Debate on The War Widows Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4825

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 the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. What the Line requires the House provides; the Bill provides it. The Ministry has nothing to add to the printed Bill. I read the material clause to the House. Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. I ask the House to pass it.

Casimir Wulf (The Osmoor; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. I sit for The Osmoor. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The Bill should pass and it will. [Hear, hear.]

Valter Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. 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. I shall not divide the House on it. [The Line!]

Josef Brenn (Westgau; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I sit for Westgau. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. I read the clause. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. 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. I shall not divide the House on it. [Shame.]

Bertil Feirfeld (Westgau; 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. 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 Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. The Bill says so in terms: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. I support the Bill.

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 Bill concerns the Line. The House will not divide. The Bill was passed without a division, the members rising in their places as the Clerk entered it.

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