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HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
June 3, 1946
CONFIDENTIAL: To be held in STRICT CONFIDENCE and no portion,
synopsis or intimation to be given out or published until the
REALING of the President's Message has begun in the Senate.
Extreme care must therefore be exercised to avoid premature
publication.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE:
I return herewith, without my approval, S. 1604 entitled "An Act for
the Relief of Leo Stuhr."
This bill authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
to Leo Stuhr, of Grand Island, Nebraska, the sum of $149.57, in full satis-
faction of his claim against the United States for payment under the Com-
modity Credit Corporation's offer to make dairy production payments. Pay-
ments allegedly earned during the period from April 1, 1945 to and in-
cluding June 30, 1945 are involved. This bill directs the Secretary of the
Treasury to make the payment notwithstanding section 243.5 of the Commodity
Credit Corporation Offer to make Dairy Production Payments, which specif-
ically provides for a definite limitation of time in which claims for
such payment, and evidence in support of such claims, must be submitted.
Administrative regulations were in effect to provide for payment in
those meritorious cases where due to causes beyond the farmer's control,
the application for payment was not submitted within the prescribed time.
These regulations are most lenient. The producer in this case failed to
present any evidence tending to show that his failure to submit his appli-
cation for payment within prescribed time limits was caused by the result
of causes beyond his control.
The county AAA committee composed of his farmer neighbors has disap-
proved his claim and denied his appeal, after a review of all evidence
submitted.
The Congress has imposed limitations upon the amounts which the
Commodity Credit Corporation may expend on various subsidy programs.
If
the Corporation is to maintain effective controls over the total amount
of such expenditures, it is necessary that claims be filed promptly during
the operation of each program, in order that proper adjustments can be
made therein before the funds are exhausted. Should an exception be made
in this case, it would be mandatory that the terms of the offer be disre-
garded with respect to any and all producers who might at any date present
claims against the Government of the United States, thereby creating a po-
tential liability against the Treasury of millions of dollars.
I must emphasize my belief that the field of special legislation of
this nature must not be opened to relieve individual citizens from the
consequences of their failure, without cause, to file their claims within
the period necessarily fixed by administrative regulation.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 31, 1946