, 1889-10-30

has any real Importance to the proper
understanding of the matter; a translation
of that will be provided, if necessary; but
as all Members have the Budget and the
Budget has a translation of all the items
OH Voucher l, it would only be necessary
to place the one alongside of the other, in
order to obtain knowledge of No /. The
other vouchers have less Importance. He
would consider it mad viSable of the Coun.
Gil to postpone the matter today ; we have
already heard that the Minister attaches
great Importance on the Councils Reports
being ready as soon as possible; therefore
he hoped that this Council would not post
pOne the matter more than what is neceS-
sary.
4th Crownmember lF0ber) said he had
of course meant. that the Council should
first have discussed the matter, before
considering the question of a Committee.
But he would also recommend that the
discussion takes place to-day /; Members
have had the documents in hands for
several days moreover, we all know that
His Excellency will be- leaving here to-
morrow for st. Thomas, and it would be
desirable to give His Excellency an oppor.
tunity to explain matters that might come
forward.
3rd Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (HeVitO in reference to the re.
marks from His Excellency on the com.
pairing of the Budget with the Vouchers,
would say, that as long as Members DOM
know Danish, to find out the correspon.
ding points in the two papers, a cOmpari.
son would not help mo recover the Vouch.
er varies, as far AZ he can see. He would
for his part beg to say that if the Vouchers
be not all translated and furnished, he could
not uaPtakn in the discussions
4th Member for C~hristiansted's Country
District (RGphGeD After the remarks from
His Excellency we can understand that
Ills ExcellenCY desires tho matter discuss.
ed now and to get an idea Of What are
the views of the Members aud Members
wishing to have Il ose Vouchers could get
them by next. Meeting. We areAll of lis busy
III our way, and would not willingly meet
i'll vain moreover His ExcellenCy leaves
Tomorrow, and we could not have al other
Meeting soon after this.
On the proposal from 3rd Member for
Frederiksted's Country District HewitntIat
the discussions be- postponed uAtii trans
latiOnS have been obtained, being put to
vote, there were 6 Members for postponing
and 10 for continuing.
4th Member for FredolikStpd'S Country
District (McDOnGld A couple years ago
duo'noI mdtCot very UedFIy dlIlcN 10 GnlS
was pushed through in this Council with
great speed and hurry this has since been
regretted; and this time we ought to be eau.
tlous to avoid giving cause OF regrets.
The Chairman said he did not see any
reason to hurry; the matter could be ready
for tur'he discussion in the Councils next
ordinary meeting.
3rd Member for ChriStiansted (StakemGnn)
agreed that we ought not to be ia u hurry
in dealing with this matter, which is much
too important. But it is right that the
Council should have the different views of
Members before proceeding to the election
of a Committee The Draft is in English
and the vouchers can be furnished later.
AS regards the Draft itself, he must
confess that he has not had sufficient time
to go through it thoroughly aud therefore
he could not go into details; he would how
ever make a few remarks. 1t had struck
him that the Draft jmtkeS no mention of
the guarantee for the Central Factory; if
the StatetreaSury do not assume that
Indebtedness, it will stiIli remain on the
Community and we would almost. be as
badly off AS before hence it would be we'll
for us to know, low it is to be with that
largel amounto of debt there can be no ques.
ton of the Community ever being
able to pay those S45, 900 and he would
beg to ask His Excellency how it is to be
with that guarantee. At present the State.
treasury holds a mortgage on all the prop.
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