Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-12
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DENMARK.

"A company entitled the West In
o1an Company with capital of over
$l,ooO,O0O has been incorporated for
the purpose OF establishing the pro-
posed steamship service between the
Baltic, the West Indies and central
America, with headquarters at Copen-
hagen and St. Thomas. Prince Valde-
mar is the honorary president. The
Danlsh government has promised to
support the company in promoting
the interests of the Danish West In
dies by reforming the administration
Of the islands. The directorate of the
new organization is composed of
bankers, merchants and politicians.
The government has proposed
Prince Faldemar as governor of the
Danish West Indies.
Finance Minister Hage has asked
the folkething to nominate a repre-
sentative for the Danish commission
which the government will shortly
send to the West Indies. The COM
missions scope includes the re-estab-
lishment of equilibrium between the
revenue and expenditure and the Geo.
nomic development of the islands.
The Danish paper published at St..
Thomas, Danish West Indies, in COM
menting on the rejection of the treaty
for the sale of the Danish West In
dies to the United States, says:
"As loyal subjects we accept the
governments decision and will make
the best of existing conditions which
for St. Croix are serious"
SWEDEN.
BY far the most delicate and diff
cult problem facing the cabinet at the
present moment is the drafting of
a new bill for the extension of the
voting franchise. A special commit
tee already has the matter under
consideration. When this committee
was appointed Minister of Justice
Berger explained his position at some
length, and his utterances were
unanimously endorsed by the other
members of the cabinet. According
to this action the cabinet committed
itself to the policy indicated by the
following lines: Inasmuch as the
question of extending the right to
vote for members of the second
chamber of the riskdag cannot be
definitely settled without removing
the existing property qualifications
and without giving the urban popu-
lation the same proportionate repre-
sentation as the rural population, the
new bill must contain no property
limitations and must make no dis
tinction between city and country.
But there must be some qualiica-
tons, as, for instance: A voter must
be a man of at least IS years of age
and must have discharged his mill.
tary duties and paid his taxes if he
is taxpayer. One of the most i'm
portant features of the new bill will
be provision for proportional rep
resentation, and the expressions of
the minister of justice on this point
are significant: 'In both chambers
of the riksdag as we'll as elsewhere
it has been energetically urged that
q suffrage reform of such radical
nature as the one suggested ought to
embrace the introduction of proper
,tional representation. Such pro-
vision, the aim of which is to give, as
far as expedient and possible, views
which are held by minorities chance
to be represented, is unquestionably
entitled to particular consideration.
But the elaboration of the details of
such provision involves consider
able difficulties, and it seems to me
that it would be expedient to leave
that matter to a committee composed
partly of experienced politicians,
partly of men who have made this
subject special study"
Citizens of Gothenburg have raised
over $4,000 for the aid of Norrland
farmers who lost their crops.
One result of the fall maneuvers
was, that many poor people turned
an honest penny by picking up cart
ridge shells and selling them to brass
foundries.
A building was wrecked and an old
man killed by an explosion at the
Gyttorp powder mills. near Orebro.
The railway department proposed
that the old Finnish names of the
railway stations along the Gellivare
and Ofoten railway be replaced by
pure Swedish names, but the pro-
vincial government of Norrbotten has
rejected the proposition. Further
more, the provincial government is in
favor of naming the new stations af-
ter the governors of the province.
The committee appointed by the
king to draw up suffrage extern
sion bill is composed Of A. Asker.
governor of Haland, chairman; G.
Berg, member of the second chamber
of the riksdag; Mayor c. O. Moberg;
Baron C. J. Rape; j. E. Biesert,
member of the second chamber; Prof.
S. Won Friesen; Ivar Monsoon of Traa,
farmer; Prof. L. E. Phragmen of the
Stockholm high school; and Emil
Svensen, an author.
About 1000 laborers are without
work in Helsingborg, and the city
authorities are urging upon the en-
ployers to employ only residents of
the city.
a, number of railway employees in
Stockholm have resolved to agitate
for the organization of national
railway association.
-14 The government insurance depart
ment is engaged in making prepare
tions for the enforcement of the new
life insurance law from the begin
ming of the year 1908. This work re-
quires the appointment of insurance