The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-12-02

between the two countries.
The Esais Tegner Fund has now
reached the respectable sum Of 1850
crowns. just how soon the statue
VIII be erected is not known. About
10000 crowns will be needed.
| Bishop Wellman has been released
from his duties ct present on account
| OF illness. Provost G. A. Hallstrom
mas been appointed to ofhciate in his
place during his illness.
NORWAY.
The general election in Norway, says
an exchange editorially, which has
| been in progress for month, is over
at last, and it appears that the new
Storthing will be. antagonistic to the
| present radical ministry. This means
! that Prime Minister Knudsen and his
! associates, who have held office by
! grace of coalition that had a narrow
| majority of three in the Storthing.
| Will nave to turn their portfolios over
next January to a new ministry made
up or conservatives and moderate lib
erals. This latter party has elected
"a members of the Storthing, clear
majority of five, while the consolidat-
cd Left and the Socialists who, by COM
plnlng, managed to turn out the Low
land and install the Knudsen ministry
The balloting has gone against them
| decidedly, although it was expected
that the granting of full suffrage rights
| 10 the women of Norway would help
the Socialists. 1t is not yet known up
on whom the Conservatives will unite
Tor prime minister, but four names
are heard: Professor Stang of the
University of Christiania, whose IA
tner and grandfather before him were
premier; General Bratlie of Christi
ania, who is the real Conservative
leader; Christian Nicholson of Rer.
gen, who won fame as premier at the
time OF the dissolution of the union
with Sweden, and who is a moderate
Liberal, and his protege, Mr.. Konow,
| also OF Bergen. The real choice, it is
said, lies between Bratlie and Konow
as Professor Stang is out of sympathy
with his party, and Mr. Nicholson is
dlsinclined to re-enter active political
lie. The political overturn in Ncr.
way will, according to many, mean an
end to the policy of Exaggerated gov
eminent control over private bust.
ness" The campaign turned largely
around the Knudsen ministry's policy
of protecting the water powers and
claiming them for the state at the ex.
piration Of the franchise grants. a
law was passed by the Storthing limit.
ing such grants to eighty years, at the
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, un.
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
airy, 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
a decided setback.
Norwegian papers state that abou
5000 Observation-Disclosures are goins
to spend the winter in Norway. About
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 few Of them come
to Norway every fall and return
to America in the spring, to resume
work as seamen en- the Great Lakes.
where 1000 Norwegians are occupied
every summer. Most of the Norwe.
CLAN birds of passage of this kind own
small farms in the vicinity of Larvik
and Tonsberg. About one hundred
Observation-Disclosures bought real es.
tate In Norway last year. It is esti.
| mated that the winter visitors will
spend about 100000 during the win.
ter.
Emigration from Norway will be
very much larger during the year 1909
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 8,497.
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 consistory of the University o.!
Copenhagen declined to accept the pro
posal of the National Geographic so.
ciety that committee, representing
the American body, be present when