of
Commons
today
gave
the
final reading
to a Bill which
ratifies
the
trade
agree-
ment
between
Canada
and
the
West
Indies.
Criticism of the agreement
was
of a friendly nature and
no serious
clash
developed.
Sir
George
Foster,
Minis-
ter of Trade
an
Commerce,
explained
the terms
of
the
agreement.
The
Do-
minion
would givea preference
of
not
less
than
59%
on
the
majority
of
arti-
cles
imported
from
the
West
[ndies.
The
West
Indies
would
give
a
prefer-
ence
to
Canadian
gonods
ranging
from
50% i
the
case
of
certain
islands
to
25 percent
in
others.
Improved
steam:
ship faci.ities
and consequent
increasing
passenger
and
cargo
business
between
("anada
and
the
West
Indies
were pro
vided for
in the
agreement,
which
has
been
approved by
scvers
of the
isiands
and alse
by the British
Government.
London, April 19th.—The Prime
Min-
ister
defends
the
Governraent’s
policy
in Ireland
and
cites
the
United
States
civil war
as
providing
an exact
parailel
for
the
situation
there,
involving
the
fuodamental
issue
of
union
or
session,
in his
veply today
to
the
recent
memo-
rial sent
nim
by
nine
Anglican
Bishop
and
tine heads
of the
principal
non-con-
formist
churches
in
Great
Britian.
[n
this memoriai
the
siZners
endorsed
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury’s
protest
in
the
House
of Lords
against
repris;
|«
in
Ireland
and
pieaded
for
a
truce
Among other
things
t®e
menorial
(¢
clared
that
the Govt’s, policy in Irelai..
exposed
Great
Britdin to misunderstas
«
ing and
hostile
criticisms,
even
of
1.
friendliest of the
world’s nations.
London,
April
20th.— Demsnds
1:;
the
establishment
of
a
National Wag
Board
and
a
National
Wage
Fool, ha«
been
re-affirmed
by large
majorities
11
district
committees
of
miners
througi.
out
the
country,
it
is
claimed
by
ti
“Daily Herald”’,
the
organ
of
labou:
The newspaper
claims
that
these
mee!
ings
which
were
held
preparatory
1
the
conference
of
the
Miners
Feder:
tion
of
Great
Britain
here
on
Friday.
stood
14 to
1 in favour
of the demand..
of the Union.
The statem:nt
w: s issued
by the Miners Federation
last night,
de-
claring that
Mr. Lloyd George’s
addres
in
the
House
on
Mo. day did
not
carry
the possibility of a settlement
any furth-
er
than it stood
last
week.
The
state
ment
declared
Mr. Lloyd George
‘‘Ha:
not yet grasped
the essential
features
of
the
National
Wage Pool’” and that he
.
"‘Obsessed
by
the view
that the
miners
demand
a pool
of
profits”’.
1t
is
sug-
gested
that there
shall be levied a certaip
amount
on each
ton
of coal, this
money
being
used for the
purpose
of
establish-
ing
the
wage
pool.
It is
proposed
that
the
sum levied,
shouid
be figured as
one
of
the
elements
of the
cost of
produc-
tion.
The
statement
asserts
that
this
method of
providing {unds
for the
pool,
is
perfectly feasible,
but hat
the
mine
owners
have
refnsed
to
accept
it,
on
inadequate
and
mistaken
grounds.
Brit-
ish
mine
owners
who
met
in
this city
yestercay,
announced
last
night that the
meeting
had
completed
proposals.
whieh
wowld
be submitted,
in an
effort
to
se-
cure
a
seitlement
of
the
roal
strike.
These
proposals,
it
declared,
met
many
of the demands
of the
miners,
and
would
care
for
men
who
were
inadequately
raid.
It
is
improbabie
that
the-mine
owners
and
the
coal diggers
will
meet
betore
EFri
ay,
ard in the
meaniime
the
coal
snortage
is becoming
acute
in
Lon-
don and
other large cities
in England.
London,
April 20th.
An
echo
of the
Prime
Minister’s famous
speech,
accus-
ing British
labour
leaders
of
revolution-
ary
designs,
was
heard
at Bedford
yes-
terday,
when
Mrs.
Lloyd George,
who is
speaking
iu
the interest
of the
new
Post-
master
General
in
the
Bedford Lkye-el¢
tion, said,
"‘We have beaten Prussianism,
we
must
now
prepare
to beat Russian-
ism.,
The disciples
of Lemne
and
Trot-
sky
are
among
us,
bent
on
destroying
our cherished
institutions
and
bringing
disaster
upon
the nation’’.
.
London, April 20th.—All
‘he Salvation
Army officials imprisoned
in Kussia
have
been
liberated,
according.
to z despatch
received
by
General
Booth
from Salva-
tion
headquarters
at
Helsingiors,
Fin-
lanc.
g