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had been made to pass a constitutional measure that would give
the ministers the opportunity of taking part in the Storthing’s
proceedings. Frederik Stang, the leading man in the government,
had once been its chief advocate; but after entering the ministry
that succeeded the Bireh-Motzfeldt-Sibbern ministry in 1801, he
changed his opinion, and had become an enemy to reforms. When
a private bill, brought forward in 1869, was passed by the
Storthing in 1872, it was refused sanction. Some of the members of
the council who had advised its ratification, retired, among them
Dr. O. J. Broch. In the government’s refusal of sanction in
connection with various other steps, the Storthing saw an ill-timed
assertion of authority. A great commotion ensued, and on the
13th May, 1872, a vote of want of confidence in the council was
passed, of which the king, however, took no notice.
While matters were in this condition. King Carl died
(September, 1872), and his brother Oscar II ascended the throne. In
1873 the post of statholder was abolished, pursuant to the
resolution of the Storthing in the matter, and the office of minister
of state established in Kristiania. Frederik Stang was appointed
to this post. A royal proposition concerning the state council
matter was brought before the Storthing in 1874, in which various
guarantees were demanded, such as the right of dissolution, the
fixing of the time for the sitting of the Storthing and the allowance
to the members, and a pensioning law for retired ministers. But
the same year, the Storthing passed their former resolution, which,
however, on account of the changes that had taken place in 1873,
was not altogether identical with that drawn up in 1872. But
both in 1874 and 1877, sanction was refused to the Storthing’s
resolution, while the motion of the government in the last-named
year was rejected unanimously.
The struggle between the government and the Storthing was
still further stimulated by the state council affair having become
a contention about the royal veto in constitutional matters. While
the majority in the Storthing maintained that in such matters the
king had either no veto, or at most a suspensive veto as in
ordinary legal provisions, the government and its followers held that
in such cases he must have an absolute veto. In accordance with
this, the royal sanction was refused, when, in 1880, the Storthing
passed for the third — really the fourth — time their former
resolution as to the admission of ministers to the proceedings of the
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