Debate on The Medals Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1958 · col. 14465

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.

Paul Krastmat (Minister of War): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill is charged to the war estimates and the House will not expect me to say more than that. I ask the House to pass it.

Sigmund Gatich (The Ostrand; The Assembly Union): Speaker, 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 men on the planking will not read this debate. They will feel the Bill, or not feel it, and that is the only test. 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. My party will vote for the Bill.

Otto Keimann (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Speaker, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 3 of them, and they were against it until they read it. On a Line measure I say what every member says: the Line holds, and the House holds with it. I read the clause. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. I shall not divide the House on it.

Erna Gristen (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Speaker, 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 Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. Norrfeld 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. [Shame.]

Paula Jann (The Sudmark; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister a plain question: who pays? The men of the mills pay. The Front will vote as it always votes, for the wage and against the fee. The men on the planking will not read this debate. They will feel the Bill, or not feel it, and that is the only test. The people of The Sudmark will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. My party will vote for the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

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

The Speaker put the question. There being no dissentient voice, as is customary for measures concerning the Line, the Bill was passed without a division and the members stood.

The House proceeded to other business.