Debate on The Universities (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4826

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. The Bill provides for the schools what the last Bill did not. The textbooks are the Ministry's and remain so. The Bill amends The Universities (Amendment) Act, which the House will remember passing, and amends it in one particular only. I move.

Hendrik Wendl (Westgau; 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. 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. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. The material provision is this: Applies to children between 5 and 14. I ask the House to note it. I oppose the third reading.

Bertil Brenn (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The members for The Capital District have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. I oppose the third reading. [Laughter.]

Gustav Toler (Kesselhöh; The Assembly Union): 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. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. Kesselhöh 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 cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear.]

Ulrik Dahlmann (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sit for Norrfeld. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. 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 clause is short and I shall not read it. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

Casimir Voss (The Ostrand; 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? I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. I sit for The Ostrand. 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 I shall vote for it. [Laughter.]

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

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

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

The House proceeded to other business.