Debate on The Reedtal Aviation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4790

The Speaker: The question before the House is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I call the Minister.

Casimir Tautmann (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. I move.

Edvard Lenz (The Osmoor; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. The Osmoor has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [The Line!]

Piet Ebner (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The members for The Ostrand have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The material provision is this: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 1250 marka. I ask the House to note it. I oppose the third reading.

Bertil Brack (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Sir, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? I sit for The Sudmark. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. We shall divide the House. [Shame.]

Tomas Marrow (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The liberty of the subject is a large phrase for a small Bill, but I use it, because the Bill is small and the liberty is not. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. Norrfeld has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. I shall vote against the Bill. [The Line!]

Piet Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. My constituents in Kesselhöh wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I shall vote against the Bill. [The Line!]

The Minister, in reply, said that the points raised were answered in the printed Bill and that the Ministry would consider the rest.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Ayes.] Of the contrary, No. [Noes.] A division was claimed.

The Speaker: The Ayes have it. The Bill is passed and will go to the Grand Chancellor for assent.

The House proceeded to other business.