The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-14
TEDDY QUITS / NEW SPELLING Will W<1draw His
 0rdsr. co <ERS WITH MR. LANDS Did Not Wish to Cause Promised
 Confusion. Agreed that if Congress Insisted on Old Method, He Would Yield to
 Their VIII In
 Matter.

Roosevelt will withdraw his simplihed spelling order to the Public Printer, and hereafter all documents of the executive departments will again be printed in the old-fashioned style.
 Representative LanuIs of the point committee on spelling. had confer ence today with the President when the President said that he did not wish to have spelling overshadow matters of great importance, and expressd will ingness to revoke his order for the new spelling in case the House of Repre- sentatives should go on record as op posed to the system Accordingly, late this afternoon Mir. Landis introduced the following resolution to the House:
 Resolved, That 1t Is the sense of the House of Representatives that hereaf- ter in presenting reports, documents or other publications authorized by law ordered by Congress or either branch thereof, emanating from the executive departments, their bureaus and branches. and independent officers of the Government, the printing office should observe and adhere to the stand ard orthography prescribed in gener- ally accepted dictionaries of the Eng fish language"
 The measure was passed without dissenting vote, although NIT. Gillette of Massachusetts, who made a fight for 
 Committee on Appropriations, and has been regarded as the champion of the Presidents attitude, explained that he did not wish to give the impression that he had changed his mind. Mr. Gil- Iete said he saw that the House was overwhelmingly against the innovation and consequently he bowed to it's will.
 Prfntim& Office Dilemma.
 The system of reform spelling was put into effect by the President during the recess of Congress, and all public documents supplied to the executive departments have been printed in the simplfied way.
 These documents have been pouring in ever since the opening day, much to the dissatisfaction of large majority of the members of the House. As a result. the Government printing ofiie was using two forms of spelling in public printing, the staid old method for Congress and the reform method In the executive documents.
 This caused a confusion and comment unfavorable to the reform, and finally was made an issue between the execu tive and legislative deparements. the judicial department having previously drowned upon the Presidents ordey. The Committee on Printing in it's fa- vorable report on the Landts resolution, stated tha tthe committee had been governed by he following considera- tions:
 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 tho forms of spelling in vogue at the time of their enactment. The various codi- ficattons of the statutes reflect the spelling in vogue at the time of the adoption of such qualifications.
 The last codiflcation adopted was in 1878. The subsequent statutes now number fourteen volumes covering a period of twenty eight years. Each volume reflects the spelling in vogue at the time of the enactment of the statutes embraced therein. A new codi- fication Is about to be presented |" Congress. Until Congress shall see f;t to order the printing of this proposed qualification of the statutes, embrace ing all the enactments of the law mak- ing power of the government now in force in some form of spelling other than that generally accepted by the people 1t would appear to be the part of wisdom for the government in all its branches, in the interest of sim pIiclty and economy, to adhere to a uniform system of spelling. and this system should be the one already most NNNNfNSNN the people.
 If Congress shall adhere to the form Of spelling already in vogue as applied to the statutes, 1t would ap- pear anomalous to employ some other form as applied to all of the prelim- mary stages of legislation, including the proceedings of, Congress up to the point where these proceedings are crystalized into law, and at this potrt order a change in the spelling of the perfected legislation to preserve har- mony in the ,orthography of the na- tional statutes.
 The executive order under which many public documents have already been printed. was issued on the 27th day of August, I906 and has now been in force for more than three months. It has been extensively exploited, and the public has ample opportunity to digest the arguments presented in it's favor.
 Public Against Innovation.
 Without taking issue as to the rela- tive merits of any form of spelling, it is evident that public sentiment as re- hected in the newspapers, magazines and other publications, has not been favorable to the proposed innovation embraced in the executive order of August 27.
 It is. therefore. a condition and not g theory with which Congress has to deal. It is not believed that the atti- tude of tho general public would be materially changed If the government in all it's branches was to adept the form of spelling prescribed in the ex- ecutive order, referred to. and only confusion and expense would result without any commensurate advantage. even if the new form of spelling were deemed preferable.
 Moreover, Congress has no assur- ance. even if 1t should leave present conditions undisturbed that the next succeeding administration would not revoke the present order Much of ;he matter embraced in the publications or the government is preserved in the form of stereotyped or electrotyped plates. representing enormous vlIues tO the government in the saving of labor and other expense All of these plates would be rendered useless 'u d moment by an order in a auccCedug aiminIs- tration. revOking the executive order of August 27 last.
 The sentiment in Congress is such that it must he taken without question that in the printing done fof Congress,