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that this mutter should be posiponed | for half a ye:r. : 7 2nd. Appeinted Member (Nol}) re- marked: Mre. Chairman. I think the time to make a start is right now; there are about ter cases waiting to have some | onz to, prosecute; apart from Lawyer I Stakemann t :ere is no oneelse that could | be commissioned to prosecute and that | 1s one of the reasons we nave at this time | to have a Government Atiornev. Every | wan on this isiand 18 his own atiorney; there should be one ceniral office vihere | people’ean go to for advice. There cer- talnly is need for a Gevernment /ttor- | ney. ' T'he Chairman would like to know whether the remarks made by Ist .Jdem- ber for r'red riksted Country Distret is | a propesal or a mere expression oi opin- ion? Ist Member to~ Freueriksted Country ! Distriet answered: An expression of opinion. Ist Member for Frederiksted Country Distriet (Andersen) would like to xnow if the Gove nment: Attorney isior St. | Croix only ? ; 2nd Appoiited Member (Noll) answer- ed,— For St. Croix only. Ist Member for Christiansted Country | Distriet (Stckemann) remarked: 1 also | think there might be some confii:t if | there is oue Government Atiorn:v for | St. Thomas and for 8t Uroix: there | mizht be sorie guestion on whieh they | may giv2 different opinions and if fol- lowed we .y have one matter cavried out in one way in the one island and in . another in ile siter isiuad. I think ir | one Government Attorney were appoint- | ed for both isiands it would be batter, , 2nd Appoirted Membe: (Noll) remark- | ed. Mr. Chairinan. These islands are | separate muuicipa-ities, and there are | numerous laws 1n St. Thomas that are | pot in existeace in St. Croix. [ under- | stand that throughout the history of | these islands .here has been an attocney for each, ' Ist Memb«r for Christiansted Country Disericr (3 asemann) pioposed a com- |, mittee of !ive members o ilnvesiizate | whether there eculdn’t be one Piosccut- | ing Attorneyv ‘or both islands. J 1t was then put to the vote and carried | that the bili b> furthered. ; “he Chatrpian then put the proposal | made by first Member so Christiansteq | Country Distsiet (Stakemmznn) to the | vote. f 9 members roted for; none against. | [73 be continied]. | OF[ICIAL NEWS. ’ December 19, 1918, | The Commendar of the Cruiiser ee- | land gave alincheon on board yester- | day to Gove 'noir Uman. | The Navy Department contempiites , assigning the U. 8. 8. MOHAVE, a 5 0. 4 500 kwß V | S larze Navy tug, to duty at the Naval Station, St. Thomas, about March. Hrederiksted, 19th Dec. 1919. "he s. s. ‘‘Manca’’ arrived here at 5.0 tlis morning. Passengers from New York—Mr. & Mrs Rernstein, Mrs. B. Klyvert and 2 children, Mrs. Rad- cliife and ¢hild, Mrs. C. Christensen and 2 children. From St. Thomas—Mr. W. Niolsen. Mr. George Craesir, Mrs. Mor- terscn., Miss Isaac and child, Mrs. M. Duacas and 2 children, Mr. E. Benjamin, M:. T. Ford, Mrs. J. Yanterpool and son, Mr. J. Archibald, Mr. A. Grant, Mr. W. ¥r «der ksen. After landing 4.200 packages, she left about midnight ior St. Kitis and other Windward Islands. Passengers for St Ki ts—Mr. & Mrs Jas. Mason. For Bar- bados- Robt. Armistrong, S. W. Bless. “he s. s. “’Korona’’ arrived here atll o’ciock p. m. from Windward Islands and left at 3 o’clock for New York via St. Thomas with the following passen- gers: for New York --Miss N. Schoen, Miss tlise M. Conton, Mr. A. C. Wirherspoon, Mr. A. F. Giecason, Mr. Geo. Finlay, Miss Thoresa Richards, Miss Huifina Sewer, Miss Cresita Sewer. For St. Themas -Comdr., O. J. Mink, U.S.N., Judge D. Noll, Mr. Harry Niel- sen, Mr. Oluf Nielsen, Mr. Zook. j§ TELEGRALLS ST. CROIX STATION. St. Thomas, Dee. 20th.—-The Wesiern Unon Company notity that registered adc resses in Canada and Newfoundland wil bo charged for on a basis of two dol ais and fifty cents per annum from the first of January 1920. Warsaw, Tiec. 17t .-—A new Polish Cakinet to succeed that headed by Ig- naca Paderewski, as Pramier and For- eigi: Minister, has been constituted with M. Skulski as Premier. T'ne policy on which the new min:istey will work includes agrarian reforms, a vigorous campaign against anarchy and subv-or- sive propaganda, and satisfaction of the essential elaims of,the workiag classes. Mexieo City, Dee. 17th.-—l'he reiase of Mr. William O. Jenkins, American Con- sular Agen* at Puebla, under bail, has re- moved ail motive for misunderstanding beti;een the Mexican and Unrited States Government rezarding the Jenkins issue, acecrding to th: reply of the lMexiean Government to the second American Noti:. The Mexican reply was handed <o the American Charge D’Affaires last evering. .0 lodon, Dee. 17th.—When Mr. T. P. O’C ‘nnor moved the adjournment of the House last pnizht over a raid on the Freeman’s Journal, the debate became hampered by the annvuoneement by Mr. MacPhersou, Chier Sceretary for lreland that he hoped the iwcmboers would re member thac ihe question was subju- | dice. Mr. O’Connor declared that these . acts of provoeation in lreland were the - result ofa plot to prevent the settle- . ment of the Irish question and recon- . ciliation of the Irish people. He implor- ed the House to realize the tragedy of | this mad poiicy. Mr. Adamson, the La- l bour Leader, associating the Labour Party ' with the motion, ceclared that while the | Party had nosympathy with the serious crimes perpetrated in Ireland, they be- lieved that the Government’s frequent . resort to methods of repression had a close conneection with these crimes. Mr. - O’Connor’s motion for adjonurmeni was . defeated by 161 to 55. Lounisville, Dee. 17th.—A way out has - apparently been found for distillers . caught with large stocks of liquor on ' hand, the Supreme Court’s de~ision hold- ' ing the plan as constitutional. A plan - was presented to-distillers today by re- | presentatives of steamship lines cperat- . ing services out of Charleston, Bruns- { wich Jacksonville, Savannah and Wil- mington, to Cuba, South America and Fu- - rope. It ecntemplates the imm diate ' shipment of liquor from liquor stocks in -~ Kentucky intimating that 39,000,000 gal- ~ lons are in bonded warchouses largely to ' Cuban ports for storage and subsequent re-sale in Cuba, or shipment to the rfor- ~eign countries. The freedom of southern ~ borts from ice, evidence their adequate storage freilities pending loading on ' board ship, tteir nearness to Cuba and the larger number of steamship lines operating to the island were nointed to as evidence that with railways and the United S‘ates shipping facilities the whiskey stocks could be ioved before January 16th, the time imit that the revernue department has planned on «x- --ports. NEwW YORK. Dee. 20th 1619. Klour, Blendad Clear St. Lawrence IFrand . pr. bri. $11.90 | Meal, Kiindried per 100 ths $3.70 | New Eeason’s Pork per brl. $45.00 | Heavy MNess Pork per bbl. $47.00 Sugar---Crystais (Confirmed by Brokers) ! per ICU lbs. $7.28, | Molasses 89 test priou Ibs. no quotation { Cotton, Middling Upiand, st | iverpool per | th. 26 25-100 d. | Exchang», New York and London, 60 | days’ sight $3.76 | kxebarce New York sne Icnden, s:oh r $3.804 | LoNDON, Dee. 20th 1919. | Sugur-Demerara Crystals dety puid pricc. i xed by the Royual Commizsion pel cwis | . 665, Ud. -o%s. od, | Museovade, 699/~ basis, fleating ierms in boad, Ditto dauty paid. 63:. 5. —36s. od, | Germaun Beet £B-/¢ £.o.b. no turti.or sales during the war , White Java Sugar, cif Uuriled Kirg- | dom ifarrives before 27th Lcwn ber &(/ | Dencrara Rua:, per gal. nominai. | Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per : ewt 1285, od. 130s. od.