Debate on The Banking (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1953 · col. 14016

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

Gregor Brenn (Minister of Finance): I move the third reading. 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. The Bill provides as follows. Sets the duty at 3 pfen in the marka. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Banking Regulation Act, is not otherwise touched. I move.

Hugo Rabe (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Speaker, 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 Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. My constituents in The Ostrand wrote to me about the Bill, all 9 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Interruption.]

Viktor Fromm (Kesselhöh; The Reed Party): Speaker, 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 speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. I oppose the third reading. [Hear, hear.]

Ernst Heirholt (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

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

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

The remaining Orders of the Day were deferred and the House rose.