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Show VETO MEANS RUIN TO MERCHANTS OF BUTTE. Washington. Aug. 16 A woman's sobs sent a thrill of pity through the house todaj Just after Speaker Clark had announced that the veto by President Presi-dent Taft of the bill -permitting payment pay-ment by the government for work on Corbett tunnel of the Shoshone irrl-i irrl-i gatlon project in Idaho had not been overridden. Mrs. H C McDonald, wife of a merchant in Bute. Mont., has worked here for months to secure this legislation. legis-lation. Her husband holds $11,000 of the pay checks for work on the Corbett tunnel, received In payment of supplies scuceured by the laborers. labor-ers. She fought trie hill through the house and senate. When President Taft vetoed it she had thr senate override ov-erride the veto She sat today in the gallery during the debate on the vpto and through the rollcall of the motion to override. When the speaker announced the failure of the necessary two-thirds vote to carry the bill over the veto, she broke down and her distressing sobE aroused the sympath, of all Representative Mondell of Wyoming who had fought her flpht, hurried to nor assistance and led her to the corridor cor-ridor She told him her husband had staked everything on the paseage of the legislation. Their business tnd home must go unless they can collect on the $1 1,000 pay checks. A bank in Butte will foreclose on a $5,000 mortgage. The husband is in poor health "This blow will kill him," sobbed Mrs. McDonald. "Two years ago our little Dorothy was ill and I prayed that If Rhe could be spared to us, everything else we had might go. She Is alive and I suppose I should not grieve over this, but It will be so hard on my husband." The contractor on the Corbett tunnel tun-nel failed and the government took over the work. SuHh are pending against the contractor's bond The bill was to permit the creditors to intervene in the suits and so recover on the bills and unpaid checks through the government, Republican Leader Mann made a strong plea for the paBsago of the bill over the veto. |