The Law Commission of the Seym has on a vote adopted the Government motion for the abolition of the Czarist restrictions against the Jews which are still on the Statute Books in Poland. Deputy Sommerstein, who was recently accorded the right of sitting on the Commission with advisory powers only, as the representative of the Club of Jewish Deputies, since the membership of the Club is less than the minimum number of ten entitling a Club to full representation on the Commission with the right to vote, was present and took part in the discussion on the motion.
Deputy Jazwinski, of the antisemitic National Democratic Party, moved the rejection of the Government motion, saying that he suspected that the Government had entered into some obligation to the Jews during the election campaign, because of which it was now trying to rush through this bill.
On Deputy Sommerstein’s proposal the Commission also decided to abolish the existing restrictions upon the Yiddish and Hebrew languages.
In accordance with Parliamentary procedure the bill for the abolition of the Czarist restrictions, thought it has already passed two readings in the previous Seym, must come up now as a fresh motion, which will have to pass all three readings, after which it will be published in the “Official Gazette” as law.
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