Debate on The Requisition Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4793

The Speaker: The Bill concerns the Line. The House will proceed in the customary manner, and I shall take no point of order that does not concern the Line.

Jorn Wendl (Grand Chancellor): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill concerns the men on the planking and the timber under their feet. I ask the House to pass it as it has passed every measure of the kind. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. I ask the House to pass it.

Casimir Voss (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Sir, The Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. I sit for The Ostrand. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The men on the planking will not read this debate. They will feel the Bill, or not feel it, and that is the only test. The schedule is plain enough. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. My party will vote for the Bill. [Laughter.]

Tomas Kessler (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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. The Bill says so in terms: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. The men on the planking will not read this debate. They will feel the Bill, or not feel it, and that is the only test. My party will vote for the Bill. [The Line!]

Fedor Kessler (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Sir, My constituents in Norrfeld wrote to me about the Bill, all 6 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. The Bill says so in terms: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. The men on the planking will not read this debate. They will feel the Bill, or not feel it, and that is the only test. I support the Bill. [The Line!]

Roderik Berfon (The Osmoor; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I sit for The Osmoor. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The schedule is plain enough. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. I support the Bill. [The Line!]

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill do pass. The House does not divide on a Line measure. The members rose in their places. The Bill was passed.

The House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.