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Show TAFT VETOES SUNDAY CIVIL BILL One of Lsst Acts of Former President Was Disapproval of $119,000,000 Bill. Washington. Two of the sreat an-pual an-pual appropriation bills necessary to tbe maintenance of tbe federal government govern-ment failed of passage on March i, when tbe Slxty-econd congress wound i tip Its affairs. Senator Fail of New Mexico, holding hold-ing tbe floor through the closing hours of the Sfsslon, talked the Indian appropriation ap-propriation to death, with Its $12,000,-000 $12,000,-000 for the support of the Indian scrv-Ice, scrv-Ice, while President Taft wrote nil Telo on the $115,000,000 bill to take rare of tbe "sundry civil expens-s" ot the government Tbe bouso repassed the sundry civil bill over the veto, but when It reached tbe senate, Senator Polndexter ob jf-cted to any appropriation for the Washington police force unless an Investigation In-vestigation had been made of the riotous scenes attending the suffrage parade Monday, and the senate did not vote on tbe bill. Mr. Taft vetoed the sundry civil bill because of its provision exempting labor unions and farmers' organizations organiza-tions from prosocutlon under the antitrust anti-trust law. Most of tbe appropriations would take no effect until July 1, bow- ' ever, and tbe new congress can pre- j rare appropriation measures by then. I |