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Show Batch of Pension Bills. Washington, The houso on Friday ground out Its usual semi-monthly grUt of prlvnto pensions, passing in' 72 minutes 429 bills for tho benefit of veterans who nro barred tor ono reason rea-son or nnother rrom coming In under the general statute Soventy-flvo per cent of the beneficiaries nro either blind or bedridden. This ordur, with n number of minor bills and tho paBS-age paBS-age of two amendments to Phlllppluo turlff act of 1905, constituted th'j transactions of the dny, |