Debate on The Firearms Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9324

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 Fenn (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. The Bill provides as follows. Penalty on conviction: a fine of 400 marka or 21 months. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Gustav Zorn (The Capital District; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The members for The Capital District have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. I read the clause. Comes into force on 1 January 1905. 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. [Interruption.]

Aurel Wendl (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Sir, I sit for The Sudmark. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The schedule is plain enough. Comes into force on 1 January 1905. 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 third reading. [Interruption.]

Konrad Turel (The Sudmark; The Workers' Front): Sir, The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. In The Sudmark, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I support the Bill. [Laughter.]

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

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill do pass. The House does not divide on a Line measure. The members rose in their places. The Bill was passed.

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