Debate on The Marsh Regiments Pay Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4849

The Speaker: The Bill concerns the Line. The House will proceed in the customary manner, and I shall take no point of order that does not concern the Line.

Anton Marrow (Minister of War): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill is charged to the war estimates and the House will not expect me to say more than that. I commend the Bill to the House.

Jorn Fokgann (Kesselhöh; 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. The Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. 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. My party will vote for the Bill.

Tomas Wendl (The Osmoor; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. My constituents in The Osmoor wrote to me about the Bill, all 9 of them, and they were against it until they read 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 schedule is plain enough. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. I support the Bill.

Matthis Messer (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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. 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. 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 support the Bill. [Laughter.]

Edvard Bohm (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Sir, 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 ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. The Bill says so in terms: Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. 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. [Laughter.]

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. There being no dissentient voice, as is customary for measures concerning the Line, the Bill was passed without a division and the members stood.

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