Morris tribune., 1909-12-03

iher strengthen the friendly relations
between the two countries.
The Esais Tegner Fund has now
reached the respectable sum Of 14.50o
crowns. just how soon the statue
will be erected is not known. About
10000 crowns will be needed.
Bishop Welfman has been released
from his duties at present on account
of illness. Provost G. A. Hallstrom
has been appointed to officiate in his
place during his illness.
NORWAY.
The general election In Norway, says
an exchange editerially, which has
been in progress for month, Is over
at last, and it appears that the new
Storthing will be antagonistic to tha
present radical ministry. This means
that Prime Minister Knudsen and his
associates, who have held office by
grace of a coalition that had narrow
majority of three in the Storthing.
will have to turn their portfolios over
next January to new ministry made
up of conservatives and moderate lib
erals. This latter party has elected
81 members Of the Storthing, clear
majority of five, while the consolidat-
ed Left and the Socialists who, by COM
bining, managed to turn out the Low
land and install the Knudsen ministry.
The balioting has gone against them
decidedly, although it was expected
that the granting Of full suffrage rights
to the women of Norway would help
the Socialists. It is not yet known up
on whom the Conservatives will unite
for prime minister, but four names
are heard: Professor Stang Of the
/ University of Christiania, whose IA.
ther and grandfather before him were
premier; General Bratlie of Christi.
ania, who is the real Conservative
! leader; Christian Nicholson of Ber,
gen, who won fame as premier at the
time of the dissolution of the union
with Sweden, and who is moderate
| Liberal, and his protege, Mr.. Konow,
also of Bergen. The real choice, it is
said, lies between Brat1ie and Konow,
as Professor Stang is out of sympathy
with his party, and Mr.. Nicholson ls
disinclined to re-enter active political
life. The political overturn in Ncr.
way will, according to many, mean an
end to the policy of exaggerated gov.
ernment control over private busi.
ness" The campaign turned largely
around the Knudsen ministry's policy
of protecting the water powers and
! claiming them for the state at the e1.
piration of the franchise grants. A
law was passed by the Storthing limit
ing such grants to eighty years, at tho
expiration of which the powers, ex.
cept those under 1000 horse, power.
revert to the state, with all the works
by which they are controlled. The
Conservatives would like to repeal
this law, but will scarcely do SO, rll.
less they offer an acceptable substi.
tute. The Norwegian protectorate is
thought to be strongly for conservation
Of water power, despite the results OF
the election, and the Conservatives will
+; have to proceed with great caution IN
striving to undo the radical legislation.
When the Strothing meets next Janu.
ary, there will be lively times in the
political affairs of Norway. Mean
/ while the Socialists and their allies OF
the extreme left, seem to have suffered
q decided setback.
Norwegian papers state that about
5000 wegian-Americans are going
I to spend the winter in Norway. Abou!
| 10 per cent of them are expected to
settle for good in Norway. Nearly all
of them have saved money in America
and most of them have spent from
six to ten years there. A few of them
| have spent as much as forty years
there. Quite a few Of them come
to Norway every fall and return
to America in the spring, to resume
! work as seamen on the Great Lakes
| where 1000 Norwegians are occupied
| every summer. Most of the Norwe
gian birds of passage of this kind own
small farms in the vicinity of Larvik
] and Tonsberg. About one hundred
orwegian-Americans bought real es
tate in Norway last year. It Is esti
mated that the winter visitors will
spend about $50O,0o0 during the win
| ter.
Emigration from Norway will be
very much larger during the year 1908
| than it was during the year previous
! though hardly as large as it was the
| year 1907. In that year the number
who left Norway was 22,135, but last
year the number was reduced to S,497
| During the first six months of the pres.
ent year 1886 left the fatherland for
| other parts. The United States re.
ceived the bulk of these sturdy Morse.
men.
DENMARK.
The censistory of the University OF
Copenhagen declined to accept the pro.
| posal Of the National Geographic so
ciety that committee, representing
the American body, be present when