Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-12-19
TO spell rs Before
Congress Ferces Presis:efs to
Revoke Spelling Order

Revoke Spelling Oroer
HOUSE HOLDS TO OLD SYSTEM
VIII Withdraw Order to Public Print
,er and Documents Hereafter VIII
be Printed in ol6-F Fashioned Style
Resolution Adopted by The House
Passed Without a Dissenting Vote
Considerations Governing Action
of Committee.
Washington, speciaIls simplifed
spelling received a final quietus in
the House. The subject has been
under more orstessG continuous discus
sion in the House and in committee
ever since the convening of the pres
ent session of Congress, but it was
brought to sudden termination by
the adoption of resolution favoring
the return to the old standard Of or
biography, just before the House ad-
iourned. It was understood that this
action had been taken as the result
of an interview with the President,
in which he had said that if the
House should go on record as against
the new system he would abandon his
effort in that direction. The House
was prompt in meeting this condition
and the resolution WAS adopted by a
unanimous vote.
The Resolution Adopted.
Representative Lands, of the joint
committee on spelling, had confer
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 the
new spelling in case the House OF
Representatives should go on record
as, opposed to the system. According
ly late in the afternoon Mr.. Lands
introduced the following resolution In
the House:
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
the House Of Representatives that
hereafter in printing reports, docu-
ments, or other publications author
lied by law, or by Congress or either
branch thereof, or emanating from
the executive departments, their bu,
reau or branches, and independent
Offices of the government, the Govern
ment Printing Office should observe
and adhere to the standard of orthog-
raphy prescribed in generally accept
ed dictionaries Of the English Ian
guage. y
The measure was passed without a
dissenting vote, although MIR. Gillett,
of Massachusetts,, who made fight
for simplifed spelling before the
House committee on appropriations
and has been regarded as the cham.
pion of the Presidents attitude, eX--
planned that he did not wish to give
the impression nat he had changed
his mind. MI. Gillett said that he
saw the House was overwhelmingly
against the innovation and conse-
quently he bowed to its will.
The system Of reform spelling was
put into effect by the President dur
ing the recess of Congress and all
public documents supplied to the ex-
ecutive departments have been printed
in the simpliAed way. The COMMITTEES
on printing in its favorable report on
the Lands resolution stated that the
committee had been governed by the
following considerations:
"In the various reprints of the con-
stitution of the United States adher.
ence to the original spelling is found
in the majority Of cases. The spell
ing in the original statutes reflects
the forms Of spelling in vogue at the
time of their enactment. The various
Qualifications of the statutes reflect the
spelling in vogue at the time OF the
adoption of such a condition. The
last codifcation adopted was in 1878.
The subsequent statutes now numbes
ii volumes, covering a period of 2s
years. Each volume reflects the spell
ing in vogue at the time of the enact
ment of the statutes embraced there
in.
ga new codifcation is about to be
presented to Congress. Until Congress
shall see fit to order the printing OF
this proposed codifcation of the sta.
utes, embracing all the enactments oi
the. law-making power of the gov
ernment now in force, in some form
of spelling other than that general.
accepted by the people, it would ap-
pear to be,the part Of wisdom for the
government in all its branches, in the
interest of simplicity and economy
t, adhere to uniform system Of
spelling, and this system should be
the one already most generally recog.
nized and accepted by the people.
eff Congress shall adhere to tn;
form of spelling already in vogue a'
applied to the statutes, it would ap
pear anomalous to employ some othel
form as applied to all of the prelimin
ary stages of legislation, including
the proceedings of Congress, up II
the point where these proceedings All
crystalized into law, and at this Spoln
order a change lin the orthoggaphy
of the original statutes.
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