Debate on The Schools (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4796

The Speaker: The House will come to order. The Bill stands for its third reading. The Minister.

Bertil Brenn (Minister of Education): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill provides for the schools what the last Bill did not. The textbooks are the Ministry's and remain so. The Bill provides as follows. Applies to children between 6 and 13. The Bill amends The Schools (Amendment) Act, which the House will remember passing, and amends it in one particular only. I ask the House to pass it.

Stellan Teiring (The Capital District; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, In The Capital District, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The Bill says so in terms: Applies to children between 6 and 13. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Teodor Hannmann (Kesselhöh; The Assembly Union): Sir, The members for Kesselhöh have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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 clause is short and I shall not read it. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Xaver Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. My constituents in Kesselhöh wrote to me about the Bill, all 7 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I oppose the third reading.

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

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

The Speaker declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

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