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Show PEARY RECEIVES RECOGNITION Is Made Rear Admiral and Put on Retired Re-tired List, With Pay From Date of Discovery of Pole. Washington. Tho plans of the friends of Captain Robert 10. Peary to hi cure congressional recognition of hl.-i polar achievements were successful success-ful on Friday, when the house by a Viito of l.Vl to 34 passed an amended senate bill according him honors, and the senate concurred in the house amendments and passed the bill. mm- urn1 ROBERT E. PEARY. which will Income a law an soon hs It Ih t-lKIH'tl. I'nuVr thin hill Peary will b placed "on the retired llxt of the corpn of civil engineers, with the rank of rear admiral, to date from April 6, , 19U!t, , with the hlghent retired pay of that grade under existing law." That In the date on which Peary , attained hia goal. |