Debate on The Libraries Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1954 · col. 14064

The Speaker: Order. The Minister will move the third reading.

Egon Brenn (Minister of Education): I move the third reading. I am told the Bill is a small one. It is. Most Bills that concern children are. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Ernst Heirholt (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Workers' Front has looked for the working man in this Bill and found him in the schedule, paying. The people of Westgau will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [The Line!]

Rosa Mossbach (The Ostrand; 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. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. 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 should pass and I shall vote for it. [Hear, hear.]

Maria Neitzvaur (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Speaker, The members for Norrfeld have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The liberty of the subject is a large phrase for a small Bill, but I use it, because the Bill is small and the liberty is not. The material provision is this: Applies to children between 7 and 11. I ask the House to note it. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Interruption.]

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

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

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