Debate on The Apprentices Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4820

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

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 Bill provides as follows. Applies to children between 7 and 13. I ask the House to pass it.

Stellan Teiring (The Capital District; The Reed Party): Sir, 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. I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The material provision is this: Applies to children between 7 and 13. I ask the House to note it. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. I support the third reading.

Teodor Hannmann (Kesselhöh; 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. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I support the third reading. [The Line!]

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 members for Kesselhöh have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. The Bill says so in terms: Applies to children between 7 and 13. The Bill should pass and it will.

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 put the question. The Ayes were challenged and the House divided.

The tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The remaining Orders of the Day were deferred and the House rose.