, 1889-12-28

Expenses OIL for Governors salary ETC..
Just becanSe they belong elsewhere. II
che people OF Denmark and the Colonial
Office suppose that we had that legislative
powWr. which they say we can no longer
posscss or exercise because we have no
finances, what right have they to turn
round end deprive as of $4,000 and then
refuse 10 even a consultative voice on the
way in which they are used solely by the
Government ? 1t appears that what Is
right one side should be right the other
side too. Ifthey at home say, we. have to
pay $4,000 more for you, therefore you
can't have any say in that respect, certain.
~ we could with greater justice say, you
at home dispose of $4,000 of our money,
why shall you have all the SPY, and we
here have nOneg Why shall we here lose
that little shadow of privilege which we
had in reference to our money and our iu-
stitutiOnsf The Bill says we shall. No
thing more arbitrary or deSpotio could be
planned and brought before an Assembly
of public menl As long as we contribute
$4,000, weshOuld certainly have every right
at least a consultative voice, if nothing
else hut the present Draft says No
but still, the money is to be spent for pur-
poses, which the very Home Government
admits are foreign to our Colonial Budget,
and which he thought it was unjust to take
money from lis to cover. Then again, the
Colony is to be turned into a Municipality:
hut what is intended thereby, is perfectly
vague and underlined it would be necessa-
~ to make additions and amendments to
bring the thing in any sort of workable
order; us it is now there is no possibility
OF this proposal working satisfactory or at
all;-and he would beg His Excellency to
explain what are the rights to be given this
Municipality Are we to have the same
rights rs Municipalities in Denmark At
present we nave not equal rights with them,
Will our produce be on the same footing as
produce from Jutland? We Ought-tO have
had that position long ago, rs the only diff
ference is that the water is wider between
us and Denmark proper; no part tOt DEN
mark has to pay heavy duties on produce
when imported from thence to Copenhagen
for instances. but which we have to pay
besides 500 export duty here. And again
in Denmark the revenues Of the Mnnicipaii-
ties are collected and accrue into o COM
moi chest. and they have q right to send
representatives to the Diet. and who can
say how the money is to be spent; how are
we to be represented on the Diet, If this
bill be passels He would beg in view
OF all what has been stated to recon.
AAVHA w UuO OONnOu w 0OOpt VuS OOM-
mittee's Report; as far as he sees,
there could be nothing for the Council
to do than to reject the Draft. Every
one who has studied the Draft, with
one voice declares that it is not worth
to be accepted, and that the Com
munitv would be far better without it.
He believed the Committee has done
nothing but it's duty he for his part had
signed the Report, because he found moth
ing Objectionable in it, but he believed
and had said, we should go much further
than we have. When His Excellency
says or implies, that the Committee is
unwilling to make any sacrifices, he
(Hewitt) would say, he was at a loss to
know what sacrifices His Excellency
wants; tor the colony is and has been
making sacrifices from year to year; for
we have paid upwards Of $2OO,0 900 a year
to keep up,-what 3 An elaborate and
unnecessary Administration, which the
Government forced upon us and would
keep up at our cost, therein including
Military Expenses and Pensions, which
we had no obligation to pay. We have
had a reasonable right to expect also the
Exportduty removed; but not a stir has
been made i'll that direction. II it were
the Intention to destroy the Colony,-Or
to be relieved of the Colony, to- get rid
of the Colony, no better way of doing
that could have been found than that
followed in this Draft; for The sure
consequence will be that planters will be
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