, 1890-01-01

from fees on Burgh6r BRIEFS etc., SI,zo1'oV,
be transposed from the Communal Budget
to the State Treasury's Budget.
The Speaker said the figures given by
the last honorable Speaker quite CORE
spond with his (the ~Speaker'S) statements,
when taking each item on the budget Tor
the current year, and be had also arrived
at the conclusion that S20,OOO Tor the EX'
mort duty is too high a figure for even Ill
q very exceptional good year, viz year
before last, only 100000 came in from ex-
mort duty :; and we can't reckon always on
such wears AS regards the proposed amend
ment. which the honorable Member had
brought forward, he for his part did not
think it recUmmendable; but it might
~ brought in for the event that the
diet against the wish Of the Council
gives q Budget for the Municipality on
fhe basis of this Bill that would GER
tainly afford the means OF getting a
balance AS regards the Councils
position with reference to the state
treasury's expenses, 1t appeared TO MN
tn he no more than equity, that when
fine Island contributes S94, 600 towards
those expenses, that then the Council
should nave some say as To now tne
money is spent, if nothing more. Inc
time might come when it shall be neceS-
sarv TO reduce that sum, and the Commu-
nity should then have a vote, anG as 1t
is not possible, as shown i'll the report,
to have a Representative in the Diet, the
only wavsis through the Colonial Council.
He would again recommend to the Coun'
ell to adopt the Committees BeporC' as
it is, and as Il subsidiary proposal we
might embody the amendment from the
End Member for ClriS'lanSted; out ne
would beg to add, that he scarcely
thought that the purport OF the amend
ment would meet the wishes of the ON
mnnitv. fht there you hear but one voice,
that the power given by the grant Oh 0he
King should .she maintained.
I'D Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (Hecitb said, he believed, that
ayon if fine amendment suggested by 2nd
Nnmber for ChristianSted Oemmlng)
we're added, that would not meet the
defciency which We surely will be having
nm the budget for the Government has
nicked out for the Municipality Such
itams as must necessarily be shortly III
creased and will ever be on the Increase
As for the amendment suggested by 2nd
Monther for ChrlStianSted, he (HeWltt)
mist say it is rather amusing TO near
the honorable Member put the price OF
sngar at $3.50 the cwt; he woul ask
Whit is the tariff valuation now ?....
TANNING: S2.6Ol. Well if Sugars could
fEaan nj that figure, 500, he would
cav the honorable Member IS a go0u
nrophet But he was afraid they would
not and we will not be getting S26,OoO
exnort duty and, moreover, as stated
il the Report, it is impossible to make
amendments to get the Bill or the mea-
s,,rp to suit. He would, however, reserve
his final personal opinion on the amend
ment.. There is one point more TO Whlcl
he would call attention, viz; the list OF
debtors to be transferred to the STATE
Treasury: the greater part OF them are oIu
claims. the debtors dead or gone bankrupt;
in fact the claims are mostly not worth the
naper: why bring them up now? sure IL
wnnId not be worth the while That the
state Treasury gets those claims uhuer
such circumstances
The Sneaker would, in reference to a re
marx from His Excellency that no estate mas
cone ont of cultivation Oh account Oh the
faxes here, beg to say, that, as already
shawn by the Com mittee, it will be lmpossl-
hIe TO increase taxation on real estate, ana
the best. proof of that is the.decadencellnithe
valne of property, which is even greater
than is stated in the Report, for 1t Is well
known that EstatesIhave been sold orprices
below even / their former value, and therefore
tits impossible to expect they can bearmore
tavas, AS for town properties they are al
readv too heavily taxed. And as regards
+ +bo+ tho taxes AVE not prevented