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Here the Norwegian Storting has set an
example which will be to its honour for all
time; for after about sixty members had joined
the interparliamentary union, and chosen
Messrs. Ullmann, Horst and Lund as
representatives to the conference in London, 1890;
and after the Arbitration resolution moved
had been adopted by the Storting (voted July
2nd, 1890, by eighty votes against twenty-nine),
a subsidy of 1,200 kroner was granted for the
travelling expenses of the three delegates to
the London conference.
This is probably the first time in the life of
the nations that a State has granted money in
support of a direct effort to make a breach in
the old system of Cain.
There is less strain in America: a similar
inception seems to be at hand. Long before
the great rousing in 1887, the present United
States Minister, James G. Blaine, was
possessed with the idea of bringing about a
peace-treaty between all the independent States of
North and South America. He stood at the
head of the Foreign Department of the Union
when General Garfield was President, 1881,
and already at that time entertained this
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