Debate on The Broadcasting Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4827

The Speaker: The question before the House is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I call the Minister.

Casimir Tautmann (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. I move.

Josef Klelach (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. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The clause is short and I shall not read it. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

Tomas Brenn (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Sir, I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. 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. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The Bill says so in terms: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 12 marka. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

Albrecht Brenn (The Ostrand; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, 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. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The members for The Ostrand have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I oppose the third reading. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Piet Hallin (The Sudmark; 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. I sit for The Sudmark. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [The Line!]

Jorn Holt (The Sudmark; The Assembly Union): Sir, The members for The Sudmark have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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 Bill says so in terms: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 12 marka. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. I oppose the third reading.

Ottmar Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Sir, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. In The Sudmark, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Cries of 'Order'.]

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 House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.