Debate on The Vellmar Regimental Colours Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4823

The Speaker: Order. The Bill before the House is a Line measure. The Minister of War will move it and the House will hear him in the customary silence.

Anton Marrow (Minister of War): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Line is held. The Bill sees that it is held next year on the same terms. I commend it to the House. In terms: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. I move.

Ivo Fenn (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Sir, Every Bill of this kind adds a form, a fee and a clerk. The Assembly Union would like, once in a session, to pass a Bill that removes one. 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. In Westgau, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The Bill should pass and it will. [Hear, hear.]

Magnus Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, 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. The people of The Sudmark will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I support the Bill. [Shame.]

Stellan Hotfeld (The Capital District; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, 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. 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. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. The material provision is this: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. I ask the House to note it. My party will vote for the Bill. [Laughter.]

Lorenz Moor (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, 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 Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The Bill should pass and it will. [Laughter.]

Teodor Mengen (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, In Westgau, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. The Bill should pass and it will. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Ottmar Hetmaff (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, 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 Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. The members for The Capital District have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I shall not divide the House on it. [Cries of 'Order'.]

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 adjourned at the rising of the court.