Show swindlers lers of the government adding to its sum SPEECH OF MR it causes a llie republicans public ans mr carlisles leaving the elousy involves changes from our regular correspondent slay 16 the conscience lund of the treasury department goes on acir bv year the hundreds and thousands who have contributed to it many individuals divi duals who knowing themselves to have come into wrongful wrong tul of moneys belonging to the government through their own act or somebody alses error fiod no peace of mind until they have made full restitution the government itsek holtner ia seldom it ever pt ricken with similar spasms of conscience it bufes to the people here and there all oer aliu country sums vastly larger than individual debtors have into the treasury during the ilas century vitally larger it 13 reasonable to believe than diio asre gathof all such indebtedness edless confessed or et how afteu dres the take ahe trouble to inform a lung waiting creditor that there is u balanco due him on the books of the treasury subject to his order how often in a word dierf the government with its ednd accumulation unsought feel the silent reproach sufficiently to liquidate its 0 n ing indebtedness to the private citizens who eliav grown gray and decrepit in bet ging a settlement there is something bom ething radically brouk in A bysted that per mita such things to be it ia not the fault of any particular party or any par nicular administration AS a ruie me clerical work of the government is correctly done but it cannot be successfully questioned that a habit which has grown into an apparently fixed policy nearly all the departments of keeping the claimant out of his dues as long as possible of handicapping him in of justice or concealing ce aling if not actually suppressing the truth especially in regard to that class of creditors which represents the floating deb t of the government outside of the bondholder it is almost as much aa a garfs reputation is worth to press a private claim before the departments of R flint of new lorac a member of the pan american congress waa in the city last week for the purpose of preparing the reports of the pan american congress for presentation to the united states congress there was he baid nothing of general interest to be given to the public at the present tima mr flint who although largely interested in the rubber business never stretches the facts si isbit 3 looked for much good to result icum lue international congress the sessions being secret the press had not given the whole action to the public and the subject he thought was not well understood by those who criticism criticise critic ise the conference while he was far from in dorsing the mckinley bill lie saw no hostility between that measure aud the reciprocity recommendations of the conference which are satisfactory alike to projectionists protectionists and free traders the latter seeing in them an approach toward the practice of free trade principles while the former noted a practical extension of the home market the conference was provided for by a demo cabatic president and congress mid was carried out by a republican executive ani BO he said there could be no politics in it and it should not be upon in a reports of the conference woula mr flint said be presented to contress Cons ress within three or four weeks and then the world could better judge of its borks the butterworth speech the other day has caused a sensation and many republicans have not the same regard for the independent ohioan they have had heretofore nobody questions the honesty of the the power of it ia what has made many angry out it is not expected to have any effect upon the fate of the mck auley bill the thine the are troubled about is the use that yiu be made of the speech by the democrats in the next camo aien this or that feature of the bill may not be approved of by independent kepueli cans and if all the republicans who have something in the bill to complain of would combine there would be no istance of passage 01 ol the bill but they are not lombind Tom bind and is regarded ascertain that the bill will pass th eHouse practically asit stands There of his colleagues collea eues in the house who agree with all mr butterworth has said but they do not seem disposed to come forward as he a done and declare themselves the speech has been a source of much satisfaction to the democrats i if mr carlisle leaves the house will involve some important committee changes sir Breckinrid of kentucky would probably succeed him on rules and remain on the appropriations committee of which he is now a member either wilson of west virginia or bynum of indiana would probably take mr carlisles place on the ways and means committee mr wilson would probably be the speakers choice but be is now on the judiciary ludi ciary and three smaller committees including manu fractures fac tures while bygum is on manufacturers only |