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The rest of the members were the Swedish Ambassador BILDT at the Court of St James, the Consul General AMÉEN in Barcelona, and the Consul General CHRISTOPHERSEN in Antwerp. LAGERHEIM, and State Secretary HUSBERG. The Norwegian members were, Prime Ministers BLEHR and QVAM, and State Secretaries KNUDSEN and IBSEN
However when the agitation for a new election for the Storthing was started later on in the year, there was a strong inclination towards negotiating, and even BJÖRNSON, among others, warmly advocated the cause of the negotiation programme, and that too, in opposition to the Radical Minister BLEHR, who, though having introduced the negotiations, was suspected of being but a lukewarm partisan to the cause.
The party for negotiation conquered, and was in the majority in the Storthing, though not in great numbers. The issue could scarcely be attributed to the Swedish proposal alone, but also in no slight degree to the miserable, impoverished condition to which the country had been brought by the old Radical government. Mr BLEHR resigned in the autumn 1903, after the elections.
In Norway much anxiety was expressed lest the negotiations should prove too binding, Norwegian politicians hate, as previously mentioned, to be bound in any way His Excellency BLEHR meanwhile imagined that he might be able to explain in the Storthing, in May 1903, that the laws will not include any restrictions for either of the two Kingdoms, in the matter of their authority, in future, to decide on questions relating to the regulation of foreign administration; or be reckoned as a proof that they had confirmed the existing terms, or bound themselves to carry them out.
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