Mr. CONNESS. The Senfrom Ohio objects to this section and wishes it reconsid: ered, wishes that it shall not remain as part of the bill: he comments upon it, points out what may be its dangerous tendencies, but he prooses no o to it. He says that the atter provision of the section, providing that such settlements shall not extend to any case where there existed official delinquency, is loose and vague, but the Senator does not bring his ability to bear in making it more precise than it is now. If the Senator had held the office of deputy postmaster in one of our towns many years since and had for his compensation the% age then allowed by law, where not only the% age but the whole receipts amounted to comparatively little, and yet in many in stances had to provide a house, a fire proof building, in which to receive the mails of the U.S. that passed through that office, for his handling of which and his care of which he received not a cent or fraction of compensation; if he had had to sit up the live long night as the mails came in to attend to them either by himself or through a deputy, and the law allowed him no compensation whatever either for furnishing the building to transact this business in or for the attention required to be given, he would think it was a pretty hard case when the U.S. district at torney was authorized to bring suit against him in the premises on the instruction of the Auditor of the postoffice Dept. But it has not fallen to the lot of the honorable senator to be exposed thus and asked to defend himself against a suit in the U.S. courts for a trifling sum of money, but which defense is necessary to be made, and where ruin in reality is to follow, I hope the Senator will be a little, more liberal in regard to this matter, and if he desires to provide against the settlement of any southern postmaster's accounts where he reserved moneys belonging to the Government, let him offer a proviso to that effect and let it be adopted. The PostMGenl understands very well the cases to which this would apply, and he is in favor of such a provision, not I undertake to say because it, gives him patron age, not because it authorizes him to settle these accounts, but because his attention is taken up in a great degree, and that of the officers of the Dept under him, by a host of claim agents who are constantly engaged in Pressing him for a settlement of their accounts. A large share of the time of the officers of the Dept is constantly engaged in reference to accounts ante dating the law fixing salaries, which is precise in its character, and which accounts ought to be adjusted and settled. f There are suits now to the extent of 100s brought against men, involving their certain ruin; and yet the PostMGenl has not the authority to order their withdrawal. certainly, if we cannot intrust the head of a dept of this Government, an officer who is the adviser of the POTUS in the adjustment of these old accounts of the character I speak of the country has come to a pretty hard pass indeed. It is well known that I am not on the very best of terms, either politically or otherwise, with the honorable gentleman who Presides at the head of this Dept, but I am perfectly willing to intrust him with the settlement of these cases. I am exceedingly anxious that our citizens shall be relieved from being constantly harrassed by the agents of the law sent out upon a change in the Auditor's dept of the postoffice. We have an Auditor to: day who understands a case; perhaps he has given an order to suspend a suit, but he cannot order its discharge. hen a new officer comes in, upon rePresentation made to him he gives an order to reinstitute the suit and to Press it to its conclusion. these cases are very hard; they exist all over the country; and it is a duty of the Government at once to ascertain a basis of exact justice upon which the settlement can be made. If the Senfrom Ohio sees fit to offer any provision which shall guard it with more care I have no objection.