Show RENDER CAESARS THINGS TO CESAR CAESAR not a little sarcasm to is indulged in at the expense of the nimble fingered neatly pompa doured immaculately clothed bask bank teller whose vocation implies a scornful disdain of the glut of gold and greenbacks green backs in which he revels yet whose occasional festiveness as indicated in the tour to canada comes in for its full share of pharisaical taunt and oracular briticism cism A good word now and then in him hid behalf to is received therefore with considerable relish and a recent plea for him put fortu in connection with that mysterious account known as the fund all is given publicity with pleasure the conscience fund as most readers are aware consists of contributions received at the treasury department from parties usually anonymous who are moved to remit amounts which at some previous time they had unjustly received or had bad withhold withheld from the national strongbox the length of time which they permit themselves to enjoy the ill gotten means varies pro pre according to the moral activity ol of the conscience involved it if to la ue needless edless to pay fay that some of the great eat frauds are not even tardily rectified in this manner while on the other hand there are doubtless many baft where no fraud whatever has bas been committed or profited by and aad yet a reimbursement for an i i wrong to is upon how rauch lew jess this fund is than it ought to bet be and how bow much of it ought in justice to be returned to the contributors cannot for obvious reasons be determined it is enough for all ordinary win to know that it has assumed vast pro portions portio nag and is being steadily aa na dented anted all t the is time tim the plea pies for the bank teller after this much of introduction may now be presented it is a theory adva advanced by an officer ot ol the cash room of the united states treasury and is referred to by the american banker in a late isto issue he says he has no doubt that a large portion of the money return returned eil JQ the treasury on the ground that it wa w not rightly the property of theae the ud is in due to overpayments over payments by tel tellers leriL H he thinks it right that the public gener gene iii ally should be informed that all oak takes made by govern me t and bank tellers in the way ot of overpay mental result in a corresponding loss in their 1 compensation aria and in nowise affects id resources of their employers he gives many instances where govera ment tellers bad inadvertently paid oat oaf i more than was called for ind and had been compelled to rectify the mistake out of their own pockets and he mentions all this solely in the Inte interest reft of the tellers iu in the hope that it win will be remembered by all persons who conscience troubles them concerning money received in this way gayso so that it may be returned to the officer who he has been compelled to pay for his own owa carelessness rather than to the go government veril or bank which has been already reimbursed for the error |