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handle is hein.congrec/concraamm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 76TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DOCUMENT 3d Session No. 986 PROVIDING FOR THE. EXPEDITIOUS SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES WITH THE UNITED STATES MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RETURNING WITHOUT APPROVAL THE BILL (H. R. 6324) ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPEDITIOUS SETTLEMENT OF DIS- PUTES WITH THE UNITED STATES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES DECEMBER 18, 1940.-Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed To the House of Representatives: I herewith return, but without my approval, the bill (H. R. 6324) entitled An act to provide for the expeditious settlement of disputes with the United States and for other purposes. The objective ofothe bill is professedly the assurance of fairness in administrative proceedings. With that objective there will be uni- versal agreement. The promotion of expeditious, orderly., and sensible procedure in the conduct of public affairs is a purpose which commends itself not only to the Congress and the courts, but to the executive departments and administrative agencies themselves. Despite the tremendous growth in the business of administration in recent years, I have observed that there has been a substantial improvement in the standards of administrative action. That does not mean that further improvement is not needed. I am convinced, however, that in reality the effect of this bill would be to reverse and, to a large extent, cancel one of the most significant and useful trends of the twentieth century in legal administration. That movement has its origin in the recognition even by courts themselves that the conventional processes of the courts are not adapted to handling controversies in the mass. Court procedure is adapted to the intensive investigation of individual controversies. But it is impossible to subject the daily routine of fact finding in many of our agencies to court procedure. Litigation has become

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