Debate on The Turnpikes Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1958 · col. 14481

The Speaker: The House will come to order. The Bill stands for its third reading. The Minister.

Emil Hallin (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. The Bill provides as follows. Provides 139376 marka for works between Grauburg and Hochstadt. I move.

Rudolf Brauren (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Speaker, The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. I read the clause. Comes into force on 1 January 1959. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. We shall divide the House. [Interruption.]

Ernst Kicker (Westgau; The Workers' Front): 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. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. My constituents in Westgau wrote to me about the Bill, all 3 of them, and they were against it until they read it. We shall divide the House. [The Line!]

Tobias Sanmeil (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Speaker, In The Capital District, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. The clause is short and I shall not read it. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Anton Marsch (Kesselhöh; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The mills of Kessel will feel this Bill before the Ministry does. I say so now so that nobody may say afterwards that they were not told. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The members for Kesselhöh have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I oppose the third reading. [Hear, hear.]

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

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

The Speaker declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

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