, 1872-05-15

and may be said to have adopted it after very
able debates thereupon, adding only the prOviSO
that st. Croix pays to st. Thomas a proportion
of expenses on The Government in common a
proyiSo which seems to me but just and equita-
Bile. Otherwise, the measure suits St. Thomas
as a matter Of conrse, and l shall therefore
treat only of st. Croix, where quite the contra
ry is the case.
Yes, this new old state of things does neither
suit nor please US in ST. Croix, as any one may
see and hear for himself from oral discussions
and articles in the Avis. We are to live under
a doublr Government, a Presidency here, and
bis Superior in St. Thomas, and WE shall con-
Sequently have to endure all The same p~rocraS-
t~ination, circumlocution, and, in a word, mis-
rule, which from he same reason caused St.
Thomas for so long a period to be dissatisfied,
and with all this, we shall have to pay the same
as form rly, nay even more, for this sort of Gov
eminent in this Island. 1t would surely be a
wonder if any sensible man here would approve
of this form of administration For the same
money as proposed in the draft, we may have
here an independent Governor for this Island.
and this would be far preferable to a double
Government; and for a great deal less money,
We may have a Secretary acting on the part
and under the orders of a Governor residing in
St. Thomas. Agood dealha been said for either
OF these plans, but hardly any body out of the
circle of officials is for q President as proposed.
This plan ought to be unhesitatingly rejected by
the Council.
l do think that Governor Birch's confedera-
tion-scheme should be REQUIRED to again, if only
as a trial the plan had been matureIy reflect
ed upon by Mr.. Birch, who was a profound
thinker, and he had during his last stay in Lon
don held a conference on it with the British
Colonial Minister, who encouraged him to its
adoption also Minister Fenger approved of it.
This plan was certainly much more practic Il,
more sensible and far less costly, than Governor
Bille's scheme.
There has in our Colonial Council been heard
voices about obtaining subsidies from Denmark
toward d~efraying our local expenses, some one
mentioning the salary &c. to the future Pre-.
sident. another those to the military officers
and they seemed to agree therein, that such
requests 10 the Danish excheQuer would be
readily asSented to by the Kings Government
and the Diet. l think otherwise, but l may be
mistaken But should there be the good will
toward US in Denmark which Judge Rosenstand
and Capt. Raupach and others suppose, then wa
should be very wrong indeed to ask for any
subsidies to such purposes as aforementioned
If Denmark will help US out, she could do it in
a far better, far more efficient and more practi
cal manner. People here cry over the military
EXPENSES anu VIC ADMINISTRATOR Expenses, lei
Denmark help US to sweep them both away
along with the whole of the military and The
whole Presidency, or whatever NAM our future
administration may bear. If she is willing to
help US, Denmark can send out and keep here a
gunboat with about one hundred men onboard,
and that %gunboat, besides running constantly
between the Islands, conveying post and func-
~tionaries, thereby rendering it easy and simple
for a Governor residing in the one Island to
transmit his orders to the other, will with its
crew of trained men give US, at least in this ISL
land, all the military support or protection we
will ever need. A telegraph might also be
established between this and St. Thomas and
the collective cost of a gunboat and a telegraph,
to be borne by Denmark, would be no greater
than the expenses, so often spoken Of as proper
~ to be betrayed from home, viz those for the
Governor or President and for the Military.
Could such a thing be effected, there might
perhaps be appointed a Government Secretary
in this Island, but it would hardly be necessary
except for a time.-Whpn the Colonial Council
is to be remodeled, it ought tobe shapedsomewhat
like our former Burgher-C Council, the abrogatiOn
of which and mergingi it in the impractical present
Colonial-C Council, was a sad loss to the Island
and it's best interests. The new Council to be