The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20
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CHRoNlCLED.
70 SPHL IN SANB old NAY
Public Documents WIN Again Be
Printed in Old Fashioned Style
SimpliAed Order Takes Back Seat.

Washington.-President Roosevelt,
will withdraw his simphAnd spelling
order to the public printer and here
after oil documents Of the executive
.departments win be again printed
in the old fashioned style.
Representative Landies, Of the joint
committee on spelling, had q eonfer-
ence with the president, when the
president said that he did not wish
to have spelling overshadow matters
Of great Importance and expressed
q Willingness to revoke his order for
che new spelling in case the house
of representatives should 60 on record
,as opposed to the system. Aceordin-
ely Mr.. Lands introduced the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, That it is the sense Of
the house Of representatives that
hereafter in presenting resolution,
documents or publications authorized
by law ordered by congress or either
branch thereof, emanating from the
executive departments, their bureaus
and branches and independent Office
shall observe and adhere to the stand
ard of photography prescribed in gen
orally accepted dictionaries Of the
English language. !"
The measure was passed without
a dissenting vote, although Mr.. Gil
lette, of Massachusetts,, who made a
fight for simplifed spelling before the
house committee on appropriations and
has been regarded as the champion of
the president attitude, explained
that he did not wish to give the impress
sion that he changed his mind. Mr..
Gillette said that he saw that the
house was overwhelmingly against the
innovation and consequently he bowed
to it's will.
The system Of reform spelling was
put into effect by the president dur
ing the recess Of congress and all pub
lie documents supplied to the execu-
tive departments have been printed in
the simplifed way. These documents
have been pouring in ever since the
opening day, much to the dissatisfac-
tion of large majority Of the mem
bers of the house. AS a result the
government printing office was using
two forms of spelling in public print
ing the staid old method in the execu-
tive departments. This causd a con-
fusion and comment unavoidable 10
the reform and finally was made an
issue between the executive and leg
islative departments, the judicial
departments having previously frown-
ed upon the presidents order.
The committee Oh printing Submit
ed the following report:
In the various reprints Of the con-
sitution of the United States adher-
ence to the original spelling is found
in the majority of eases. The spelling
in the original statutes reflects the
forms of spelling in vogue at the time
Of their enactment. The various cod
ifcations Of the statutes reflect the
spelling in vogue at the time Of the
adoption of such Qualifications. The
last codifcation presented was in 1873.
The subsequent statutes now number
fourteen volumes covering a period
of twenty-eight years.
Each volume reflects the spelling
in vogue at the time. A new codifca-
cation is about to be presented to con-
gress. Until congress shall see fit
to order the printing Of this proposed
codifcation of the statutes embracing
all he enactments, of the law-making
power of the government now in force
in some form Of spelling other than
THAT adopted generally, it will appear
to be the part of wisdom for the gov
eminent IN all of it's branches in
the interest of simplicity and econo-
my to adhere to uniform system Of
spelling, and this system should be
the one almost generally recognized
by the people.
If congress shall adhere to the
form Of spelling already in vogues as
applied to the statutes it would APP
pear ANOMALOUS to employ some other
form as applied to all Of the prelimi
nary stages Of legislation, including
the proceedings Of congress up to the
point where the proceedings are crys-
talized into law, and at this point or
der a change in the spelling of the
perfected legislation to preserve har-
nony in tn photography Of national
statutes.
1.-THE executive order, in accord