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Publicati üblication. ‘ T is hereby brought to pnblic notice , ' that the Government has, this date, ’ authorized Rev. THOMAS HANLEY, C.S.S. R., to perform civil religious | functions in the Municipality of St. | Croix. ? Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States ;St. Croix, 7 June, | 1921. i C. C. TIMMONS. i Government Secretary. Publicat: ' üblication. Tis hereby brought to public notice that | the Trade-mark shown below which | was registered in the United States Patent Office, Washington, D. C., on April 12, 1921, in the name cf The Texas Company, of Houslon, Texas, and New York, N. Y., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, and Trade-mark certificate No. 141,250 issued therefor, has this date been registered in the Office of the Govern- ment Secretary of the Virgin Islandsjiof the Unitad States at St. Thomas, in ac- cordance with the provisions in the regu- lations governing the registration }of Patents and Trade marks in the Virgin Islands, approved 30 Juune 1920. CiySuaiite Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States, St. Thomas, 20 May 1921. . 4. 1. GAFPNEY. Acting Government Secretary. | sot e Publication. LLL persons who may have ‘any ‘claim A or claims against the estate of the’ late John William Bernard of St. Thomas who died on the 20th. April 1921 are hereby requested to file same with this Court within 3 months from today.. No claim will be accepted after expira tion of said 3 months. ? The Dealing Court of St. Thomas and St. John, St. Thomas, June 6, 1921. e THIELE. Judge. EDITORIAL. The conclusion of the extract from the Congressional Record will be publish- ed in tomorrow’s issue, and the whole ST. LR Fx A NILS article will appear in Saturday’s Mail Edition a limited number of copies of which will be available at 3 cents each. LOCAL. Soaking rain showers have been fall- ing here since midnight and the atmos- phere is much cooled thereby. The 8. 8. Parima from St Kitts, homeward bound, arrived at and sailed from Frederiksted this morning. : Congressional Action In Vir- gin. Islands Affairs, Extract From Congressional Record 0f May 25,1921. Amendment Introduced By Senator Ken- yon IniThe Senate On May o e SRR, . ¥ PR WIDED, that no person owing al- legiance to any country other than the United States of America shall be eligi- ble to hold office as a member of«the- Colonial Councilsi of the Virgin Islands of the United States nor to hold any public office under the government ofsaia islands : Provided further, that theincome tax laws now in foree in the United States of America and those which may . hereafter he enacted shall be held to be likewise in force in the Virgin Islands of the United States, except that the pro- ceeds:of ‘'such taxes shall be paid into the treasuries of said istands. Mr. KENYON. Mr. President, as the Virgin® -Islands ave under the Navy in the matter of government, it seems. to me this is an appropriate time and place in the pending pill-to correct a situation in the Virgin Islands that has needed the attention of Congress for some time.- When the Virgin Islands were taken over by the United States from Den- mark it was provided that anyone re siding there who did not care to become a citizen nf the United States by cer- tain procedure could retain. his Danish citizenship. 1 think of all the inhabi- tants of the islands there were only somewhere around 30 in number who exercised that privilege. One of the individnals who retained his Danish citi- zenship edits a paper at St. Thomas which, IthinkI am fair in saying, is hostile to the United States. His utter- ances show no friendly feeling at least to this- country. He is a2 member and has been president es the colonial coun: cil of St. Thomas and St. John, which makes laws for the government of those islands. So we have the perfecily apn- amalous situation ofa Danish subject, a man who reiuses to become a citizen of the United States, and who has pro- voked much feeling against the United States by his paper, at the head of the council making laws te govern por- * tions of those islands. He is not now ihe head of the council, because his term has expired, but he has been re-elected to the council, as I understand. It ought not to be that a Danish subject could be a member of the council mak- ing laws for those islands. That ls what my amendment will prevent, In the second place, we are spending some $375,000 a year out of the Trea- sury to carry on the affairs of the Vir- gin Islands There are great planters in the Virgin Islands who the commit- tee believed when they visited those is- lands wer2 .escaping the income taxes. If the income-tax laws of the Uni- ted States should be applied to the Virgin Islands, we can raise enough mon- ey, I think, to make the Virgin Islands practically self-sustaining. Those are the two points that are cov- ered by my amendment and I would be glad if the Senator from Washingten could see his way clear to accept it. Let me say further that I have a letter from the present governor of the Virgin Is- lands strongly indorsing the amendment and urging its adoption. MR. POINDEXTER. Will the Sepna: tor have the letter printed in the Re- cord ? MR. KENYON. I think, Mr. Presi- dent. it may be of interest toinsert in the Record th: letter received by me from the governor of the Virgin Islands, and I therefore ask unanimous consent that it may be incorporated in the Record at this point. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob- jection, it is so ordered. The letter referred to is as follows: Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States, St Thomas, May 9, 1921. My dear Senator Kenyon: I was in- augurated in the Council Chamber in St Thomas before the Colonial Council and a large assemblage of officials and citizens on April 26, since which time I have been nctively at work getting hold of the situation here, after which I shall go to St. Croix on the same mission. I would not be able to go there at once, anyway, for the Vixen is not at present seaworthy and funds for naval repairs are not easily available, owing to the necessity for rigid economy. ' There have been improvements since your commission was here. Taking your recommendations in order, the following is the present condition as far as I have gone: 1. The water problem is still serious and the season has been very dry. We are about completing a « tershed and large cistern or the French colony (Cha Chas)and when completed and filled by the hoped-for rain, these poor people will have water at their doors instead of hav- }n% to walk a half mile for each bucket- ul. 2. The transportation service is some-