New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-10
~ AND OUT or CONGRESS-
THE PROPER SPELLING OF GEOGRAPHIC
NAMES.
vrrrx WILL. CONGRESS ADJoURN7-pRoMorIoM
IN THE STATE DEPARrMENT-TouR OF
THE INDIAN BAND.

THE INDIAN BAND.
xx-asbington April Am authority whose oS
turn is paramount. so far as the Presideht ana
Congress can make II, requires that the name
tho sea now so much in discussion snouin DE- spe"e
..Rerng." and not "Behrng." Some years q"
there was established under authority Vi No"e'S
a hoard of geographic names, whose menus"
ora annointed by the President who serve WIN
az, nav and whose duty IL is 10 ascertain ana
r-omu,pate from time 10 time the proper speihns
Of geographic names in regard 10 "hich ""..'
ence OF usage prevails. Their INNINGS arc ~
lisbed in the shape Of bulletins at intervals ~
co,rnanied bv an executive order requiring I"
.arious denartmen,s OF the Government ana tns
winters of the Government printing office 10 foiow
,ho a.vnnologv recommended by the board IN az
oa,c,al communications. The home OF the fur se1
was nassed upon in the first ouieun issueu I"
This hoard They asserted that the sea SO gen
orally called "Behring" or benrlhg . 'ea' VS.
really ''Bering" Behring'S sea- 'hs' Nv
,vad its name from having been first navigated ana
charted by a Dane whose name was berihs s's
that In all the early charts II Is SO ca"eu, ~.
Tho. IN charts which afterward came into genera
use and which were engraved III uet"a"' '
name was Germanized. probably py acclpe'I@ p"
tho insertion Of an III. and BehrinS ga
has since been called. The name having oeen
long enormously spelled in nearly all 'he u'p~
,i. correspoudence that has passed on the sov
iSct
,,,,, ir spite OF the authority OF the boaru o.
,oo,ranhic names 10 the contrary, and the SEQ
was so DESIGNATED by our own state pepa' 'n.".
throughout all the proceedings OF the Ta''s Nv1'.
Of Arbitration. Nevertheless. it seems ''ed' '"..
the geographic board Is right. ana 'hat '"e a
should be written Berlns.
number of other popular errors have peeh ~
sailed by the board with more or less success, ih'
,rs,s, that the name Of the aggressive South amer.
oa,, panubl,c should be written Chile ana %"
Chilli" and that the commission whose Jaw.
close to-day IS the Chilean Commission anu NV
tho "Chillan" They also state that the pacA ~
m,blic OF the Antilles is Haiti ana NOT iia'+
and its government the "Haitien' Government A"'
rot the "Haytian.
Some of these changes in spelling. or rathei "
versions TO first principles in spelling. have oesA
rrattv generally adopted, but when the bearu
/ sisted that the country which Stanley AircAAs
| turned over 10 the King OF the Beigiahs snou1
! called the "Kongo" country, and not the o'ns,
the very Government printers reDehed' anu
! Diplomatic and Consular bill. under which our ~
resentative in that region draws his pay cans
Congo"
when will Congress ADJOURN" was asked OF HV
resentative Holman. OF Indiana. to-day . a
THE House." replied Mr.. Holman. 'coun
;ourn the last OF this month. There ia no resss
VIII both houses should not be ready to adjourn "
| the 18th Of June. 49,. "A.
"It Ia not believed" II was suggested. tnil y. ~
Senate will finish It's consideration OF the Iash "
before the middle of June In that event. al
iournment could hardly be reached FOR SIX VIZ
! - ar about the LIST OF August. could IT,
81 think that is mistake" said MI HomaH
| .rhe democrats In the Senate appreciate the nee"
| s,,v q, speeiy action the Tariff BILL ana
| mo-, will be made to pass it through that BODY .
oulckly as possible The appropriation oN,s %"
ben riedly scrutlnIzed at this session, and me.
~. amounts have been reduced as fu.iy al
siseis,ent with the necessities OF the GOVERNING
% AM in ali fairness be reduced much tutnS.
| ~ ,or that reason there ought to ne no oeIG