, 1916-05-06

VIII be less than budGetted. The Budget
for the last year showed a very small sur
plus. Orr expenses are gone up. In
Revenue Eypeuli Deft.
Fcrs. FIRES. Frcs.
191O-11 814.989. 774,136. OS53.
19I1-l2 SS7, 1853. 8O7, O85. 80,37S.
l9l2-l3 760, 299. 917.946. 157,647.
19l3-14 799,734. 793,42S. 6,3o6.
l9}4-15 69J,942. 828,7I9 28777.
Ii we look ut the deficit this year $4,000,
we are getting in a very deplorabIe stare,
and if we do not put a stop 10 the increase
of expenses, tue Treasury will come into the
same state us before the pew Colonial Law.
Therefore it behoves US ON behalf of the
community to be very careful.
The hospitals expenses are necessary.
They are mostly due to the increase of pa
tients. But now it has com TO, that a ma
must be fed and sit down and do nothing;
but when the experts home say the patients
must not work, they don't know what per
sons are meant, it should be luld before the
Ministry clearly what persons were made to
work, it was not really sick persons, but pr
sons who suffered from diseases for which
the law compelled them to he put INTO hos
pital not SO much on account of the serious
ness of the disease bui in order to keep them
isolated.
The Building Expenses are |
have spoken about the Building Expenses
in the Municipal Committee, and Govrru-
ment some time ago made out some lnstruc-
lions for the Building Inspector fixing the
competency Of the Building Commission,
amoug other things deciding that ali estl-
mates should be sent to The Building Com
mission and furthermore no work be com
menced without the sanction of The Building
Commission. Nevertheless 2 months after
the regulations have come into force the
Building Inspector had forgotten them, he
acknowledged it, but it seems as if Govern
ment also had forgotten them. TIE Build.
ing Inspector sent in his estimate to Gov
eminent on some work at the hospital and
commenced it, there is now no more money
and the work is only half done. and now the
Building Commission is wanted to recon-
mend the additional means required to rom
plete the work. This is typical. Besides
the wages paid the foremen are too high,
$3.50 a day, it is human that they will
not hurry on the work. Over and over it
has been proposed to try job work. The
Building Commission has always been ex-
GUIDED; the Municipal Committee delegates
one member to the Commission, but he can
do nothing in the way the work is carried on.
4th Member for Christiansted Country
District (SchntiegeIoO). May | ask who is
the member?
lst Member for Christiansted Town
(Stakenadmn). l am the member. | will
soon give up expecting any change. [
think the Council will have to open it's eyes
for these unnecessary expenses.
/ shall now come to recommend an in
crease, which perhaps will sound strange to
some as have just spoken against the ex-
penses. 1t is a greater grant for policeman
jackson. Government has considered "a grant
of 20 dollars monthly for sufficient.
I am very sorry to see that a man like
F. c.. Jackson, who has served for nearly 38
years, should have been discharged III the
way he has been discharged. There is no en-
couragement for the other policemen, if one
of them can be discharged in the street with
out any real cause, as far as | can see. We
have asked for an investigation, in vain have
we asked in the Municipal Committee to do
the man Justice, but the Governor would not
agree to an investigation. The Governor
has taken it for granted that the man is
guilty. If Mr.. jackson has been found guilty