The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-09
NORWAY.

home for sufferers from alcohol.
ismais proposed. some unused govern
ment buildings being at the disposal
Of the medical society for this pur-
pose.
Morten Mueller. the language paint
er, has reached the advanced age Of
60 years. He resides at Dusseldorf
where he has spent most of the last
two years.
The budget for the theological SEM
mary has been increased to $4,000
crowns. in order that stipends may
tie awarded 10 students. The task CT
finding fourth professor for the in
stitution seems to be a hard one. and
the appoint.ve powers may have to
seek a man in Germany.
The storthing has voted to dispense
With the ceremony of browning and
amounting the rulers of Norway. The
resolution to this effect was adopted
without debate and only two votes
were recorded in the negative. those
Of Dyrland and SchaucEe. This action
on the part Of the storthing is an indi-
cation of the democratic spirit prevail
ing in Norway.
The University of Christiania is
soon 10 be visited by two of the fore
most educators of the United States,
Dr. McCracken of New York univer.
sity, 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
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
experiment, without a ma
jority backing in the storthing. The
Lovland faction had 60 storthing
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
members. After a week
Of hard work, new cabinet was final
ly gotten together, being composed of
the following, several Of whom are
aoyices, SO to speak, in politics:
Gunnar Knudsen, premier and min
lister of finance; w. c. Christopher
son. Norway's representative at Ant
very, minister for foreign affairs;
Johan Castberg. "sorensl1river" in
Totem. Vardal and Biri, minister of
Justice; Lars Christian Abrahamsen,
in Hardanger and
voss. minister of commerce: Karl
Seip, director Of schools in Trondh-
jem county. head OF the church de-
partment; Nils Claus Ihlen. manu-
Facturer and engineer. minister OF la
Dor; 7. T. Heftye. a colonel and tele-
graph director, minister of war: H. X.
an agriculturalist and former
of the storthing, minister of
agriculture.
The new cabinet has been given
chilly reception by the public as a
whole, and would doubtless be over
thrown almost immediately, were it
not for the reluctance felt by others
10 under take the task of forming
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.