The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-03
NORWAY.


A home for sufferers from alcohol
ism is proposed. some unused govern
ment buildings being at the disposal
OF the medical society for this pur-
pose.
MOrten Mueller. the language paint
so years. He resides at Dusseldorf,
where he has spent most Of the last
two years.
The BUDGET for the t~heOlogical sem
mary has been increased to 125, 600
crowns, in order hat stipends may
be awarded to students. The task of
finding a fourth professor for the in,
stitution seems to be a hard one and
the appointive powers may have TO
seek a mar in Germany.
The storthing has voted to dispense
with the ceremony of GROWING and
amounting the rulers of Norway. The
resolution to this effect was adopted
without debate and only two votes
we're recorded in the negative, those
of Dyrland and Schauche. This action
III the part of the storthing is an indi-
cation of the democratic spirit prevail
ing in Norway.
The University of Christiania is
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most educators of the United States,
DR.. McCracken of New York univer-
sfty, and DR.. Butler of Columbia uni
versity. These distinguished scholars
will also lecture in Copenhagen and
will make an extended stay in SCandi-
navia. Their expenses will be paid
by Danish-Americans and Norwegian
Americans. who desire to bring about
more intimate relationship between
their old homes and their new.
Gunnar Knudsen, the new premier
Of Norway, had great difficulty in
forming a cabinet to take the place
of the Lovland regime, which lost its
grip on the storthing, as recorded in
| these columns last week. Few states
men of standing cared to identify
themselves with the new ministry. be-
| cause it is recognized as merely a
temporary experiment, without a ma
iority backing in the storthing. The
Lovland faction had 60 storthine
members; the Knudsen following in
| that body is only SO and could not
have forced a vote of lack of conf
! dence in the Lovland cabinet but for
the aid of the socialists and other
anti-Lovlond members. After a week
| Of hard work, a new cabinet was final
ly gotten together, being composed OF
the following, several Of whom are
novices, SO to speak, in politics:
Gunnar knudsen. premier and min
lister of finance: w. G. Christopher
son, Norway's representative at Ant
very, minister for foreign affairs;
Johan Castberg, "s~orenskrlver' In
Totem, Vardal and Biri, minister OF
| Justice; Lars Christian Abrahamsen,
"sorenskriver' in Hardanger and
NOSS, minister Vi cOlillclC e, Ndl
Sem. director of schools in Trondh-
lem county, head of the church de-
partment; Nils Claus Ihlen, a manu-
facturer and engineer, minister of Ia
Dor; T. T. Heftye, a colonel and tele-
graph director, minister of war; II. X.
Foosnes, an agriculturalist and former
member of the storthing, minister OF
agriculture.
The new cabinet has been given a
chilly reception by the public as a
whole, and would doubtless be over
thrown almost Immediately, were 1t
not for the reluctance felt by others
to under take the task OF forming a
new ministry. Hence it is not i'm
probable that this new regime will
last till the next storthing elections
In 1909. What will happen then no
one pretends at present to predict.