, 1893-04-12

S4peCl0Q tnaL tnoy SnOulu auHpt the measure
but outside of them the Councils vote would
he was sure be unanimous.
End Member for Christiansted (StakemaxM)
said he had signed the Committees Report,
and would recommend it for adoption. Az
for he Governments letter Of 22nd inst. il
would seem from that, that it is% funeral we
are attending to-day, we are abont TO bury the
Budget. The Government looks upon the
adoption of the Committees Report as equal
to this. that the Council in future renounces
all right to deal with the ordinary Budgets
it is then, an old acquaintance whom we are
to-day attending to it's last resting place
before doing SO, it may be we'll for rs to see
what good the Budget has done; before part
ing as it were, lot US throw a glanca on tho
past. and see how we had it with our old Ac-
ouaintance. 1t is well known that the Colo
NAL Council occupies Itself the whole year
with scarcely anything but the Budgets the
many useful laws of Denmark which We stand
in need Of. are never extended the Council
has nothing to do with them it is as we as
asleep all the while, until we are wskensd up
by the Budget; every year;we get q little lively,
If the sleep from which we IRE awakened has
been Peaceful with pleasant dreams, the Coun
Gil, as during many years previously to the
two last ones. is quite pleasant and the bud"
ret il passed az presented. 1t is in reality g
Budget, lnaC is every ytdt Id1N WIZ SS
Council, although called a Draft a Draft i'm.
piles a thing in which changes can be made.
but in these Drafts OF Budgets the Council 10
not allowed to make any change whatever, it
should purposelv be called the Budget and not
the Draft. which the Council las to pass I'm.
TERED; if the Council is good natured, then
the onlything to be altered is the heading which
then reads he G uncil has passed and His
NJ iestv sanctioned. But if the Counol! seeing
the p,ssibIIties Of new taxation I. In. on the
already overburthened community, cannot
alt cether agree to the Budget. then matters
are not 50 agreeable; if the Council, viewing
the disability aud ufgency OF trying to re-
duce public expenditure. nOminates Q Com.
mttjee to propose retrenchments' ana II
the Council concurs in finding them feasible;
if as was the case two years ago,-the Com
mittee poes o work assiduouSly and earnest
w. and il the Council then moderately
K ems within the prescribed limits, votes
only for matters within the scope OF lS
granting power, but suggests that the 90
vernment would propose alterations IN other
branches based on laws or ordinances, ana
where retrenchmeats could certainly be
affected without detriment to the puolo al
ministration we are told that we have sx-
ceeded our power. If, 10 take another SIDE OF
the uicture. we refuse or reject anything
when G)VeF1ItEeIlL WAlIuo " k'NPO"SSt ~
vernment looks black, Members look black.
hud words are passed then we see the head
iny Of the Budg t changed; and then 1t roads:
The Colonial Council has passed and His
Majesty the King has sanctioned the Budget
With the following alterations. Ia virtue OF
s 50 Of the Colonial Law : AM those ~altsr'"
tons consist only in eplacing all what the
Council had rel ctel or struck out IN the
Draft as it was submitted md this is done
not under the pretrxt that the Council had
no right to vote, no. but because the sxPsn'
diture is placed I'm ler 5 81 of the Colonial
Law that settles the matt r. In that
way i, shows itself that the Council has
after all no VOC at all. 1t was always be.
lieved that The Colonial Council had a right
TO vote on all items in the Money Billie.
Jurists Of considerable ability who have
used the law. and among them the Trainer OF
the law, Governor Birch, q man we'll re-
nowned and well respected as second to none
here have never thought of using S61, u
never entered into their heads TO use It, ct
least never in ref renoe TO items on the
Money Bills but all of a sudden Gov ernmsnt
saws to the Council, No use to refuse those
expenses, we will pass them, neverthsless.
according to s 81. To-day we have before
us a Governments Letter, a curious speoi