Debate on The Wasserdorf Public Order Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1958 · col. 14482

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

Arno Rusk (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. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Penalty on conviction: a fine of 28 marka or 8 months. I move.

Sigmund Brenn (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. 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 Sudmark has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Hear, hear.]

Klaus Marrow (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Speaker, The Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. The people of The Sudmark will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Leon Nagel (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

Egon Tarn (The Osmoor; The Workers' Front): Speaker, The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. My constituents in The Osmoor wrote to me about the Bill, all 8 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. The material provision is this: Penalty on conviction: a fine of 28 marka or 8 months. I ask the House to note it. We shall divide the House. [The Line!]

Leon Wendl (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, There is not a word in the Bill about wages. There never is. I put the word in now, so that it is in the record. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. 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!]

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.