Debate on The War Widows (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9309

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.

Gustav Marrow (Grand Chancellor): 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. The Bill amends The War Widows Act, which the House will remember passing, and amends it in one particular only. I move.

Gregor Brenn (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Sir, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. 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. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I support the third reading.

Werner Maler (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Sir, 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. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 3 of them, and they were against it until they read it. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. The schedule is plain enough. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. The Bill should pass and it will. [Hear, hear.]

Tomas Moor (The Sudmark; 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'. The members for The Sudmark have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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 shall not divide the House on it. [Hear, hear.]

Ansel Mossbach (The Ostrand; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, There is not a word in the Bill about wages. There never is. I put the word in now, so that it is in the record. The people of The Ostrand will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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. The schedule is plain enough. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. I support the Bill.

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

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.