Croix in its investigation
of the
cost of
production of sugar.
The Act of March 3, 1517,
places
a flat
eight
doilar tax per
short
ton
of
sugar
exported
from the Virgin Islands,
in lieu
of the Export
duty which ebtzined
prier
to the change
of sovereignty.
The
Presi-
dent
of the United
States
has
authority
under
the Tariff Law
to set,
within
cer-
tain
limits,
the
import
duty
on
sugar
from
foreign
covuntries
into
the
United
States,
and
the
important
factor
in
this,
determination,
is
the
cost
of
pro-
duction
of
sucar
within
the
United
States,
both
Continental
and
Insular.
It is the
impression
that
this flat raie
ol eight dollars
per
short
ton is tos high
and
places
St.
Creix
at
a
disadvantage
with
its
comvetiturs,
and
therefore
an
ivestigition
by
the
Tariff Commission
would b advisable
as
a
means
of ¢ither
determining
that
this
tax
is not unduly
high,
or,
if
the
contrary
is
frund
to be
the
case.
it could
lead
to
new ilegis'ation
designedc
to lower
or
remove
it.
(6)
That
the
Congress
be request-
ed to
define
the
citizenship
staius
of
the inhabitants
of the Virgin [slands.
The
Treaty
of
Cession
whereby
the
United
States
ucquned
the
Virgin
Is-
lands
from
Denmark
contain
the
feliow-
ing provision:
“*Article 6.
Danish
citizers
residing
in said
Islands
may
remain
there:n
or
may
remove
therefrom
at will, retain-
ing in either
event
all
their
righis
of
preperty,
inciuding
the
right
to
seli
or dispose of such
property
orits
pro-
ceeds:
in case
they
remain
'n
the
Is-
lands, they shall
continue
urtil
other-
wise provided,
to enjoy
all the private,
municipal
and
religious
rights
and
liberties
secured
to
them
by the laws
now in force.
If the present
laws
are
altered,
the said
inhabitants
shall
not
thereby
be
placed
in
a
less
favorahle
position in
respect
to the
above
men-
tioned
rights
and
liberties
ihan
they
now enjoy.
Those
who
iemain
in the
islands
may
preserve
their citizenship
in Denmark by making before
a
court
of record,
withinone year from the date
of the exchange
of
ratifications
of this
convention,
a
declaration
of
their de-
cision to preserve
such
citizenship;
in
default of which declaration
they
shall
be
held
to
have
renounced
it
and
to
have
accepted
citizenship
in the
Uni-
ted States;
for children
under
eig” een
vears
the
said
declaration
may
be
made
by
their
parents
oc¢
guard
ans.
Such
election
of
Danish
citizenship
<hail however
not, after a lapse
o
the
caid
term
of
one
year,
be
a
bar
to
their
renunciation
of their
preserved
Danish
citizenship
and
their
election
of citizenship in the United
States
and
admiss:on
to the rationality taerecf
on
the
same
terms
as
may
be
provided
sccording
to the
laws
ofthe
United
Gtates,
for other
inhabitants
of
the
islands.
The civil rights and
the poli-
£
1.
. U1X
AN
15
tical status
of
the
inhabitants
of
the
|
islands
shall
be
determined
by
the
Congress,
subiect
to
the
stipulations
|
contained
in ®he
present
convention.
|
Danish citizers
net
residing
in the is-
|
lands
but owning
property
therein
at
|
the
time
of
the
session,
shall
retain
|
their rights of property,
including tle
|
right
to
sell
er
dizpose
of such
pro-
l
perty,
being
placed
in
this regard
on
|
the same
basis
as the
Danish
citizens
|
residing
in
the
isiands
and remainir
g
|
ther2in
or
removing
therefrom,
to
|
whom
the first
paragrapun
of this ard-
|
cle relates.”
The foregoing
provision
of the Treaty
|
was generally understood
by
the
inhabi-
tants
of the
Virgin Islands,
as
intended
|
to confer
full
United
States
citizenship
|
rights
upoa
those
who
did not exercise
|
their
right
to
retain
their Danish
eciti-
zenship
Subsequently,
the
Departinent
of
State
held
that,
as
in
the
case
of
Porto
Rico,
a
spercific
declaration
of
|
the
intent
of
Congress
was
necessary
to confer full eitizenship
upoa
the
inhab-
itants
of the Virgin Islands,
so
that,
as
the
matter
now stands,
they
are
citizens
of neither
Denmark
or the United
States
This
situation
causes
mueh
annoyance
to the people of the Virgin is ands
when
they desire
to travel either
to the United
States
or
to foreign
countries
by
reassn
of the uncertainty,
generally,
as
to
their
individual
civil
siatus
with
reldation
to
the United State:,
and turthermore,
they
feel that they’are
diseriminated
against
through
the fact that,
while
they
were
full
eitizens
of
Dermamk
prior
to
tne
transfer,
they are
not
now
full
citizens
of the United
States.
To be continied.
LOCAL
The
s.s.
‘"Guiana’’ for
New Yo'k
is
due at Frederiksted
on Tuesday
at7
a.
m.
instead
of Monday morning.
|
;
!
The
s.
s. *‘Catherine’’ is
due
today
on
|
schedule
time,
having
4
tcns
of
eargo
|
for this island.
|
[t is advised
that
a mail for New York
|
will be closed
for
the
s.
s.
Guiana
on
|
Monday 18ih instant
at 4 p.
m.
|
As
regards
the closing
of registered
|
mail
tomorrow
morning,
itis
requested
made
known
that
this
refers
only
to
registered
mail for St.
Thomas
and
Porto
|
Rico
as
the
registered
mail
for
New
;
York
will be cl sed
tolay at
400
p. m.
|
since
the mail
by the
s.
s.
Guiana
will
|
reach
New York about
the same
time as
that via San
Juan.
|
TSLEGRAMS.
;
ST.
CROIX STATION.
|
London,
Feb.
12th. —The
difficuliy of
J
l
obtaining ar adequate
supply of officers,
for
army
is
lincreasing.
The
causes
which
appzar
to have operated
in
dimiu-
ishing
the number
of candidates
are
set
forth by the committee
appointed
to
con-
sider the education
and
training of army
officers in their report just issued.
These
include
frequent
moves
of regiments
un-
popularity of service
in India, recent
cuts
in
establishments
involving compulsory
retirement
of officers,
reduction
of
vay
to
be
effective
in
1924
Ihe
reaction
after
the war,
heavy
fees
at the military
colleges
and
the
fact that
some
teachers
are
defiritely anti-mlitarist
end
recom-
mend
their
best
bays
not
to take
up
a
milit:ry career,
London,
Feb.
12th—The
next
four
dayvs
will see
an inte
se struegle
to pre-
vent
the
most
disastrous
strike
which
has
threatened
Britain
for
many
years
past.
The
Government
is certainly doing
its utiost
to bring about
peace
in
a
s
tu-
ation
which,
however,
has
grown
sud-
denly
more
serious
sinee
the
definite
ard
uncompromising
refusal
of the
deockers
to azcept
the offer made
by the
employ-
ers.
The
Government
realizes
that
there
is considerable
justice in the claim of the
employers
that
an
increase
of
two shill-
ings in
the
daily
waige
of
the
deckers
would
mean
that
British worts will be
un-
able
to
complete
with
those
of
the
Con-
tinent,
where
the cost
of handling
car-
goes
is very low.
[Kvery possible
pressure
is being brought
to bear
to get the two
pai
ties together.
when it will be
possible
to
formulate
other
proposals
which
in
tuin
may
be
submitted
to
the
Minister
of
i.abour,
Labour
elaims
that
the
trouble
has
arisen
largely through
tie
fact
that
shipping comvanies
paid dividensof nine
percent
on their
share
capital§last
vear
and
they
further ciaim
that
this
should
be
increased
in
as
much
as
a
large
amount
it
was paidon
watered
stock.
The
companies
on the
other
hand
maintain
that
these
fizures
are
misleading
and
that
the actual
dividend
were
at
least
twe points
lower than
the fizure
claim-
|
by the strikers.
Rome,
Feb.
13th.-Count
Giovanni
Mas-
nomi,
the
newly
appointed
Ambassador
to
represent
ltaly
at
Moscow,
left
for
the
Capital
last
nmight.
He
is
a trained
diplomat, and
entzred
the diplomatie
ser-
vice in 1913,
:
Paris,
Feb.
13th—A
new
airplane
ser-
vice between
Toulouse,
France
and
Dak-
ar,
West
Africa, is
to be started
in April
Working in eonjunction
with
the
steam-
ship lines, it
will shorten
the
time
for
transmission
of
mails
between
Europe,
South
Africa and South America
by
nine
days.
The service
will be carried
out
by
sixty planes,
a like number being held in
reserve.
London,
Feb,
13th.—A football referee
was lynched
at Luganoe,
Italy, according
to a Central News despatch
from Geneva,
for giving a decision
unfavourable
to the
League
team.
lhe
despatch
staies
that
the erowd
rushed
on to the field,
seized
the referee and did him to death.