Taft Veto Crushes Woman.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 17, 1912:
Mrs. McDonald of Montana Fears Action Will Kill Sick Husband.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— Mrs. H. B. McDonald of Butte, Mon., fainted in the gallery of the House to-day when that body sustained President Taft's veto of the bill for the relief of persons who supplied labor and material for the construction of the Corbett tunnel of the Shoshone irrigation project in Wyoming.
    Mrs. McDonald has been in Washington for weeks fighting for this legislation because her husband, now ill in Montana, held $11,000 worth of pay checks of the workmen on the tunnel.
    She saw the bill pass both houses and then killed by the President's veto. Then she saw the Senate override the veto and went to the House gallery to await the verdict of that body on the veto. The McDonalds' property is mortgaged, and the bank holding the mortgage has been withholding foreclosure pending the passage of the Corbett Tunnel Relief bill. When Mrs. McDonald fainted at the announcement of the vote, Representative Mondell of Wyoming rushed into the gallery. She collapsed while being led out on his arm, and was hysterically crying that the failure of the House to override the veto meant that the bank would foreclose, and she feared her husband, whose heart is weak, would be killed by the blow.