Debate on The Sudholt Tramway Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1953 · col. 13963

The Speaker: The House will come to order. The Bill stands for its third reading. The Minister.

Arno Rusk (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The town councils have asked for the Bill by their clerks. The Ministry has drafted it as the councils asked, and shortened it. In terms: Provides 1641 marka for works between Sudfurt and Ostrabruck. Comes into force on 1 January 1954. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Leon Marsch (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Speaker, 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. 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. The Bill should pass and it will. [The Line!]

Magnus Hallin (The Osmoor; The Continuity Party): Speaker, Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. My constituents in The Osmoor wrote to me about the Bill, all 4 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I support the third reading. [Hear, hear.]

Else Fenn (Kesselhöh; The Workers' Front): Speaker, The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. The people of Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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 have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I support the Bill. [Interruption.]

Hedwig Brenn (Westgau; The Reed Party): Speaker, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. In Westgau, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I support the Bill.

Hugo Rabe (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Speaker, The Ostrand has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. The schedule is plain enough. Comes into force on 1 January 1954. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I support the third reading.

Viktor Fromm (Kesselhöh; The Reed Party): Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. My party will vote for the Bill. [Interruption.]

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 adjourned at ten in the forenoon.