, 1874-04-25

u ~ win hAAAS
no body knew what, whispering and walk
ing tiptoe as in a hospital. Now the spell
begins to break, and we begin to see where
we are. This is the positive result, and a
very fortunate one too, of the first dis
cussion of the Budget in the Upper House.
This discussion is not very edifying. 1t
was opened by members of the Ministry,
each of whom characterized the ques-
tions in which they were peculiarly in
terested." The sum of what they had
to say was that they wished no changes
made by the help of the Upper House
against the Lower.
"For the Upper House the situation
which thus arose seemed very depressing.
1t was evident that one member after an
other need not have got up to say, that they
were under no constraint and in good
spirits, to make the impression overwhelm-
ing that they felt themselves extremely in
commoded. The part to be played by the
Upper House in the great internal conflict,
which has now for sometime been stand
ing, has thus been limited to once or twice
swallowing the different camels on the
Budget, or, as in this case, be allowed only
to strain out an individual gnat. Such
a role,-leaving out Of sight the counter
address-has been assigned to the honora-
BILE House, and does not in a very high
degree answer to the significance which
was to be maintained for it," 1t cost
the House some effort to show the neces-
sary resignation. "But in the same man
ner as this unwillingness to sit with the
hands in the lap can be easily understood,
ca HEQuICo ~ oopppf ho Aopiod fhof CraDor-
al detection has been the result of what has
passed. This extreme patience on the
part of the Ministry with what the United
Left has granted them, has been to many
a surprise so bitter and so full of humilia-
tions that it is best to speak quite plainly
about that matter"
''That which must be the consolation in
this situation is that, with all its Distress
ing painfulness, dissatisfaction and yield
ing, it presents itself in a manner as the
close of something which has been yet
more painful, viz the principal part of the
bitter conflict between the Government
and the Lower House. For it is evident
that the Government ought only to ask
for, and could only obtain, the support of
the Upper House for the changes of the
oOuSOb tuCy "duCCu WLCl III was GlIClt
intention to maintain them to the last and
abide by the consequences. To get the
House to make the changes, and then,
when the other House maintained its
standpoint, to yield, would have been a
mockery equally derogatory to the dignity
of the House and the Ministry. If then
the Ministry and the Upper House were
together to have taken up d fight with the
majority of the Lower, it must have
been previously agreed that it must be in
all earnest. Such a position the Ministry
could not have defended, however, under
present circumstances, except it had been
made absolutely necessary by the United
Left, and they also felt strong enough.
This last point we shall not here enter
upon, for it is the first which is on the
tapls. The Ministry must, then, by its
deliberations have come to the conclusion
in accordance with the general opinion
that the necessity for a continued con-
fict with the majority of the Lower House
is not found. The position of the Ministry
and the Upper House to the Budget in
the shape in which it now appears is thus,
in the opinion of Dagbladet, ineligible,
when it is understood as an acknowledge