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Show with the provision objected to eliminated. elimi-nated. In his veto, President Wilson supported sup-ported Postmaster General Burleson, who has made a fight for abandoning the tube systems as obsolete and useless use-less because of the growth of the volume vol-ume of mail and the development of the automobile. Contracts for the operation of tubes in New York City, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis expire ex-pire Monday. POSTOFFICE BILL IS VETOED BY PRESIDENT Provision Also Opposed by Postmaster Burleson, But Insisted on by Congress. WASHINGTON, June 29. Further government use of pneumatic mail tube systems in six large cities was blocked today by a presidential veto of the post-office post-office appropriation bill with a provision provis-ion directing that the postoffice department depart-ment retain the tubes until next March pending an investigation- by the interstate inter-state commerce commission to determine the advisability of their purchase by the government. When an attempt to pass the bill over the veto failed in the house, both the house and senate repassed the measure |