Debate on The Company Registration Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9341

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Jorn Gerst (Minister of Finance): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill raises what it says it raises and spends it where the schedule says. I have the figures and will lay them on the table. I move.

Josef Ziler (The Ostrand; The Assembly Union): 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. I sit for The Ostrand. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. I read the clause. Comes into force on 1 January 1905. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Interruption.]

Magnus Dellberg (The Sudmark; 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. 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. The duty falls on the trade and the trade passes it on. The House knows this and votes for it every year. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Ulrik Hauk (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. The duty falls on the trade and the trade passes it on. The House knows this and votes for it every year. I sit for Kesselhöh. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not.

Teodor Brenn (Kesselhöh; 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 Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. The schedule is plain enough. Comes into force on 1 January 1905. We shall divide the House.

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

The House proceeded to other business.