Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-08
BAR FOR new SPELLING
Appropriation Bill Reported with Clause
Prohibiting it in Legal Documents.
CONVICT LABOR Bill IS PASSED
House Amends Interstate Commerce
Bill to Allow States to Prohibit
Shipment of Convict
- Made Goods. - Z, 20

| WASHINGTON, Dec. AT o'cloc kto-
day the house adjourned until Monday
having during the legislative session passed
several bills and received from the commit
! tee on appropriations the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriations bill. That
bill was made a special order for Monday,
no day having been fixed for the vote on It..
During the three hours the house was in
session 1t passed a bill which has the en-
thuslastic endorsement Of labor as well as
manufacturers generally, repeating that
portion of the Wilson interstate commerce
bill relating to convict made goods and per-
hitting the several states to legislate for
themselves as to their competition with
free labor made goods A bill also was
passed creating a game preserve in the
| olympic mountains. in Washington.
bar for SimpIihed Spelling.
with an appropriation Of over SS1, 900, 900
! and a provision barring "simplified SPELL
| ing" in documents authorized by law or
ordered by congress, the legislative, ex-
| ecutive and judicial appropriation bill for
1907 was reported to the house by the APP
| preparations committee and was made a
| special order for Monday. The amount
carried by the bill is $6S5,S42 less than the
estimates. The appropriation for the cur
| rent fiscal year aggregated SS016S, ass. The
entire number of salaries carried in the
bill is 14.727, or 2O2 less than Included in
the estimates therefor and twenty
more than provided for the current year
An Increase, from S1.1OO to 81, 400 is made
in the allowance TO members OF the house
for clerk hire and the requirement that
| members certify they have spent this
amount is omitted. The appropriation for
miscellaneous expenses for the senate is
cut from 10000 to $4,000. The salary Of
the secretary to the speaker is increased
| from 5000 to $4,000.
Convict Labor Bill Passed.
| BY a practically unanimous vote. the
house today passed the bill limiting the
regulation OF interstate commerce between
the several states In articles manufactured
by convict labor or in any prison or re-
formatory. The bill was introduced by
| Mr.. Hunt eAIo.), a practical stone mason
! Under the Wilson bill. which became a Law
| in 1890, convict labor-made goods may entel
into active competition with the goods
manufactured by free" labor, and under
this federal lava state could not pass q
law that would prevent the shipping into
the state Of prison-made goods Of other
states. The law which was passed today
aOrogates interstate commerce law as al
present applied 10 convict-made goods
thereby affording to the different states and
territories the right to inhibit the shlppinl
in OF convict-made goods without the con
fines Of any state or territory.
Mr.. Hunt asked for its passage, not only
in the interest OF free labor, but IN th'
interest Of the manufacturers He said 4
was an attempt 30 curb the criminal com
petitioner the penitentiary with the fret
labor OF the country.
1T is cruel" he said, ito ask the FREE
labor OF this country to maintain its citizen
ship, its dignity and its self-respect, II I
has TO walt until the product OF the stat
prison is sold before the employer car
get reasonable price for his honestl!
manufactured product"
Game Reserve in Washington.
The sovereignty Of the state was the sub
jeet Of earnest debate In the house today
growing out Of the consideration OF a bill
20 establish q game preserve in the olympi
forest reserve In the state Of Washington
The bill passed without division
Mr.. AOnden (WyoJ insisted that the su
preme court had ruled that a state u SOW
eFeiEn over its birds. game and fishes an
that 70 create such a game preserve an
lplacs It under national supervision va