The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-22
Sweden Will Yield RathcT
 Than Fight.
aIKsDAG HOLDS SESSION
King Oscar Reads His Pacific
 Speech.
Rnler Thinks It wm Be Bstter fox Two Countries te Go Their Sep arase ways Thsn to Shed
 Good BIesd.

Stockholm, June 2t.--The extr3ordf> nary session of the Rixsdag summoned by King Oscar to deal with the mo- mentous. question raised by Norway's declaration dissolving the union met for business this morning.
 As forecasted by the Associated Press yesterday afternoon the governs ment immediately introduced q htlf asking for authorization to enter into negotiations with the Norwegian Stcr- thing and draw tip a conditional sef~ clement Of the questions involved In the separation of the heretofore dual Kingdom.
 The session was opened by King os~ car in person with the usual ceremo- nial. The members of the royal famf- ly and the members of both houses, having previously attended divine aer~ vice in the royal chapel. assembled in the immense State hall of the pariia- ment building. The Queen, the Prin'~ cesses and the ladies of the court, who wore evening dresses with jewels. oc- cupied Q gallery on the left and the diplomats. wearing court unifcruaas were seated in the right hand Ea1lefys while the spaces opened to the public were filled with people.
 King Oscar. arrayed in the royal robes of purple and ermine. with the crown on his head and the sceptrn ia his hand, the princes in their robes of ermine and blue and with their coro- nets on and the high court functicn- aries in full uniform, marched in pro- cession into the hall. while the nR- tional anthem was played. The King seated himself on tho throne. a mas sive hi9h-seated structure Of solid silver, raised on high daiH. The Crowd Sympathetic. There. surrounded by the princes and functionaries. his maiesty's command- ing figure and white hair Under tbe glittering crown. hts gray beard and | fine cut features, wearing an express sion of great gravity, attracted the sympathy of tho whole ccncourse. ! The state Marshal having taken the Kings orders gave a signal. the audi
 ence arose and the klns. in n clsar. ses1s orous voice which was heard thru1sn- | out tho hall read his speech. Hfs Majesty protested against the charge that by q violation of the con- situation he had provoked the steps taken by Norway. Z
 II have acted" he said. .in accord ance with my conscience, and always with conformity of the constitution and with the desire to work conscientious ly for the true welfare of the two peo- ples. The bill presented to the RIks- dag does not aim at replying to inius- tice by acts of coercion. The union ts not worth the sacrifices which acts Of coercion would entail An union in which Norway would be forced in such manner would be of little value to Sweden.
 The King concluded with expressing the hope that the Swedish people would be guided bys calmness and prudence and that God would give them strength and unity to regain within their own frontier what they had lost by the dis solution of the union
 At the meeting yesterday of the Council of State, which sanctioned the introduction of the bill In the Riksdag dealing with the dissolution crisis. both the King ana the Premier were on the side of a pacific solution.
 The Premiere Speech.
 Premier Ramstedt spoke first, point ing out that it was not to Sweden's interest to resort to coercive measures. He recommended therefore entering i'm to negotiations for convention by which guarantees should be obtained conducive to the mutual welfare of the two countries. In any case he declared negotiations were indispensable to definitely clear up the situation.
 The Premier suggested that delegates be appointed to this end and 1t was only after such conditional settlement and after the Riksdag had fully cou- sidsred the matter that Sweden would be in a position to decide as to her definitive approval of tho dissolution and agree to annulling the act of union
 After several members had acc quiesced in the premier's views Kfng Oscar with visible emotion spoke aa follows:
 Tt is a painful step which the ecun- cil of state calls on me to take. My conscience tells me that have during my long reign always striven toward the object I had in mind at the time of my accession. namely. the welfare of the brother peoples. It is truly painful to me to contribute to the dissolution of Q union fin which thought rested the independence. se- curity and happiness Of tho united Kingdom If. however. I am ready to act thus, 1t is in order to avoid a still more evil and in the conviction that the union without mutual accord would L.t.,- .,, reel aHvantae eo -fn CvvN2ar,