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The Chairman: | said it has not been abolished. : _Member Stakemann maintained that - : the Chairman said that the Commission - has been abolished, and continuing said, —] have heard that the Asylum is in | beautiful condition, the people placed | - there are treated with great care and kinduess. lam happy to hear such good - reporis oi the institution. and de not - . believe any fault can be found with the management which the Grand Sire will | be pleased to learn: but at the same tim> he entertains great interest Yor the insti- tution and. will appreciate receiving re- -ports as to lie ravning of same. : l " The Chairman in replying o the last | Speaker said, -Mystatement was that it | ‘iexistent; how :ver, if [ was misunder- sivud that’s what 1 said. 1 iook upon | % that Commission as dormant. Last year | some eriticism was made *and the Gov- “erament wrote a leiter asking the vari- | ous eommissions to iake interests in mat- | ters concerning this Municipality. those | Commissions have not taken interest | neither have they offered any criticisms. - | I don’t think it is the i{ault of Govern- ment, the Commissions were offered ‘ every opportunity to take part in matters | concerning this Municipality 1 During Governor Oliver’s administra- | tion certain administrative and executive | functions vested in certain commissions = | were transerred to Government, this | éwas because ‘he Governor was account- l able for the disbursement of funds ap- i propriated by Congress, but that did not . prevent the commissions from Inyuiring * and asking questions. I though that was thoroughly understood. | Regarding the Leper Commission, thats ‘ not dead, but dormant. The Honorable | Member has appplied for Membership, I | am perfectly sure that Government wili | consent. f . 18t Mewmber tor Chr stiansted Country District [Stakemann} remarked: Mr. | Chairmann. [ donot know that the Coun- cil has appointed any member,for the P Commission on the Leper Asylum; [ un- derstand that the -Municipal Committee | has {aken upou itself and appoint che Commission for the Leper Asylum. 1f J even the Council -had appointed a Com- | mission, they will not work.-I hope svme | of these days there will be a meeting of the commissionfor the Leper -Asyium so ! thatImay be able to get- some informa.. | tionconcerning -the Asylum to send tc | the Odd Fellows in Denmark. F e ‘The Chairman remarked: ‘l‘am not certain that a ilember of the Commission was appointed for the Leper Asylum last year, because the Commission was sleep- ing, but a ,comixxissiron:_has been ‘appoint- ed ‘this "year. and 1. am quite certain as this ‘guestion is raised the -members will ~ work’and will_baye the hearty coopera: | tion of Goverament. - K e : There' being lo’ further business be- | tofe’the House the Chairman deelared the meeting ciosed at 3.95 p. m. SECRULE A VIS LOCAL. Owing to the non-arrival of the mail brmgin%,the film from St Thomas the show advertised to take place in the theatre this evening has been postponed to Saturday evening. The formalities-connected with the opening of the library will come off na meeling at Government House this even- ingz. Kverybody is invited. . The Vigilant sails this morning for St. Thomas in the mail service to replace the Creole which lost her sails and could not return from St. Thomas. TELEGRAMS. | ST."CROIX STATION. Washington, Dec. 23rd.—The United Statos Department, today intervened in what threatened to be a controversy between the British Embassy and the Senate Committee investigating cable communications =over the gquestion of whether tnere is a British censorship of cable inessages to the United States ori- _ginaiing in the British Isles. The De- partments action was regarded as a re- buke to the kinbassy for sending direct to Senator Kellog, ':?airmab of the com- mittee, a letter denyiug the testimony of Mir. Neweomb Carleton, president of the Western Union. that cable messages coming to the United Stares from Great Britain were subject to «'elay and cen- _sorship of the British naval intellegence authorities. -The Fmbassy’s action is understood“to be regarded by the De- partments I~as a breach of diplomatic courtesy. The Department will take the subject matter of the correspondence up directly with the Embassy, but whether” it wili ask for an: explanation f the action of the Embassy in writing direct- ly to the Senator has not been indicated. London, Dec. 23rd.—Dr. Cope com- mander of ‘the British Imperial Antartie Expeditions, has sent the following mes- sage' from Port Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands. *Sailing from here December 20 with full equipment ana dogs.” Hope to land at Grabhamland De- cember 25. ‘All the paity well. Ex- vect to héar'irom us in eighteen months. Goodbye”. Commander (ope with four ~ ¢o panions, purposes spending eighteen " months in surveying and charting the Western shores of Wedell Sea and 1n carvying out secientific work in tbe Antartic The party' will live during the “entire periodin tents and huts and will depend for fresh meat on seals and penguins, - B - . London, Dec. 23rd.—~Sinn Fein docu- ments showing comwypiicity in @ German plot of 1919 will be made publie within a few dayg, Mr. Lloyd George informed the House of Commons today. ‘the in- criminating literature was captured ip the recent raids on Sinn Fein leaders, he said. Reports have been received here, of direct threats leing made “against citizens ¢i County Keny in re prisal for the ocisappesance of Eritish officers. Athens, Lec. 28rd.— Irenier Khaliis, it 18 uneerstecd, hes tencered his regi 4 pation 88 s lesult 1 the leduse) of Wm miral Kelly, Leza of thedarval Missien here to seccept the Crerd Carder of the Reyal order ¢f the Sevicur. bt : FIVE WGERL Wlll CNTLECTCCGRARB. Among the ‘effects ¢f Licut. Frank Kitkley, a ycung Eritish soldier wko fell on the fheld ¢1 battle in ltalysin 1917 was % rphetegrath ot al ycung woman. OUn the Lack of ihe cardbcard on. which the picivie wgs nounted were ‘the words: ''l ileave &ll to her,” This was accepted as a valid will, al- though it wa: the shortest one, proba- | bly, that was ever written. Afte i members ot Lieut. Kirkley’s family hns made affidavit identifying Miss Apnie Kyrke as the subject of the photograph procbate of the will was granted to her and the soldier’s estate, valued at about SI6OO, passed to her.—The Pathfinder, DEAD MAN’'S VOTE GOOD. 4 E\}en dead men can now vote, if they work it right. Alabama is one of the states that have laws authorizing people to vote bymail A man in Blount county was sick in a hospital just be- tore this eleetion. He snt in his vote by mail and it was counted on election day. Then it came out that he bad aiready died. The authonties held how- ever that inasmuch as the vote haé been cast according so law it was Dro- per to count it,—[bid. LIGHT WAY FROM PARIS TO LON- DON : : To make air navigation between Paris and London safer at night a 'plan is be- ing concerted by the two geovernments for placing lights across the English channe! at intervals of five miles. "In addition there will be nive lizvhts bstwen® Calais and Paris and six on the E‘:? lish sid> of the ehannel. Each i be of 50,000 candie power, capable of pierci..g the darkest night to the height of a miie and a half. - Ibid. : . MANY AMERICANS IN PARIS In a late count it appeared rhat 22,000 Americans are now residents oFParig, This number doos oot include .tonrists nor mea -travelling for business. Thet- many have takep out identification eard' aceov.iing 1opolice regulations. Only threc other foreign eolonies are largér in size. These are, in order, T[talian, Swiss and Briiish.