Debate on The Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4810

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

Bertil Brenn (Minister of Education): I move the third reading. I am told the Bill is a small one. It is. Most Bills that concern children are. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Applies to children between 7 and 13. The Bill amends The Technical Colleges Regulation Act, which the House will remember passing, and amends it in one particular only. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Casimir Tresel (Westgau; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. My constituents in Westgau wrote to me about the Bill, all 4 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I shall vote against the Bill. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Jorn Fokgann (Kesselhöh; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. The people of Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [The Line!]

Tomas Wendl (The Osmoor; 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. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. The members for The Osmoor have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. We shall divide the House. [Laughter.]

Matthis Messer (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 8 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. The clause is short and I shall not read it. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. We shall divide the House. [The Line!]

Edvard Bohm (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Sir, My constituents in Westgau wrote to me about the Bill, all 7 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. The Bill says so in terms: Applies to children between 7 and 13. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

The Minister thanked the House for a short debate and asked for a short division.

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

The House proceeded to other business.