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“The Storting hereby respectfully approaches your
Majesty, with the request that your Majesty will make use of
the authority given by the constitution in seeking to enter
into agreements with foreign powers, for the settling by
arbitration of disputes which may arise between Norway
and those powers.”
And concludes with these words:—
“In the full assurance that what the Storting here
requests will be an unqualified benefit to our people, it is
hereby submitted that your Majesty should take the
necessary steps indicated.”
A similar resolution was very near, being
voted by the Danish Folketing in 1875.
The proposition as brought forward was, May
13th, unanimously recommended by the
committee in charge, but on account of the
dissolution of the House two days later, could not be
acted upon.
Several years ago a petition was circulated
in the various districts of Denmark, by which
Parliament was urged to co-operate as early as
possible in bringing about a permanent
Scandinavian treaty of arbitration.
In such a treaty, binding in the first instance
for thirty years, the petition affirms that the
three northern kingdoms will have an efficient
moral support when there is occasion to
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