The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-09-28
WILL Be NO TROUBLE
]. in SCANDINAVIA
Sweden and Norway Reach i
Final Peaceful
Agreement.
TERMS NOT MADE PUBLIC
swedes Agree to Dissolution Of the
Union, but 1t Is Believed They
Have Insisted on Demolition Of
Norwegian Notifications.
TERMS NOT MADE PUBLIC

karlstad, Sweden. Sept. 26.-After
protracted sessions, extending over
some weeks, the Norwegian and Swe-
dish delegates who met here to settle.
the terms Of separation of the two
countries this evening arrived at an
agreement on all points. The terms
were not made public.
In anticipation Of an agreement large
crowds assembled around the building
N which the meetings a been held
% witness the departure of the dele
gates. The Norwegians emerged i'm
mediately upon the conclusion of the
session, and We're on their way to
Christiania a few minutes after the
announcement was made Of the out
come of the negotiations. The Swedish
delegates remained in town for some
time, out when they did show them
selves they received an ovation and
We're escorted to their hotel by the
crowd, which. sans the Swedish ma
tional anthem. They left at midnight
for Stockholm.
Terms Not Announced.
The delegates refuse to discuss the
terms of agreement, simply saying that
they would be given out early next
week. An agreement a been anti
cipated for some days, as both sides
had been adopting c~onciliatory atti-
tudeS.
The negotiations which are now con-
Guided were peculiar in nature. On one
side the delegates We're o Swedish
ministers, who at the time of the rigs
dag decision We're leading members of
the committee which framed the Swed-
iSh conditions to assent to dissolution.
On the other side the delegates were
men who led Norway in its revolution
on June z, but who We're not guided by
any decision of the storthing. On the
contrary, their act was looked on with
suspicion by men more radical.
When Sweden's conditions We're made
many voices in Norway We're raised
against acceding to them. Premier
Nicholson, of Norway, was more con-
~servative, and seeing the consequences
to Norway of a breach with Sweden
was willing to enter into an agreement
so long as it was honorable to Norway
and preserved as much as possible her
national pride. NJ. Breiner, president
of the Norwegian storthing, and M.
IoVeland, the Norwegian foreign min
lister, were perhaps not SO willing, but
they followed Premier Nicholson.
Good Feeling Promised.
The purpose of the Swedish dele
gates Ws%>to make an agreement pre-
serving the good feeling between the
t"o pSoplSSs iloilt LII pollll, "
course, Sweden was compelled to in
sist on the demolition of the frontier
Notifications which Norway, notwith-
standing the close connection of the
countries, had erected against Sweden's
entirely unfortified frontier. The first
purpose Of the Swedish delegates was
to hurt as little as possible the
feelings of Norway, and the Swed-
ish delegates throughout the pro-
ceedings have tried to find a
way in which the fortress located
farthest from the frontier could be
made less threatening, While the others,
they commended, should be demolished.
1t is believed this point was success
fully carried. The Swedish delegates
were also anxious to preserve free and
untrammeled intercourse between the
two countries, and they therefore pro
posed that certain agreements be made
regarding transit and waterways which
were equal in enefit to both and which
would prevent one country from inter
fering with the other. 1t is believed
that these matters also were settled to
the satisfaction of both sides.
Finally, Sweden did not consider that
she could leave unprotected the inter-
ests of the poor nomadic Laplanders,
for their very existence depends on the
use of the pastures In both countries
at different seasons for their reindeer.
The Norwegians held out against the
granting or this right, which a been
established for centuries, but it is
thought they at last gave in.
That Sweden never objected to arbi-
tration is shown by the ~rigsdag's de
cision on arbitration which was first
mentioned and will agree perfectly
with SWeden'S expressed desire for
peace.
Christiania, Sept. 25.-The Norwegian
delegation arrived here from Karlstad
and was received with cheers by sew
eral thousand persons who were wait
ing at the station.
During the past week there has been
an increasing agitation over the ques-
ton of q constitution for Norway. The
republicans made great efforts to or
ganize a party, but they are hopelessly
in the minority. AS the candidature Of
a Bernadotte prince has been a5an-
doned, all attention Is now directed to
Prince Charles of Denmark, who, if he
accepts the throne, will be enthusiast
ica1lv received