Debate on The Motorway Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4852

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Casimir Tautmann (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. The Bill provides as follows. Provides 83750 marka for works between Lindenmar and Hollhausen. I move.

Stellan Hotfeld (The Capital District; The Reed Party): 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 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 towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. The material provision is this: Provides 83750 marka for works between Lindenmar and Hollhausen. I ask the House to note it. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Shame.]

Lorenz Moor (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Sir, 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. 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. The clause is short and I shall not read it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I oppose the third reading. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Teodor Mengen (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. The people of Westgau will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear.]

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

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

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.