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The following Scholarships will be awarded on the results of the Mast culat on Examination. THIETEEN PARTIES IN COMMONS. piovided that candidates of
manded 145 votes an absolute permanent-This rafonu was forty-gradesca lo has disappeared, majority hat in the upper cham-embarked upon last summer the nobles and large landowners bar it. wat in a minority of 62, but it could not be constita in the country and the wealthy against 86 Conservatives. In this tionally carried through burghers in the towns will have of without the upper chamber's no more say in one chamber than enumeration I leave Tout
Left-Socialist consent; and the Conservative they have in the other. The secouni the foundation, which has twelve threw M. Eden's first hill incon chambers, in addition to having new sani-Bolshevik majority in the upper chamber objection is still made that both party 4
functions, as haa Stockholm, December 27.-representatives in the lower tinently out. A violent quan- the same
the -case all along, Sweden's constitutional struggle, chamber. These Socialists revolutionary agitation followed, been which has been raging and a cannot be considered as for or and the upper chamber was will in future also represent NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN aimes taking very threatening against the constitutional reform, threatened with revolution unless the same interests, and that will esimenes on MONDAY,
being ait gave way. But M. Eden and therefore the real intent of two July 14th 1919. forms ever since the present their programme Liberal-Socialist Cabinet assum-complete change of national his followers failed to effect any chamber government will cease,
Forms of entry and all ad power in September, 1017, instimtious by force, if nothing: and they postpone the and this objection seems valid particulars can be obtained on reform until the Riksdag of in essentials, Sweden will be application to the Registrar, has ended with a reticallycossary
The reform of the upper 1919.
one chamber country like Finland The University, Hongkong." unqualified victory of the parties
During the same session of the and Greece, and thereby one of reform. This is the first chamber, which the Cabinet of
Each e' try fons, duly filled in, substantial fruit in a neutraltober, 1917, set abont, is Riksdag the upper house throw unanimous demand of the extremust reach the Registrar, to country of the German and Selen's most important dom-fout the cabinet's other great remist Left parties everywhere elegether with the fee (Tax dollars, Austriau cataclysms. '
estic political enterprise of the forra-vates for women for this in Europe will be strengthened.
`on/kòng CurreLcy) on or befäre In 1866, reform all Liberals and Socialists-New Ford Evening Post. 7th May 1919. Two months ago it was aflast half-century.
sacie kind sicod firmaly, and practically all certainty that the serious issues after much the which divided the
Swedish of struggle, the original Conservatives opposed. In this parties would not be settled Swedish Legislature, the four-matter Sweden is beland her bofoze 1919, and it was doubtful chambered States-General (an in-neighbours; in Finland women if they would be settled even stitution which survived forty have had the vote aiuce 1006. her. The anti-reform parties year longer in Sweden's former in Norway since 1913, and in were strong and obdurate, and dependency, Fiulaud), was swept Denmark since 1915; and in they had bally defeated the away; and the present two-all three countries the reform chambered Riksdag was institut-ha- been a succes. Since the would-be reforcing Government.į But within a week of the Kaiser'sjel. In 1909 the lower chamber German revolution the refusal of vodication the struggle hai was re-formed on the basis of the vote to woman is practically still more universal sutrage. The upper confined to the Latin countries of began again in a
M. facute forth; the vacillating chamber remained much like Europe, in which,
"Catholic wrote, Tel. No. 1913. Cabinet bad declared the English House of Lords, Clemencean
in constitution enlture and the system of women's that the universal revolution-undemocratic
differentiate our 28, Des Voeux Rdary ferment compelled it to act and permanently conservative in education
The Chamber is not, feminism from the feminism of at once, and the anti-reformers policy. had been so thoroughly frightened however, hereditary. It contains the rest of the world." In Sweden Central.
movenient for women's by the events happening ou the 150 member, a Sixth of whom the southern side of the Baltic that are elected every year, to sit for suffrage has not been strong, or
But the at least ims Det G.P.O. Box 444.in a fortnight they went further terms of six years.
been in making concessions than they franchise is undemocratic, voting demonstrative; and the rain had done during the whole pre being indirect and on a property liberal and Scialist motive for ceding fourteen months. Thereby basis, which somewhat resembles pressing it as a conviction Sweden got practically a new the graded system of the recently that it is democratic and would Constitution, and was set beside abolished Prussian Landtag. therefore strengthen their the The inmediate electors are the temocratic parties' position in Norway and Denmark among Europe's most damocratie, states. provincial councils and the urban the Riksdag.
The issues decided in the sad rural municipal councils. The absence of parliamentary Sweden has struggle were three, reform of To vote in an election to these government in the Upper House, votes for women, councils one must have sa income always been a reproach in the and goveniment by parliamentary of 3,000 crowns a year or possess eyes of those who consider this majority as opposed to the present taxable property worth 50,000 stem of cabinet rule identical unsettled yinu unler which crowns. One vote is allowed for with democracy. On this matter cabinets with a majority in the every crown of income up to there is a Swedish prejudice, Riksdag alterLate with non- 1,000 crown 12,000 in the cities) with a good historical foundation eighteenth political" or "efficient" cabinets, and for every 500 crowns after dating from the Comped largely of disting that, and a wealthy person may century. Then, when party gov nished citizens who are outside have as many.43 forty rotes, ernment elsewhere was confined the party ruggle. Of this that being the legal limit to England, the Swedish "Hat" question of parliamentaris Before the war the average work-and "Cap" factions struggled for little was beard during the crisis, ing man or passant had no say at power in the State --General; and because no legislative proposal all in the composition of the apper as they won or lost, "Hat" and ren held executive concerning it was brought up chamber; daring the war, as a "Cap
The struggle between Bus parliamentry government, it result of the enormous rise in power. was understood, could be con- wages due to the depreciation of the factions was almost unpre- idere-l established only if the money, this condition tended to cedented for farocity; a dist- with Russia was cabinet won on the other two change; but the majority in the strous questions. Of these two, votes upper chamber remained cunthe result; the finances were for women was conceded by its servative. It opposed most of the ruined, and the nation breathed advocated by the freely when this perversion of opponents toward the close of measure the struggle; but the question of Liberol-Socialist majority in the democracy was put an end to by reform of the Upper House re lower house, and it was confi leat a coup d'etat planned by a new mained un lecided" almost to the of its ability to resist any drastic King. Gustav III.
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For a hundred years Sweden's The advocates of the reforms In spite of a violent and even cabinets were appointed by the wore the present cabinet of Prof. threatening popular agitation sovereign with little regard for Nils Edea and its. Liberal and daring the past half a dozen Rikadag majorities, but of late Socialist supporters in both years, the upper chamber held its the parliamentary system bas chambers of the Rikadag. At own. It constitutional position crep: in, without, however, fad- the last general election, in was wall defined, and in wrecking ing a firm basis. The last Con-INSECTOX OUTFITS" naising of September. 1917, both these progressive measures it was well servative Premiers, M. Hammar- parties made
the so-called within its rights. In law the two skjold and M. Schwartz, ruled three years, "Constitution Question," which chambers are equal; bills are firmly for over embrace all the problema men-usually submitted to both at in spite of large hostile major- in the lower chami- tioned above the chief plank the same time, and if a dispute rities
This na-parliamentary in their platform; while the third arises both vote together and ber. great party, the Conservative, the joint majority decides. The system received a serious blow The opposed. The Conservative assault upon the upper chamber by the 1917 elections. Cabinet of M. Schwartz was, therefore, not a matter of Liberi-Socialist victory com was then is power. It was constitutional law but of policy, pelled M. Schwartz to resign, and badly defeated. The Conserva-Many individual Swedes claimed the new Premier; M. Elen, work- tives, who went into the election that the best way of reform was ed harmoniously with the new with 86 seats, come out of it with complete abolition of the cham- majority. This agitation had its 57; M. Schwartz had to resign;ber, to be followed by one-cham-effect. The party representatives and Prof. Eden formed a cabinet ber government, but the Liberals in the joint Riksdag committee which had an emphatic popular (including the Premier) stand for came to an agreement, which in mandate to force the reforms the two-chamber system, and the the maia embodied a surrender through. M. Eden is himself a moderate Socialists are divided by the Conservative party, and Liberal; but as the Liberal party on the issue. Only the Left-which guarantee! the successful had only 02 seats out of 230 in Socialists stand solidly for a pushing through of the, reforms. Next year, when the other bijis the new Riksdag, he formed a coali- single chamber. tion with the moderate Socialists, The cabinet decided, therefore, agreed upon are passed Sweden who had 86 seats, and took to democratize the electoral will have a wholly modern and into his дет cabinet three basis; that is, to broaden the wholly democratic constitution. [Socialist: M. Branting, founder franchise to the provincial and The country's total vote, includ- of Sweden's Social-Democratic municipal councils which electing the new women voters, will In that be increased three-fold. The party and the first Socialist to sit the upper chamber. in a Swedish legislature; Baron way these councils would be indirect system of election to the Palmstierna and M. Ryden. Liberalized or Socialized, and in upper chamber, which is to be After some months in office M, due time the upper chamber retained, will not prevent that democratic would be occupied by parties in chamber being as Branting resigned.
the lower with In the lower (Democratic) much the same relative strength as
permanent Liberal-So- chamber of the Riksdag this as in the lower chamber, where its 'Liberal-Socialist coalition com- the Liberal-Socialist majority is cialist majority. Now that the
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