Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-08
Greet the President
At Hartford, CT.
HisAddress Upon The Sub
jeci OfWorId Arbitration
Is AppIauded 10 The Echo by
The Vast AssembIage.
United States The Hope Of The
World in This Matter.
Urges Senate to Make Step Toward
Universal Peace.

Hartford. Conn. Sept. To a Con-
nectieat audience $4,000 strong. mass
ed uncn the home stretch of Charter
oak race track, this afternoon. Pres
idcnt Taft spoke on arbitration De
tween nations. IT was such an aa-
diencr as is seldom seen IN this state,
for most of Il had been drawn from
the hin and valley towns where ag-
ricultural pursuits are followed, aud
To most of the people the President
was an unfamiliar figure. despite his
many and frequent visits 10 the state
President Taft was both the guest
pf the state and Of the Connecticut
Fair Association. and his address
followed q state luncheon given IN
the new Memorial hall on Capitol
Hill Short as was his visit here If
was one Of action. lie WAS whirled
from Che luncheon n little late by the
program TO the fair grounds three
miles away. finding the crowd anxious
for him to appear. lie was placed up
on platform within the track en-
closure where Coy. Baldwin intro
duced him. A rope held back The
people. but the President Immediately
asked that the barrier be taken down
and then the people rushed forward
TO within sound of his voice.
The address was intently listened %.
and even il many thousands could
scarcely make out what he said. yet
the President was in excellent Voice
Thine and again. the Presidents
plea for an arbitfal court between the
great nations of the world was en-
Enthusiastically applauded. AT the close.
owing to the short time remaining
before his departure. the President
was unable to receive more than
few who were in his immediate neigh
llorhaed Then he returned To his
motor ear and was driven into the
city. leaving for Boston AZ o'clock.
sfter paying tribute TO the persist
cnt energy of the Connecticut farmer
in tilling somewhat unwilling soil,
the President plunged at once into a
discussion of the three principal
clauses of the arbitration treaties.
He quoted literally from his recen.
on the same subject. He endeavorec
to show that benefits aecruing to the
high contracting parties and the sup
port which his movement was receiv-
ING from peaee societies ard CONNER
cial organizations,
Perhaps the most significant part of
his address was as follows:
THE majority of the Senate COM
snittee on foreign relations say that
they carnot consent that somebody
else shall decide for them where u
question arising in the future is with
in the provisions of the first article
III this treaty, that for them 10 do SO
is 10 delegate their power to another
tribunal and is t6 bind themselves by
an obligation which thes have no
power 10 assume
IT is the view of the minority, how
ever. and with that view | am ear
nestly in accord that the issue where
Il future difference shall be within the
terms of the description of Article /
of the treaty is an international ques-
ton arising out of construction of
the treaty under n claim of right by
one Of the parties to an arbitration.
and is a question. therefore, that the.
President and Senate. acting as the
treaty making power, have the right
to agree by treaty to submit to a tri-
bunal for final judgment. In what diff
ferent way is the treaty making power
. invoked when we ask the Senate 10
concur in a treaty which agrees to
submit all justiciabie differences to ar
bifration the question where a differ
ence arising is justiciable or not under
the treaty ] confess that | cannot see
the distinction. 1t is n well-known fact
that Norway and Sweden have made
an agreement to settle all differences
except those of vital interest and ma
tional honor by submission to The
Hague tribunal and they have further
agreed that when they differ as to
where the controversy arising is arbi-
trable under the treaty or is within the
exception. tn submit that question to
the Board of Arbitration for its final
decision.
'sNof if I understand the attitude of
the majority of the Senate commit
tee it Is that they have no power and
therefore. the government has no pow
er to enter into a treaty whereby We
shall agree to submit to a third per-
son, constituting an independent tribu-
nal. the question where we are bound
under a treaty to abide the judgment
of the tribunal as to a particular is
i sue. The treaty making power under
J Hhe constitution. it has been decided
by tbs supreme court hardly knows
definition or limit. II Is one of the
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