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HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR
June 21, 1950
GONFIDENTIAL: To be held in STRICT CONFIDENCE and no portion,
synopsis or intimation to be given out or published until the
READING 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
I return herewith, without my approval, the enrolled bill
(s. 765) "To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear,
determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Algoma Lumber
Company and its successors in interest, George R. Birkelund and
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Charles E. Siddall, of Chicago, Illinois, and Kenyon T. Fay, of
Los Angeles, California, trustees of the Algoma Lumber Liquidation
Trust"
The provisions of this enrolled bill are the same, except
with respect to the identity of the claimant, as those of S. 764,
a measure which I am also returning without my approval. The cir-
cumstances upon which the claim is predicated are also the same, in
all essential particulars, as those presented in connection with
S. 764, althouph there is some variation, of course, in the amounts
and other details of the transactions involved.
The instant bill, like S. 764, is subject to two basic
objections: it would require the Klamath Tribe of Indians to make
full reimbursement of any judgment awarded by the Court of Claims,
despite the fact that only a portion of the money the claimant is
seeking to recover was deposited to the credit of the Tribe; and
it fails to provide adequately for consideration by the Court of
Claims of equities in favor of the United States or the Klamath
Tribe which might estop the claimant from contesting the validity
of actions taken in reliance on its own course of conduct, or
which might give rise to counter claims on the part of the United
States or the Tribe that could be set off against the amount of the
claim. Both of these objections, together with the pertinent facts,
are explained fully in my message with respect to S. 764.
For these reasons, I am constrained to withhold approval
from S. 765. However, as I stated with respect to S. 754, I would
approve a bill which removed these objections.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 21, 1950.