New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-08-05

Mr.. Gunther and the punishment OF
Mr.. Mccullough, the owner of the
American steam yacht Pauline. The
incident arose through the defiance Of
the harbor masters order to change
the anchorage of the Pauline, which
occupied the space reserved for the
German emperor's yacht Meteor. The
Christiania papers say that when the
official made his request in polite
terms Mr.. Gunther called him fool
and threatened to knock him down.
1t is also charged that Mr.. Gunther
struck at the harbor master and
knocked his cap of. A later dispatch
from Christiania says: Franklin b.
Gunther. secretary Of the American
legation. has given out the following
statement regarding allegations made
by the Norwegian papers that he 40.
saulted the harbor master of Chris
tian1a several days ago when that Of.
cial ordered the steam yacht Pauline,
on which Mr.. Gunther was guest, to
shift her anchorage: The occurrence
in question grew out of the apparent
ly great anger and violent attitude OF
Norwegian harbor police official be-
cause an English yacht had anchored
in certain location In the harbor.
| A prominent Norwegian gentleman
and myself were guests of an Amer.
lean gentleman and his wife aboard
the vessel. My sole connection with
! the affair was that l insisted that an
American invalid lady on board should
not be frightened by the conduct of
| the official, who unexpectedly climb
ed aboard while the lady's husband,
who had chartered the vessel, had
gone ashore. There was no physical
clash between myself and the official
and the unscrupulous public ex parte
statements as to improper. language
having been used by me are. absolute.
ly false. was informed by the cap.
tain of the vessel that he was perfect
ly willing at all times to comply with
the harbor regulations. However, my
! official position prevents me from Civ.
ing the facts or expressing my opin
ion regarding the conduct, of the Off
cial. / have declined to deny or com.
ment upon the statements appearing
in Chrfstiania papers and feel con
fident that the Norwegian authorities
will take proper cognizance of the
offense to myself and Others
j. j. +
The question of permitting Nor
wegian Lutheran ministers from
America to preach in the churches OF
Norway was recently discussed by
Minister of Church Bryggesaa, who
said in part: In recent times the
church department is continually be-
ing asked to permit ministers not be.
longing to the state church clergy to
use the churches for services. Under
those circumstances l found that the
most reasonable arrangement would
be to change the fundamental rules
for the. use of the churches. We are
at present occupied with this problem
in our department and the intention
is that minister's belonging to the
larger church associations in America
shall be put on an equal footing with
the Norwegian ministers as to the
right Of using the churches for serv.
ices. 1t is not easy to tell when the
new rules will be completed. The de.
partment cannot settle the matter un.
til the theological faculty and the
| bishops Of the country have been
heard. and that takes some time.
This question can be settled by q
royal decree. But there is another
!, question which must be disposed of
in another way, namely, chance for
Observation-Disclosures ministers to hold
offices in the state church of Norway.
or, in other words, the right for other
than Norwegian citizens to hold cleri-
cal Offices. In my opinion this qlles-
ton cannot be settled except by an
amendment to the constitution. But
the question deserves consideration
and the department is paying atten-
ton to IT,"
1. +
The visit of Governor Hanna Of
North Dakota to Norway gave some
fine advertising to the entire North
west, in the opinion of General A. I.
Berg of the North Dakota national
guard, who has just returned from
Norway. AT the banquet given on
! the night of July 4, when Governor
Hanna sat at the right hand of the
king of Norway, the. governor gave
the people Of Norway splendid i'm
preston of the Northwest. He paint
, ed for them the success Of Norwegian
! immigrants and pictured the part
they were playing in the upbuilding
of the vast region"
! !. + !.
Norwegian government officials are
now taking wholly different view of
the Panama exposition to be held at
San Francisco next summer and the
chances are that steps will be taken
to have Norway well represented. At
first it appeared that Norway was dis
posed to look with Indifference on the
San Francisco fair, thinking that it