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Neither are the Scandinavian Parliaments
unaffected by this movement.
As far back as 1869 the question of
arbitration was mooted in the Swedish Parliament
by Jonas Jonassen. In 1874 he proposed in the
second chamber that Parliament should submit
to the King “that it would behove his majesty
on all occasions that might present themselves
to support the negotiations which foreign powers
might open with Sweden or with each other with
reference to the creation of a tribunal of
arbitration for the solving of international disputes.”
The committee which dealt with the
proposition advised its acceptance. The Lower
House passed it, March 21st, by seventy-one
votes against sixty-four; but the Upper House
rejected it.
The miserable dealing of the Parliament of
1890 with the question I shall have occasion to
refer to further on.
In the same year, the question made
surprising advance in Norway. On March 5th the
Storting voted on the motion of Ullmann and
many others, by eighty-nine votes against
twenty-four, an address to the King, which
begins thus:—
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