, 1894-04-25

"ONA" 1OS I0'NNA -
had Overstepped the limits of the Rules for
speaking, but he had believed that as the
Budget itself is on for discussion too, some
remarks on it would not be out Of place in
reply to the former remarks from the honora-
bic Crown member.
3rd Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (HewitD said, the honorable Crown
member (Lavaetz) had spoken Of his use of
the word conscientious he had intended to
explain the reasons why h. used it, but aS
End. Member for Frederiksted's Country Dis
trict (Black Wood) had already mentioned al
that be would have said, he would not state
more on the matter. The honorable Crown
Member also objected to his (Hewltt's) use
of The words r0ting to order; he did not know
if he was quite correct in using the word, but
be thought that he was justified III doing 50.
1t has become the principle fol- q number OF
years here of late, when the Budget and
Money Bills are laid on the table, that if the
Colonial Council say yes to every thing, it is
all right and good, but if the Council happen
to say NO-why, no notice is taken of this
vote, but the measure is carried for all. IF
the honorable Crown Member had always
been in the Council he would. have had full
chance to see he truth of what had lust been
stated Of course, the honorable Crown Mem
Der is but a new member; the future will
show if will deviate from the general ha-
bit when Crown Members vote on the Govern
ment measures. The honorable rown Mem
Der had also spoken of the inadvisability OF
refusing the Budget now, when we have
Governor but His Excellency is aware and
the Council too, that His Excellency has no.
thing much to do with this Budget; His Exa
cellency has met this Budget ready when he
came, and, moreover, the same Objectionable
features are present here again, as in former
5000 z~I I
if it be a new Governor. He (Hewitt) had
already mentioned that it can be no pleasant
position for His Excellency to come and meet
things as they are; but it is for him to use
his energies to remedy the evils and we all
hope and trust that he will do his best but
it is not for the Council now to undo what it
had just done, because we have &. new Cover.
nor; it is rather necessary that the new Cover
nor should at once be posted up with the
state of affairs, that he may not after
wards say he was hot aware thereof. If,
again, the honorable Grown Member had
read the Committees Report and the Coun-
ciPs Representations on the Budget for 1890
81 he would have seen at once, that every
thing had already been done which he
recommends us to try but the after results
have also proved that it was al in vain and
we have no reasonable cause to expect that
it will be otherwise, if we even repeat the
trials SO often made previously. The only
thing in which he could agree with the hon
orable Grown Member is where he too finds
the Budget and matters connected Herewith
to be not as they should be. 1t cannot be
expected that we shall now pass this Budget;
further dis cussion is almost useless, and he
would recommend that we proceed with the
voting.
3rd Crown Member awastz) would merely
make this short remark, that the matter Of
conscience is of course a question depending
on the indiYidual himself, and hence, no man
can speak of another's conscience. He be.
lisved too, that a Crown Member is not the
same as a Government Member, and from
that view, then, ii would be but natural for
him to show that it is not in the interests of
the Mother Country to continue paying for a
colony, and for which the Mother Country
gets no returns, not even thanks: 1t is true
that he could not consider the Budget as
being in a good state but to ARRIVE at any
better result, VIZ must first alter the laws and
ordinances on which it is based.
The Chairman would beg to say, that, in so
far as it would seem that the honorable 3rd
Member for Frederiksted' Country District
Hewitt was under the impression that the
last Budget for the Colony which the Colonial
Council did not V tie upon, has been SANCTION
ed by His Majesty, thai is not so according