Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-27
SWEDES AXE WILLING
NOrwegianS May Have Separation if They
Really Desire to Go.
EASY TERMS TO DISSOLVE UNION
Special Commission Makes Report to
RikIdsg on Matter.
NORWAY ASKED TO HOLD ELECTION
New stOrthing Wanted to Secure More
Popular Expression.
NORWAY ASKED TO HOLD ELECTION
RULER FOR SoRw y MAY Be swEDE
Prince Carl of the BernadOtte Line
Likely to Be Called Upon to
Assume the Empty
Throne.

Cablegram.) )-Since last Tuesday the silence
of the political sphinx has been broken.
The special commission which was APP
pointed by the Swedish Riksdag to delib-
crate on the Swedish Norwegian crisis,
after a long silence. has at last let the
Swedish people know the stand Of the
Riksdag in regard to the Norwegian revo-
luton. one of the first things we notice
in the report OF this commission is that the
Swedish cabinet has not been given man
date to act in the name of the Swedish
people.
The Swedish Norwegian union has been
nothing but a blessing to Norway-it has
reaped from this union political advan-
tages in the form of internal peace econom-
lcsl and political protection. prestige. com
mercial and Industrial progress and many
other good things. and has therefore no
good reason to act as It has towards
Sweden and its aged and beloved monarch
Norway has broken the law which 1t once
declared itself willing to obey. Norway
has shown its lack of 1deltty to the brother
nation by fortifying the frontier, etc,
and. finally, there is no proof whatever
that the Norwegian revolution was in re-
ality a work of the whole Norwegian ma
ton.
what IL Proposed.
Owing TO these and other reasons. the
clear to grant the cabinet a mandate to
negotiate direct with the revolutionary Nor
wegian cabinet, but made the following
proposition:
]. That the Riksdag. not being able to
accept the kings proposition In its present
form, has no objections to negotiations be
ing carried on with Norway in regard to
the dissolution of the union. in case a
Storthing appointed by new elections should
make a request to that effect, or i'm case
such a request is received from Norway
after the Norwegian people have expressed
their wish for such dissolution by gen
b That the Riksdaa NAV. on, account Of
the propositions made in the Riksdag, give
authority to the treasury to prepare access
the board of directors OF the treasury has
right TO make. by making use of credits
e sEns Of up the RksSaR %5oh sh% be after
cessble for taking steps which may be
called for BY the conditions which called
for the calling of the present extra session
This report Of the special commission
has now been accepted by the Biksdag
and the probable conditions which Swe-
den will finally put up when IL comes to
the definite dissolution of the union are
as follows:
l. The instituting OF a neutral zone
around the southern end OF the Swedish
2 The regulation of the rights of the
Swedish Laps to pasture their reindeer
mart ~ tha ,Sear vvbnr tbaro ts - -.
ture for them in Sweden.
3. Guarantees for, unobstructed free rail-
way traffic from the one country to the
other.
Advantages Mutual.
All these conditions are reciprocal and
cannot possibly imply any national hu-
initiation. The advantages OF having these
questions decided in a satisfactory manner
are mutual and therefore the two nations
ought to come to an agreeable separation
Np
played in the negotiations The tenderest
point is naturally the dismantling of the
frontier fortresses, but as Sweden does
not propose to have any frontier fortresses
10 menace Norway, so Norway should be
willing TO remove every sign of menace
against Sweden.
The most remarkable thing about the
report of the special commission is that
Il was unanimously agreed to by every
member OF the commission, although the
commission was composed Of all the varl-
Gus elements cf the Riksdag.
II was self-evident that the cabine,
would resign when the Riksdag refused tc
give the cabinet the desired mandate "a
negotiate with the revolutionary Norwe,
gian cabinet but the most remarka ble
point was that the cabinet resigned as
soon as the report of the special commits
sion was made public and did not wait
thus though the Riksdag has decided tC
give a mandate to the cabinet to negotiate
with Norway soon as the condition,
put up by the special commission hav,
been agreed 20 by Norway still the Riks
dag is ignorant of what cabinet II ha,
given this mandate to. But the Riksdal
cherished unlimited confidence I'm the ole
king as being capable OF placing such mel
at the helm Of state in this crisis as will b.
hast In ha will nf n,
people.
Probable New Premier.
II is not yet known who will succeed
Premier Ramstedt but It will probably b.
Christian Lundeberg. vice chairman of IN
First Chamber of the Riksdag As tn
nearest assistant OF Mr. LundebeTg, namel.
minister for foreign affairs, Count c
Wachtmeister has the best chances OF sue
cess as his urbane and winning manner
make him specially suited 10 this post. A
minister OF war, Colonel Tingssen i
thought to have the best chances, and a
minister OF the marine, the director OF tn
state telegraph, Captain Commander A
Lindman. The other members Of the cab
met are supposed 10 be G. A. Berg. J
Widen. ]. e. Biersert, X. II. Il Hammarsk
jold. A. Peterson of Paboda, G. A. Peter
son and X stan but il is not yet know
what ofices they viii MI in the cabinet.
Norway has decided to refer the Ques
tion Of the dissolution Of the union 10
general popular vote, 10 be held on Angus
ls on which day the world will know
the Norwegian government has acted o
its own risk or has really expressed IN
popular wish by breaking the union.
visitors 90 stockholm.
Sweden has lately been visited by nc
only the German kaiser. but also by IN
aged empress OF the fallen French empir'
Empress Eugene. who, in spite OF her
years, took In all the museums and sight
OF Stockholm.
Stockholm has also been visited by man