Debate on The Lindenmar Markets Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9299

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

Josef Marrow (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The town councils have asked for the Bill by their clerks. The Ministry has drafted it as the councils asked, and shortened it. I commend the Bill to the House.

Roderik Hallin (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The members for Norrfeld have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Interruption.]

Ivo Fenn (The Sudmark; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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: Sets the duty at 7 pfen in the marka. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear.]

Gregor Brenn (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Sir, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. Norrfeld 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 oppose the third reading.

Werner Maler (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Sir, Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 7 of them, and they were against it until they read it. 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. I shall vote against the Bill.

Tomas Moor (The Sudmark; The Assembly Union): Sir, 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. 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 Sudmark 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 should pass and I shall vote for it.

Bertil Lenz (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Sir, 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. 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 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. I oppose the third reading. [Shame.]

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Ayes.] Of the contrary, No. [Noes.] A division was claimed.

The tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The House adjourned late in the afternoon sitting.