Dec. 2. Congressman Wiley of Alabama introduced the following bill in the National House of Representatives today. It was referred to the committee on the library and ordered to be printed: A Bill for the erection of a monument to Jeremiah O’Brien: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the erection in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a monument to the memory of Jeremiah O’Brien, upon which shall be inscribed the words: Erected to the memory of The heroic Irish-American, JEREMIAH O’BRIEN, Who captured In the first sea fight of The Revolutionary War The British schooner Margaretta. Said sum shall be expended under the direction of the secretary of navy, or such officer as he may designate, and in such sums as the work may require from time to time. Dec. 30. A meeting of the executive council of the Society was held this evening at the Narragansett Hotel, Providence, R. I. [Illustration: MR. WILLIAM F. CLARE, New York City. ] [Illustration: NATHANIEL DOYLE, New York City. ] [Illustration: HON. D. J. McGILLICUDDY, Lewiston, Me. ] [Illustration: M. B. SULLIVAN. M. D., Dover, N. H. ] FOUR MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. NECROLOGY. The following members of the Society died during the year 1907, much and deservedly regretted: Rt. Rev. WILLIAM STANG. D.D.