The Springfield herald., 1906-12-21
SPELLING ORDER
WILL BE WITHDRAWN BY PREsl.
DENT ROOSEVELT.
NOT FAVORED BY CONGRESS
House Resolves to Adhere to Old
style Of speIiins.-changs Would
Make No End Of Cost and Trouble.

Washington. = President Roosevelt
will withdraw his simpliaed spelling
order to the public printer and here
after all documents from the Exccu-
tive Departments will again be printed
in the old-fashioned style.
Representative Lands of the joint
committee on spelling had q confer
ence Thursday with the President.
when the President said that he did
not wish to have spelling ovcrshadow
matters of great importance, and ex-
pressed willingness to revoke his
order for the new spelling In case
the House should so OH record as op-
posed to the system.
Mr.. Lands introduced the following
resolution in the House:
Resolved. That 1t is the sense Of
the House OF Representatives that
hereafter that in presenting reports,
documents or other publications au.
.horized by laws. ordered by Congress
or either branch thereof, or emanat-
ing from the Executive Departments.
their bureaus or branches. and inde-
pendent officers of the government.
he government printing ONCE should
observe anu adhere to the standard
of photography prescribed In generally
accepted dictionaries OF the English
language"
The measure was passed without a
dissenting voice, although Mr.. Gillett
OF Massachusetts,, who made q fight
for simplified spelling before the
House committee on appropriations
and has been regarded as the cham
Dion of the Presidents attitude. ex'
planned that he did not wish to give
the impression that he had changed
his mind.
Reformed spelling was put into cf
feet by the President during the re-
cess of Congress and all public doc.
uments supplied to the Executive De
partments have been printed In the
s:mplified way. These documents
have been pouring in on Congress
ever since. and the report on the Ian
, dis proposition stated that the com
mittee had been governed by the fol
lowing considerations:
"The executive order, under which
many public documents have already
| feen printed, has been in force more
than three months. Without taking is
sue as to the relative merits OF any
form of spelling it is evident that the
| public sentiment has not been favor
able to the innovation.
1T is not believed that the atti
iuue VI lne SeHeEdl puDiiC Woau III
materially changed if the government
| in all its branches were to adopt the
| spelling prescribed in the exccutiv.
| order referred to, and only confusion
| and expense would result. without any
commensurate advantage even II tht
new form of spelling were deemed
preferable. Moreover, Congress has nc
assurance that the next administration
| would not revoke the present order
much of the matter embraced il
| the publications of the government il
| preserved in electrotyped plates repre-
sentlng large values to the govern
ment In the saving of labor and Other
expenses. All of these plates woult
| be rendered worthless in momentb
an order IN succeeding administra
tion revolving the Executive order O.
| August 27th last.
In the opinion OF the COMMITTEES
any departure from the recognized
standards of orthography cannot witt
safety, satisfaction or economy be
taken, until Congress and the execu
tive shall agree upon the adoption o.
photographic methods