Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-22

| announced tAat two councillors of
state, namely Measrs. Haserup Ball
and. yinje, had resigned from the main
istry and had been succeeded by Abra-
| ham Rerge and Sven Aarestad. While
| it is stated that the designations were
entirely voluntary, the opposition and
| some of the conservative press OF Nor
way incline to the view that the two
| councillors were sacrificed In order to
arpease the big leftist majority in the
storthing, which demanded that the
government adopt it's program Or
platform. Even President Berner, one
of the staunchest supporters of the
| government in his pre-$ection.
speeches, saw fit to amend his resolu-
| ton sustaining the government 80 as
| to meet the views of the leftfsts. The
| two changes leave only Councillors
Lemkuhl and OLSON as the representa-
tives OF the conservative and moder-
ate elements in the government 1t
has been intimated that both will be
compelled to retire in favor OF vowed
| leftists before many months have
passed, but at present there Is no
ground for such surmise. The two
men who have retired from the gov
eminent were members Of the coali
ton ministry formed in March, 1905,
which steered Norway through par
ticularly delicate crisis. Both afA men
of acknowledged ability. They will
both be taken care Of and Hagerup-
Bull has already been appointed as
SCISSOR in the supreme court.
G. Hauge, minister from Norway,
called at the White House Dec. 10 and
Informed President Roosevelt that the
Norwegian storthing had conferred on
him the Nobel peace prize. A mes
sage to the same effect came from
Mr.. Lovland. chairman of the Nobel
committee. who conveyed to the presi-
dent hearty good wishes and an ex-
preston of high esteem. United
States Minister PIERCE, at Christiania,
had been told of the action Of the COM
mittee ON Dec. I and In advising the
president preferred his profound con-
CALCULATIONS ION the well merfted
recognition Of your great and wise in
in compliance with the request made
by the Norwegian minister of foreign
affairs and If agreeable to the prest-
dent he be delegated to receive the
diplomat medal and prize. The
amount of money represented in the
prize is 1885 crowns, or $37, 1877. 65.
The founder Of the Methodist church
in Norway was Rev. 0. P. Petersen.
He was converted in America in 1E46.
He returned to his home country and
in 1858 began to preach. Three years
later Rev G. WiIlerUp was sent to
Norway to be the head OF the work be-
gun there. The work has steadily
continued. IN September the 50th an
niversary of the founding was cele-
brated in Norway. There are now
forty-five congregations, having
membership of 6,272 members. There
are fifty-six Sunday schools, with
1918 pupils, instructed by 635 teach
ers. The church property has value
of 963. 300 crowns. The Indebtedness
on the property is 273.363 crowns.
Edward Grieg, the eminent COM
poser. who received a gift Of $4,000
crowns on his Goth birthday, has now
in turn donated this sum to the city
Of Bergen, where said amount shall
constitute a music fund. There is
no doubt but what Bergen-the home
of the now famous Grieg-will respond
generously to this fund. Mr.. Grieg
will spend the winter in Norway and
England. Many efforts have been
made to induce the composer to come
to America, but thus far such efforts
have been fruitless.
1t will not do for military officers
to address each other as "du' (Thou)
any more. The war department has
issued an order to the effect that this
style Of addressing the men in the
ranks must be eliminated entirely. The
order has been met with much salts
faction by the soldiers, who will now
have the pleasure of being addressed
by name by their superiors.
Storthings Representative Egede
Nissen has been summoned to give an
account Of himself before the czar Of
all the Russias because he published
the so-called Representations" the
contents of which are alleged to have
been of a revolutionary characaer. Mr..
Nissen has engaged Lieutenant Punter-
void as his attorney and intends to
fight his case to finish.
Admirals Spare ana Barreson have
of late been enga geds in a wrangle
which has melted one of the daily
newspapers in Christiania to question
whether it wouldn't be good idea to
have only one admiral instead of two.
The suggestion has brought about
some pertinent comment by the Christi
ania and Trondhjem papers.
According to Copenhagen papers
Riornstjerne Rpornson's latest novel,
"Mary" netted him $4,000 crowns.