, 1892-06-25

two Roads, it must have the responsibility,
but the Road not being a quarter obligation.
the estates cannot have the responsibility for
the original sum nor for any excuses.
The Governor The Council should be
careful how it votes in this matter. If tAe
Council follow the Committee there will be not
one cent granted for filling the Pond. As re-
CARDS what the honorable Bid Member for
Frederiksted's Country District had stated, q
bout the repairs to the piece of road inquestion
being done for 500, he would SAY, every
cent Of what is IN the Building Inspectors
Estimate will be required. AS for the
Bridge, Government cannot agree to remove
it; it has not been proved to be useless. On
the whole Government cannot agree to the
Committees proposals. From first, when the
matter was before the Road Commission,
a suggestion in the direction as now urged,
might perhaps have led to some arrangement;
but as the Home Government has already
sanctioned the plan, it will not do to remove
it. He would only repeat, the Council
should be very careful when now voting.
Bird Member for Frederiksted's Country Dis
trict (He0itt): Like as in every instance else,
the Council and practical men are denied all
credit for seeing into practical matters OF our
administration. The Council appoints a Com
mittee, they investigate and express their full
dIu Cduul0 N4CW vi ITO QuCStAOu, OuO .L1C1 We
are told we are all wrong, and it must 60 as
Government bids, or else we get no money.
We are all wrong His Excellency is the only
right man, and the only right thing is what
Government desires. He for his part, in the
face of what His Excellency just stated, would
beg to say that he hoped the Council would
not lend its vote to a measure that would be
harsh i in the extreme and entail a heavy bur
then on men who were free before.
The Governor supposed the Council is now
going to vote and he would beg before the
Council proceeds to do so, to repeat that the
Committee is wrong it is wrong when it
states that the Bridge is entirely useless, as
also witnessed by the Speaker that it was not
so meant next it is wrong when it states
that the filling of the pond is unnecessary as
alss admitted to-day, it is necessary for the
sanitary condition for the town Of Frederik-
sted it is wrong when it is stated that the
plan is extravagantly expensive, and it is
wrong when it is stated that the Committees
plan will cost less it will cost more. In short
not one word Of the Committees Report can
stand or will stand.
The Speaker: We have had a lengthy dis
cussion, but still we seem arfrom any result.
He did admit and will admit that the Bridge
is not WIDELY useless, but it is not suited for
abe practical purposes for which it is intended.
AS regards His Excellsncy's other remarks, it
might be so that the Report is framed in
terms a little too strong, but on the main it
keeps to the real points as they present them
selves to the Committee. In so far as His Ex-
c|ellency refers to the Road Commission, he
would say that the Commission might have
been under a misunderstanding and they
should have seen if it was justified in recon-
m~ending the filing up of the pond. In so far as
ii is maintained. that the new road can be made
cheaper, it is the question whether the In
spector's estimate will hold if there were
any guarantee Of it doing SO, it might be a
different thing; but to have the prospect Of a
heavy additional expense because the est
mates do not answer, is rather hard. 1t stands,
moreover, to reason that it must cost more to
pile two roads, than for one. But the one road
is sufficient; and if q new road is to be built
would s 20 of the Road Ordinance not argue
that the expense should be betrayed entirely
by the Treasury ?
The Governor: The enactments of s 20 Of
the Road Ordinance refer only to the instance
where new roads are to be made where they
were not before but here we have the rebuild
ing of a piece Of road that has existed long
time before.
1st Member for Christiansted (Creagh) must
confess that he did not understand much of
the present matter he knew very little of
the plans or the localities. But it seems strange
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