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of the report of the committee would show that
the Chamber had now changed its opinion, they
had before them sufficient reason for this. He
wondered that a resolution of such a nature as
this had been brought forward, so soon after
the unpleasant experience which the country
and people of Sweden lately had in a so-called
decision by arbitration. “The Chamber will
please to remember,” continued the speaker,
“that the king, with no authority from the
Riksdag, agreed with Spain to appeal to
arbitration upon the difficulties that had arisen on
the right understanding of the prolonged
commercial treaty with Spain. Also the Chamber
will please to remember that this arbitration
tribunal neither acted upon the plan settled in
the agreement, nor did it act in harmony with
the instructions of the treaty; and what was
worse, the so-called, or supposed, sentence
which this one-man arbitration tribunal passed
did not concern the matter, which according to
the agreement was to have been settled by
arbitration, but quite another, which could not
reasonably be subjected to arbitration—though
the matter was, so far as we were legally
concerned, made to appear as though Sweden had
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