We beg Your Majesty to accept the assurance of our full recognition of Your Majesty's difficult position and of our invaried esteem. But paramount are our duties towards the Fatherland. Christiania, June 6, 1905. _Chr. Michelsen._ _J. Loevland._ _Sofus Arctander._ _Gunnar Knudsen._ _W. Olssoen._ _E. Hagerup Bull._ _Chr. Knudsen._ _Harald Bothner._ _A. Vinje._ _Kr. Lehmkuhl._ 22. The King's telegraphic protests against the abdication of the Norwegian Government. To _the Prime Minister_. I have received the communication of the Cabinet Ministers and I record a most decided protest against the method of action of the Government. _Oscar._ * * * * * To _the President of Storthing_. Having this morning received from the Government the communication of the Cabinet Minister's resolution to resign their posts and to inform the Storthing of it I want herewith to make known that, in a telegram to M. Michelsen, Prime minister, I have recorded a most decided protest against their method of action. _Oscar._ 23. The Reasons for the decision proposed by the President, in the Storting, on the 7th June 1905. Having on behalf of the Storthing received open information from the head of the Government that the several members of the Cabinet council have one and all resigned hereby declare: We were all prepared for the situation in which we now find ourselves. In meetings of the representatives, the question has therefore been discussed as to what measures would be taken by the Storthing to meet the necessities of such a situation. Every representative has had an opportunity for making known his personal opinions at these meetings respecting the situation and its demands. On this day the Storthing must make known its decisive resolutions. I must also permit myself to express the wish, that these resolutions may be unanimously accepted, and without debate. In respect to the communication given by the head of the Government I propose that the Storthing shall make the following resolutions: The different members of the Council having resigned office, His Majesty the King having declared Himself unable to form a new government, and the Constitutional Sovereign having resigned his powers, the Storthing authorizes the members of the Council who resigned this day, to assume until further notice, as the Norwegian government, the authority granted the King in accordance with the Constitution of the Norwegian Kingdom and its valid law--with the changes that become necessary through the fact that the Union with Sweden under one King is dissolved as a consequence of the King having ceased to act as King of Norway. 24. The address of the Storthing to King Oscar, dated Christiania, June 7, 1905. Your Majesty,