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Description: 30 Years Nation Clerk Pulsifer Dies;
Capt. Peary Is Made A Rear Admiral
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
Page/Column: Page 1, Column 1; Page 2, Column 3
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30 Years Nation Clerk Pulsifer Dies
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By Associated Press
Washington, March 6 – Hillman Pulsifer, compiler of nay year ___ and indexer of senate documents and for many years clerk __ senate committee on naval affairs, died today. He came here with Senator Hale thirty years ago.
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CAPT. PEARY IS MADE A REAR ADMIRAL
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Special to The Daily Times
Washington, D. C., March 6 – The plans of the friends of Capt. Robert E. Peary to get congressional recognition of his polar achievements, progressed rapidly today when the house, by a vote of 154 to 34, passed an amended senate bill according him honors.
The original senate bill authorized the President to appoint Peary a rear admiral in the navy, to be carried as an additional number in grade and to place him upon the retire list at the highest pay in the grade.
The house amended this so as to authorize the President to place him on the retired list of the corps of civil engineers with the rank of rear admiral to date from April 6, 1909, and so as to tender the thanks of congress “for his arctic expeditions resulting in reaching the north pole.”