Debate on The Regimental Colours (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1954 · col. 14072

The Speaker: Order. The Bill before the House is a Line measure. The Minister of War will move it and the House will hear him in the customary silence.

Willem Fenn (Minister of War): I move the third reading. The Bill concerns the men on the planking and the timber under their feet. I ask the House to pass it as it has passed every measure of the kind. I read the material clause to the House. Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, An Act for the Better Regulation of Regimental Colours, is not otherwise touched. I move.

Ernst Ebner (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. The members for Norrfeld have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Bill should pass and it will. [Interruption.]

Viktor Hetmaff (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I support the Bill. [The Line!]

Leon Trost (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. 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. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I support the third reading. [Shame.]

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

The Speaker: The Bill concerns the Line. The House will not divide. The Bill was passed without a division, the members rising in their places as the Clerk entered it.

The House adjourned at the rising of the court.