Debate on The Markets Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9349

The Speaker: The question before the House is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I call the Minister.

Josef Marrow (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Sets the duty at 8 pfen in the marka. I move.

Ottmar Hallin (The Osmoor; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, My constituents in The Osmoor wrote to me about the Bill, all 6 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. The Bill says so in terms: Sets the duty at 8 pfen in the marka. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. I shall vote against the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Jorn Tarn (Kesselhöh; 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. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The members for Kesselhöh 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. [Laughter.]

Friedl Wendl (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Sir, I sit for Norrfeld. 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 House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. The material provision is this: Sets the duty at 8 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to note 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. [The Line!]

Edvard Brenn (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister a plain question: who pays? The men of the mills pay. The Front will vote as it always votes, for the wage and against the fee. The people of Westgau will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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: Sets the duty at 8 pfen in the marka. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Laughter.]

The Minister, in reply, said that the points raised were answered in the printed Bill and that the Ministry would consider the rest.

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

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

The House adjourned at half past 2 in the afternoon.