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that the Committee meet after the meet- ing of the Council to select a Chairman so as to be able to proceed to business. | The Chairman: I bring up the resig- | nation of 2nd Member for Christiansted Country District (Me Kay) which I have | read to you, I lay the matter before you for decision. : \ Member Canegata moved thatthe re- 4 signation be accepted. i The Chairman: The member hasserv- | ed six years aundis entitled to resign if | he so desires. | Member Canegata’s proposal was put | to the vote and it was unanimously car- | ried that the Member’s resignation be | accepted. . | The Chairman remarked: The neces- | sary notification will be sent to Govern- ment. ‘ There being no further business the | Chairman declared the meeting closed | at 4.45 p. m. j LEOCAL. | There will be a meeting of thé Colonial | Council at 1 p.m. today. As thisis the | last mceting before the retirement of Governor Oman, His Excellency will probably embrace the opportunity to take leave of the assembly. | Electric light is being installed in | Government House. The fixtures in the Council Hall are exquisite and elaborate and greatly enhamce the imposing- ness of tbat historic room which has | been further decorated with portraits of President Harding and other great men | " 7ho have been heads ot the nation, these pictures being hung on the walls where the mirrors used to be in former years. The electric wirinz is the work of our dexterous Telephone Manager H. Berg. No Porto Rico nor States mail has come in as yet, and it is understood that the schoorer Juan Cruz sailed from St. Tho- mas for Frederiksted at 1 p.m. yesterday. The Irdustrial Band prepared to de- liver a concert on the wharf last night but owing to some mishap light could not be obtained in the bandstand, so the band tramped through the principal streets playimg, and followed by a jolly crowd. The popular serial The Lion Man will be continued at the Christiansted The- atre this evening. See progamme in this issue. ‘ - EDITORIAL. The agenda for the Colonial ZCruncil meeting oi today includes the intreduction and first discussion of the budget for *the comimg fiscal year, and it is popularly desired suggested to members to be liberal-minded when 51 CRtii 1x & v . passing on t-e appropriations for sub- . ~ sudizing the local musical organiza- ; tions. The amounts already granted are { but evidences of reengnition, and they have been thankfully accepted as such, ' but if these bands are to be maintained ~ on anything like asteady footing, more - monaey is necessary. The Native Brass . Band, the oldest organization of the kind ' in this island has just secured a set of | new instruments at an outlay of sever- ' al hundred dollars, in order to better ' acquit itself before the public which is ' not unlike the publie of other p'aces and . makes no allowance for the fact that ' .the organization is altogether dependent ' upon the private initiative of its leader - and members for existence. These men . have shown great ability to preserve uni- 'ty and keep the institution alive during . many years of sharp vicissitudes and adversities and it is due them that the ' publie, through its representatives, . evince some really tangible appreciation ~ for the efforts expended to provide public . entertainment, apart from consideration . of the financial aid now needed. 'Tis true . the expenses of the Muanicipality are ' numerous, but in rising to this occasion the public fezls an obligation torelieve the hard working members of the Native Brass Band of a personal debt of some . eight hundred dollars incurred to ad- | vanee the civic interests of 'he com- ' munity. This matter is put up for the | serious and¢ careful consideration of | every Council member. The public . trusts to the Council to make good. * S T | TiuLEGRAMS. | ST. CROIX STATION. | Washington, April 12th.— The final . rejection of the Versailles League of | Nations by the United States Govr. l has oprociaim:l © a2 world today by i President Harding in a solemn pro- | nouncement of the foreign policies of | his administration. Speaking briefly | before the new congress assembled to | write a programme of political and | economic reconstruction, the President i declared the accaptance of ihe League | would be nothirg short of a betrayal | of the wandate of the November elec- | tions. Instead, he asked for a con- . gressional declaration of peace, and for | a ratification ol those portions of the | Versailles treaty which protect speci- | fically United States rights and inter- | ests in the war settlement. The exis:- | ing League of Nstions, world-govern- | ing with the super-powers, this repub- | lie will bave no part, he said. ''ltis | only fair to say to the world in general | and tn our associates 1n particular that | the League Covenant can have no | sanctlon by us’”’. [he declaration was . answered by a tremendous vemonstra- " tion, in which republican senators and . representatives led, while most of their . demoeratic colleagues sat silent and un smiling. While weighing the words of the chief executive the senitorial group of treaty irrecencilables tonight were claiming a complete victory, predic- ting that even the poriions of the treaty endorsed by Mr.Harding would never re- ceive senate approval. In his reccom- mendations for domestic legislation, the President gave great attention to tariff and tax revision and to the railway situ- ation,though he endorsed a list of lesser measures, which congressional leaders decided might prolong the special session nntil the snow fiies. He also took occa- sion in his address, of nearly an hour,to declare faith in a maintained Merchant Marine and in the principle of armament reduction, without asking for legislation on either subject. An-emergency ta- riff to correct serious disorders in the United States industry was placed at the head,at the President’s request, and witnin an hour after he had fin- ished speaking the *House Ways and Means Committee agreed to reject tomor- row the emergeny measure passed at the last session, and voted by President Wil- son. For the permanent tariff measure that is to be framed later., Mr Harcing made no specific suggestions, except that it followed the principle of vrotection. London, April 13th.—Great Britain’s Triple Alliance of Labour will call its members from their points at ten o’clock on Friday night, it was announc- ed here this morning at 11 o’cloek. This decision follows the inability of the National Miners Federation to reach” an agreement with the mine owners and the Govt. for the settling of the miners’ strike, which began on April Ist: the Triple Alliance is made up of the Min- ers Federation, baving a membership of 800,000, the National Union of Rail- way men with 30,000 members and the National Federation of Transport workers with as its members a large number of Unions, waich have a mem- bership of close to 80,000. It has been estimated that if the Aliiance should call a strike there would be nearly 4 mil- lion perscon: idle in Great Britain as a result. The dec sion 10 sirike was reach- & unanimously by the Transport work- ers and Railwaymen, Mr. Thomas Geu- era Secretary of the Railwaymen’s Union said afier this worinings aieeting, **l'his walkout’’, he declared, ‘‘will take piace at ten o’clock on Friday nigh.. Many other Uunions hive sent apolica tions to join the sirike anu ihese are being considered.”’ L.ondop, April 13th.— About 50 pei- cent of the seamen’s and firemen’s union, a member oi the i'rigle Alhance, which is taking a ballot on the quesiion of striking, bLave thus iar cast Lheir votes and President Haveiock Witison ol tae Uniun Hlui&)U[iUt‘d this afternoon Lhiat the majority of those who irad voted were against a strike. The Cardiff branch of the Union, one o! its 'mos important branches, voted 266 for a:n . 593 against a strike.