Debate on The Salt Duties (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4818

The Speaker: Order. The Minister will move the third reading.

Josef Hallin (Minister of Finance): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill raises what it says it raises and spends it where the schedule says. I have the figures and will lay them on the table. The Bill provides as follows. Sets the duty at 11 pfen in the marka. I move.

Lorenz Ziel (The Capital District; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The Capital District 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 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: Sets the duty at 11 pfen in the marka. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not.

Ansel Nater (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, 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 Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. My constituents in Norrfeld wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Aurel Hallin (The Osmoor; The Continuity Party): Sir, 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 is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. 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. We shall divide the House. [The Line!]

Aurel Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Sir, The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. The people of Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [The Line!]

Ivo Fenn (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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. Westgau 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 Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

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

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