, 1908-01-11

is nothing else to be done, than that The
Public steps III at once and has what is
necessary done nj once, at the expense of the
neglecting party if here should be proved
any further-goine transgressiou, then the
Court can go further. In the way it is here
proposed, the neglecting party may with i'm
punity allow the fines to run on the one after
the other, meanwhile the evil to be remedied
is not remedied-Next as regards s 4, the
idea there expressed had his sympathy ut
the same time he could not see how Govern
ment could un Iertake such a task it
would ut least and by all means he
necessary that Government should have
the assistance of an Expert, or an Inspector
who could keep constant eve with cotton
paintings and whenever necessary report
and guide Government and warn and advise
growers such Il man should be not only
Inspector, hut II man thoroughly under
standing the cotton cultivation and all the
different drawbacks attending same and the
remedies, a man having previous knowledge
of the Mite. Next again, it appeared to
him, without wishing to enter further into
the matter, that it would be pretty hard to
do away with what may be a poor mans
crop, in the interest of cotton growers at
la sc, without offering him at least some
compensation. Snch ought of course to be
gl'en with greatest care, first Of all not to
such an extent, that it could pay people to
foster Blister-mites but on the other hand.
II you sacrifice % mans property for the
general benefit, it would be unfair not to
offer him at least some compensation. The
Question is q difficult one, which touches the
right of property and we must be very
careful in dealing with it. The whole mat
ter IS one which deserves to be thoroughly
sifted and examined by a Committee and
if the Council appoints such a Committee,
be hoped that they will do Government the
honour to confer with Government for
there must be a safeguard when moving for
penalties i'll a case like this, that we do not
go beyond what is tenable by law and Gov
eminent would then provide such assist
ance. We may all easily agree&Ipon this,
that something has to be done in this mat
ter, and that whatever has to be done must
be done speedily; he helleVd that nothing
can be achieved without an expert Inspec-
tor it is at once evident, that in the long
run it cannot be permitted to one man by
allowing an unnatural state of things in his
cotton grounds to give rise and spread to a
common calamity:
4th Member for Christiansted's Country
District (~ScitzcJj would recommend mea.
sures against an evil like the one thredten-
ing US now, but it is necessary that this
Draft on measures against blister mite be
thoroughly examined by a Committee, and
III order to obtain proper views and as many
opinions as possible on the different ques-
tious, he would suggest that that Committee
calls a meeting of planters and cotton grow
erS, so as to arrive at some agreement and
meet also Governments views. As regards
the lst June, he must agree VITA His Elk
c~ellency, that no date at all should lie
fixed in that respect, but it be left for
decision according to the existing cirtum-
stances each year. He had received a
letter from Il Cotton Grower on the matter
mentioned on the Draft before us, and
with the permission of the Chairman he
would beg to read it the letter was read
as follows =
Mary's Fancy,
Dee. 9th 1907.
E. Svitzer Esq: