Debate on The Military Pensions Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 16009

The Speaker: The Bill concerns the Line. The House will proceed in the customary manner, and I shall take no point of order that does not concern the Line.

Maria Holt (Minister of War): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Line is held. The Bill sees that it is held next year on the same terms. I commend it to the House. The Bill provides as follows. Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Monika Wendl (Kesselhöh; The Reed Party): Speaker, The people of Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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. The Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. The Bill should pass and it will. [Interruption.]

Kurt Jost (The Capital District; 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 members for The Capital District have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. The schedule is plain enough. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. My party will vote for the Bill.

Ursula Zalberg (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. 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. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. The Bill should pass and it will. [Hear, hear.]

Jonas Sachmikel (The Capital District; 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. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 6 of them, and they were against it until they read it. 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 clause is short and I shall not read it. I support the third reading. [Interruption.]

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

The Speaker: The Bill concerns the Line. The House will not divide. The Bill was passed without a division, the members rising in their places as the Clerk entered it.

The House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.