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Show AFTER MANY YEARS. House. Adopts Resolution to Cany out Authorization Made for Monu- mrat by Continental Congress. Washington, June 16 -The Hoiim to. day tran-oitcd tome ml-cellaneous buslncsa under mspennlon of the rules lt Included tho ndopllon of a lesolullon urproprlallng 126 000 for the prcpara-Hon prcpara-Hon of plans for a memorial In thla city lo Abraham Lincoln, 1100,000 toward tho erection of a monument to the prison ship marts rs who died off lirooklyn as u result of the cruelties to which they wero BUbJecled by the Ilrlllsh tlurlnt; the rciolutlonary wnr,.and I100W for ine erection of a monument nt rredei'-Ickabuig, rredei'-Ickabuig, Va , 10 the memnrj of Hen. Hugh .Mercer, who waa killed during the Lh".u,!u."",i w"r- '"" reaolutloa adopted today was to carry out nn nu-thorlzntlon nu-thorlzntlon made for 1 Ml 1 pu.pose In 177. by the Continental Corner' c Two blllji wero passed to unieid the gencial pension laws, one to preside for the reatoretlon to the pension rolls of the widows of soldieM who subse-quently subse-quently married and werj again wld. owed and one lo Increase th- tension of tho-e who base lost a limb or wuc totally tumbled svhlle In the military or nasal service. The latter bill also ciinled nn Important proslslon to Increase In-crease the pension of 11 soldier undo- the dependent att of lsoo from 113 to M per month when such n pensioner re. tiulies frequent or rerlodlcal attendance lhe lesolullon culling on the hcire-tary hcire-tary of War for his reasons for the dls. missal of Ileberca J, Tnjlor. a clerk in the War Deportment, wiib laid on the table 109 to Si Three Itepubllcans sot. ed on this question wlch tho Democrats Demo-crats A bill to authorise the Secretory of ssnr In his dls, retlon to fasor Amerl-cun-bullt Hlil) si tn th tiansportntlon of (los eminent supplies to the Philippines ssiia defeated 5lr I oopor Wls ) asked unanimous consent for the ropsldcratkn of a rem-liillon rem-liillon to moke the Philippine gosern-mint gosern-mint bill n special order fiom Jrnomh lo June 26th Inrluslse The resr'utlon proslles for the live daja' general debute de-bute beginning at 11 oilock mcli day nnd for night sessions fiom S to 10 10 p 111, for two daja' consideration unde-Ihe unde-Ihe ilse-mlnute rule nnd a final soto at 4 o'clock on Thuradnj, June 2lh Th' resolution was adopted without dlslslon |