The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-07
(special from United Press.)

SldllOu, IA6SAdCIIl idII eAA AAA'OA here at 12:30, this afternoon, on his visit to the Connecticut Fair.
 The Presidential party was at once ushered into carriages for the short parade through the principal streets to the state library building. The line of march was appropriately de- corated in the national colors. Presi- dent Taft and Governor Baldwin, Major Butt and State Adjutant Gen. eral Cole rode in the first carriage. The police and military escorted them on either side.
 The enthusiastic reception accorded the President and the march to the scene of the state luncheon was with out incident.
 The hundreds of guests at the luncheon were seated in the shape of a horseshoe. At the luncheons close, Governor Baldwin, calling upon Pres ident Taft for a few remarks, said:
 ''The state of Connecticut is proud to welcome, today, to this memorial hall one whose presence here lends it henceforth a new memory, never to be forgotten
 .sHe came to Connecticut in his youth for his collegiate education and is the first son of Yale to fill the great office of President of the United States.
 No man, since the days of John Quincy Adams, ever entered on that office with so good training for It, training as a newspaperman, as lawyer, as an internal revenue col lector, as a judge of a state court as a judge of a Federal court, as pro- lessor in law school, as solicitor general of the United States, as Pres1- dent of the Philippine Commission, Us Governor Of the Philippines, as Gov ernor of Cuba and as cabinet minis ter.
 way to the fair under my safe con- duct in the matter of speechmaking. have assured him that shall say but a few words and that a few will be expected of him.. For these have now the honor to call upon the PreSl- dent of the United States"
 In response, President Taft made a brief reply. He said that he felt very much at home in the building through which he had just been shown and he expressed great admiration for It's beauty and dignity which he said were most appropriate for it's purpose.
 The President paid a big compliment to Governor Baldwin as a jurist Of international fame and spoke of the many legal discussions he had en- joyed with the states chief executive
 He then spoke of his association with Connecticut in Yale and for the
  they have done in building up sound political institutions and taking a large share in the educational work of the country. After the luncheon guests had met the President he was taken out to the fair grounds. He dis played great interest in the different agricultural shows. The woman's 1n- dustria1 exhibit received especial mo- tice.
 Awaiting him in the big stands ar the racetrack and standing packed hundreds deep in the oval were 10000 anxious to hear the Presidents speech. In the mob were hundreds of farmers whose presence was in the nature of a repudiation of their state grange officers, the latter having drowned on the Presidents coming on account of his reciprocity leanings.
 Taft's Speech.
 President Taft spoke in part as follows at Charter Oak Park:
 "I think know the people of Con- in their wonderful industry and in their mechanical and business in- genuity. With the rest of my coun- trymen, I have a feeling of gratitude for this old state which has done so much for the education and promise of the country, which has sent out from it's colleges and universities men 10 become the leaders of education and thought in other parts of the United States, and whose honorable history from the Earliest times when her people stood for thsir charter our admiration. You have recently selected a descendant of Roger Sher- man as your Governor. I am honor ed to receive his welcome. My first lessons in constitutional law were learned at Governor Baldwin's feet and I am glad to know that he sus- tains me in my view of the question which I propose to discuss with you, today.
 q don't find myself as competent to discuss scientific agriculture and its progress as men who are actually gaged in it. would like, there fore, to invite your attention away from. The ordinary events, whether social, business or political, to a cause that is world wide and in respect to Connecticut may properly exercise a most helpful influence. I refer to the question of ratification of the general arbitration treaties now pending be- fore the Senate, between England anG this country, and between France and bring to your attention the issue which has been raised in the com fnittee on foreign relations between the majority and the minority.
 NOW, the plnCn Wnlcn mas come in the Senate between the majority and minority of the committee, is in relation to the power given under the treaty to the joint high commission to decide conclusively for both parties by a unanimous vote. or a vote lack ing one of unanimity, whether given difference which has arisen is within the description of article 1, so that both parties are bound by arti- cle 1, of the treaty, to submit it to arbitration in accordance with the terms of the treaty. The majority of the Senate committee say that the Senate cannot consent that somebody else shall decide for them whether a question arising in the future is with in the description of article 1; that for them to do so is to abdicate their functions as a Senate; is to delegate their powers to another tribunal, and is to bind themselves by an obliga- ton which they have no power to as- Sume.
 'I have stated frankly how remark able seems to me the reasoning by which the majority of the committee arrive at the conclusion that the con- stitution precludes their making a treaty of arbitration in which the