, 1872-08-28

money and the greater part of the salary
should be betrayed by the Statetreasury,
and only a smaller portion Of the salary
betrayed by the Colonial Grsasury, l Mem
Der, Sarauw, held that, if the Military Elk
penses were assumed by The Statetreasury,
1t would follow as a consequence that a por-
ton Of the Governors salary should also be
assumed by that Treasury. The Com
mission for St, Thomas had no objections
to the arrangements here proposed, provi-
ded only the Governments seat be in St.
Thomas.
From this, then, | draw the following
differences
/, that at least 1 Gentlemen wiz: An
,hon, Du Bots, CijnJiuen, Jdrs) who ore
at present Members of the Colonial Coln-
Gil have IN June 1870 declared as their
opinion, that even in the event of the
Chief Government remaining in St. Croix,
the expense OF table money should not rest
on this Island. But it follows, that if the
Island ought tC be lid Of table money even
if the Governor in Chief were residing here
(aod to which they solely alluded as is evil
dent tiom those GentIemen's wishing to
throw the expense thereof on the State
treasury, 50 much the more ought the IS
land to be rid Of table money when the
Governor does not reside here, when we
have only a President & distinctly disa-
vow any intention to empty Kun en-
S~piiIemand,'D Aud as the Statetrcasury
viii not allow the President here money
Tor his table use, there is no other way 10
be id Of it than by refusing the grant for it
from the public chest. | see, however, that
with a handsome regard for consistency and
d'corum Messrs. JarS, Anthon. and Dubois
now vote for table m0uey,-tabie money
by all means.
2, that Messrs Jurs, Anthem and Sarauw
have in June 1870 been Of the opinion that
there should ouIy be enc Governor for all
three Islands, and that the pest as Prcsi.
dent should be abolished as a special Chief
Magistrate post, the Governor residing al
ternately in ST. Croix aud St. Thomas.
Now, the Chief Government having been
removed by Royal Resolution to st. Tho
mas; St. CroiX should agreeabIy to that
proposal have been relieved of the Presi-
Dental Administration, to which under
other circumstances the Island would have
been subject. But Jurs and AnthOn have
now voted beforehand for en- Ordinance
whereby a Presidential Authority is esta-
bIished in future, and bis salary, table
money etc. fixed, irregardiess Of the ex-
pected new Colonial Law.
3, that the Minister of Finances has en-
gagged and promised to submit a Draft Of
modifi cations in the Colonial Law based in
all essential respects on the recommends
tionsofthe Commissions, and to effect the re-
quisite changes in the Administration ac-
cording to the suggestions Of the Commits
sions, reserving always the Colonial Conn
CTS free cote and decision. The chief mo-
difcation or change proposed, as sho vn
above was: q, the establishment Of one gen
eral Government and the abolition of the
post as President (in st. Croix) b, the de-
fragment of the greater portion of
the salary and the whole table money by
the Statetreasury, of course thereby i'm
plying, that even if a Presidential post
were to be retained, there should be no ia
BILE money. We all know full well, that
even after the arrival Of Governor Billie
here the answer one generally got on en-
curing into the tendency of the plan of