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Show SPELL THE OLD WAY Appropriations Committee of House Not in Line for Beform. WASHINGTON. Dec. 7, With an appropriation- of $33,000,000 and a pro-vison pro-vison barring "simplified spelling' in documents authorized by law or ordered by Congress, tho legislative executivo and judicial appropriation bill for 190S was reported to tho House today by the Appropriations committee, and was made a special order for Mondnv. The amount earned b the' bill is .f6S5,842 less than the estimates. The appropriation appropria-tion for the current fiscal yenr aggregated aggre-gated $30.16S,4S5. The entire number of salaries carried in tho bill is 14,727, or 202 less than included in the estimates therefor and 20 more than provided for the current' year. An increase from $1200 to $1400 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. Tho appropriation for miscellaneous expenses ex-penses for the Senate is cut from $100,-.000 $100,-.000 to $50,000. The salary of the secretary sec-retary to the. Speaker is increased from $3006 to $4000. |