Debate on The Grautal Canal Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15969

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Klara Kreist (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The Bill is a Bill about drains, roads and lamps, and I shall not dress it up. The towns need it. I commend the Bill to the House.

Peter Brenn (The Osmoor; The Reed Party): Mr. 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 members for The Osmoor have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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 cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Interruption.]

Pavel Totenn (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. 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 Norrfeld have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Hear, hear.]

Johanna Hallin (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I sit for The Ostrand. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Kerstin Jost (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): 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 land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. We shall divide the House. [Hear, hear.]

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

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: The Ayes have it. The Bill is passed and will go to the Grand Chancellor for assent.

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