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Show iitOCfil! 1 HE OF THANKS TO CAPT. PEARY WASHINGTON. .Ian. 12. Captain Rupert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, today to-day was formally approve! by a subcommittee sub-committee of the house committee on naval affairs. The sub-commlltcc, at an executive n cctlng from which two of the principal prin-cipal opponents of Captain Peary-Messrs. Peary-Messrs. Roberts and Macon, were absent, ab-sent, adopte'd a favorable report to the full committee on the Bates bill, which extends the thanks of congress to Peary and 'retires him with the rank of rear-admiral in the engineer corps of the navy. ' Captain Peary is now 53 years of nge, and the action, if approved by the full committee and agreed to by the senate, will place him immediately immediate-ly on the retired list with abbui the same pay $0,000 as he is receiving as a captain on tho nctive list. The report probably will arouse a lively discussion in the house. |