Debate on The Chronological Records (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1918 · col. 10632

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

Willem Sarpeten (Minister of Chronology): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I am asked why the Bill is necessary. It is necessary because the clockmakers have asked for it, and because the Ministry has agreed with them. The Bill provides as follows. Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Chronological Records Act, is not otherwise touched. I move.

Egon Sustel (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The people of The Sudmark will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [The Line!]

Kurt Kessler (Norrfeld; The Workers' Front): 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. The mills of Kessel will feel this Bill before the Ministry does. I say so now so that nobody may say afterwards that they were not told. The schedule is plain enough. Offences under this Act are tried before the Court of Chronological Offences. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Laughter.]

Kurt Schesru (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Sir, The Capital District 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. I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Interruption.]

Egon Brenn (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The member opposite used the word 'irregular'. I have the Bill here and I have the register here and I find nothing irregular in either. I sit down. [Shame.]

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

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

The Speaker: The Ayes have it. The Bill is passed and will go to the Grand Chancellor for assent.

The House adjourned at half past 4 in the afternoon.