Debate on The Norrwick Public Health Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9327

The Speaker: Order. The Minister will move the third reading.

Josef Marrow (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The town councils have asked for the Bill by their clerks. The Ministry has drafted it as the councils asked, and shortened it. The Bill provides as follows. Every town above 500 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. I commend the Bill to the House.

Ludwig Dallnerer (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Sir, The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. The people of Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. The Bill says so in terms: Every town above 500 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

Magnus Meitzmar (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Sir, The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. Westgau has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The Bill says so in terms: Every town above 500 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Roland Tarnholt (The Osmoor; 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 Osmoor wrote to me about the Bill, all 7 of them, and they were against it until they read it. 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 shall vote against the Bill.

Karl Rusk (The Sudmark; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, 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. Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. 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. We shall divide the House.

Anton Rebhuhn (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Sir, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. My constituents in The Sudmark wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I oppose the third reading. [The Line!]

Arno Doter (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Sir, The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I oppose the third reading. [Shame.]

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

The Speaker put the question. The Ayes were challenged and the House divided.

The Speaker declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

The House adjourned at the rising of the court.