Debate on The Railway Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1958 · col. 14470

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

Emil Hallin (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. I commend the Bill to the House.

Erna Gristen (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Speaker, 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 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 material provision is this: Provides 137690 marka for works between Sanding and Eisenheim. I ask the House to note it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Hear, hear.]

Paula Jann (The Sudmark; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, I sit for The Sudmark. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The Workers' Front has looked for the working man in this Bill and found him in the schedule, paying. The Bill says so in terms: Provides 137690 marka for works between Sanding and Eisenheim. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear.]

Bruno Hallin (Kesselhöh; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. 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 shall vote against the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Karl Brenn (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Speaker, The members for The Ostrand have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The Bill says so in terms: Provides 137690 marka for works between Sanding and Eisenheim. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Hear, hear.]

Heinz Klanmann (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. I sit for Westgau. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The clause is short and I shall not read it. 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 declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

The House proceeded to other business.