Debate on The Universities Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1861 · col. 5425

The Speaker: The House will come to order. The Bill stands for its third reading. The Minister.

Ulrik Reinholt (Minister of Education): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill provides for the schools what the last Bill did not. The textbooks are the Ministry's and remain so. I move.

Ansel Brenn (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The people of Norrfeld will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. Every Bill of this kind adds a form, a fee and a clerk. The Assembly Union would like, once in a session, to pass a Bill that removes one. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. I support the third reading.

Ivo Ebner (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. The people of The Capital District will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Bill should pass and it will. [Laughter.]

Teodor Sirar (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. In The Capital District, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I shall not divide the House on it. [Hear, hear.]

Fedor Zalberg (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Sir, The people of The Capital District will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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 third reading. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

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

The House adjourned late in the afternoon sitting.