, 1908-02-26

District (Schnlegeloao) SAID, in Introducing
TINS Report on bellait of the Committee, he
would beg on his own behalf aud on that of
the other prepayment (Nielsen) to withdraw
the original Draft of Ordinance, in favonr of
the one from the Committee, which he re-
commended to be adopted by the Colonial
Cou Gil.
End C~rownmember ICoards) begged to be
allowed to say, first in reference to the mea-
sure IN itself to counterfeit the spread Of the
blister leaf mite among the young Industry,
that he found it the right measure III the
right direction then again he would also
say, that it is a duty we owe ourselves and
those engaged in the cotton cultivation to
use repressive measures against the blister
mite but at the same time it could not be
ignored hat there was no sympathy in ia
YOUR Of the detailed measures proposed IN
the original Draft the prescribed time for
destroying all cotton at the time on the
fields, the heavy penalties, and other strin-
gent rules Had served to make the measures
unattractable it WIS therefore o ge-
neral wish expressed at a large meeting of
cotton growers and others in the community,
that that original draft should be repressed
and not furthered the Committee is in &C.
cordance with the sentiments expressed at
that meeting when emphasizing that it
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themselves to protect their own interests,
and that this is decidedly done best by leaV-
ing it to every grower to get rid of the mites
by counteracting of their own accord any
spread of the disease; at the same time, as pow
OF must be vested somewhere I'd give ln]unc-
tlOns to that effect, when those interests are
not sufficiently strong or can not be protect
ed properly and as it is q rule existing in
der Road Service that work left undone
when demanded by public authority
can be executed for expense of the in
dividual by the public authorities, a sys-
tenn of the same kind is proposed here It is
considered not necessary to provide strin-
gent measures; at all events the Draft will be
brought in for revision before the end of the
year, and any defects or Objectionable points
might then be remedied, The questions arising
will be discussed and decided by d Commits
zion of 5 cotton growers and will meet with
due consideration. With these remarks he
would beg to recommend the Draft.
The original Draft (by Schmiegelow and
Nielsen) was withdrawn and no one took
it up.
1st Member for Frederiksted (Coulter)
would say he is in full sympathy with tho
motion and the desire to counteract the
threatening evil only in regard to s 2 would
he state, that he himself AMI 9th ers be
sides, entertain some doubts as to the pro-
liability of the plan of a Commission of five
being likely to lead to any result he had
heard it said that we experience great diff
Guilty in finding men willing to admit of any
superiority of Judgment or knowledge in
cases like these, and he has heard it said
that if it be SO difficult to find ono man
possessing knowledge of tie entire matter.
how much moro difficult would be to find
five such men if 2 were found obiectiona-
BILE, 5 would be found five times moro OBJ
jectionable therefore, at the Meeting at
Lower hove it was proposed and carried
that there should be appointed one redl
EXPERT. There are several other more or less
Objectionable points i'll this Draft, but on the
other hand the provision in s 4 Oh the reYi-
sion of the Ordinance within one year, or
before the expiration of 1908, must serve to
RECONCILE 0ne to the shortcomings, Which
within that time will have been clearly de-
monstrated and be romedied: He had no
personal interest whatever in the matter,
but in the interests of the young cultivation
he could not but entertain sympathy for
measures; even if but temporary, to prevent
cotton cultivation being crippled; and he
would recommend the Draft particularly
in contiection with the other proposal for a
iHoc,nitioa ON fhn utfainment Of COtfpn Ey-