Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-09
F;-- sIS Taaeliigencer 5ef Ehs S7tA inst. THE NEW SURPLUS, SSc.

-Sf IIouae hin. the Senate bill, whlch Dy th!S Unesns became law, now known Oy tne u- tIo of the Compromise Act, mas Deeh Wucn M celebrated, and not more than the cleVe5neSs S,s ofthe achievement deserVeo. put we ,aUt uOaO S',hetber if eoualled in deXterity movement of inc member from Tennessee, (Mr. BelD whose familiarity with Congrcssional tacucs enabled him, on Saturday last, having tle majority on his side, Gas the event proveoJ 10 incornorate in the bill making the annual appropriations for fortifcdtionS, provision, for distributing the surplus rerenue when slall he in inc Treasury on the 1st of January ls3s. on the same principles as by the act ol last session the surplus in the treasury on the lst of last January was directed 10 oe us
 tributed tor deposited) with the several States'
 To understand the importance oI tGas CA GA perimental knowledge of the rules witon In- ba ables member to get such ProPoslIIon l: oe- before the House at this period ot the session. it should he noted that, had he moved II as an ;ndenendent amendment, the preU1o~s queS,a0" ,o;nbt have heen called upon him, which, be- ;ng arraed to. would have precluded his or ary ofher amendment. He took advantage, therefore. of depending amendment to move his proposition as an amendment 70 'he nuendanent, which contained within itself ma nv important provisions for particular objects ofappropriation, Not, t,technlcaliy,to ,tothe Dlli.) The ETEUIOuS &ZUESLtOG WOuAA ANNS NOt OAA IAA0 depending amendment (moved to be amend ed,) and other depending amendments, in which some members of the House felt "deep interest. The consequence of this was, that. when the Previous Question was ultl- matelv called it was not sustained by ma- iority. The House was therefore brought to a direct vote on MT. Bells proposition, and 1t was carried. It became part of the bin, and is a part, and very material part of the Forti- fcation bill, as it has passed the House of Representatives,and is now before the Senate. Correspondence of the N. Y. Daily Express
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1887.
 T'he Bottle upon the Distribution cf the Sur plus Reuenue.-The House of Representa- lives for the two days past has been rich in scenes. The whigs have got possession of the Hall of Representatives and are carrying all before them. Vanderpoel has threatened. Cambreleng has begged and prayed; Gillet has beseeched and bullied. Abijah Mann has looked all ways Lee and McKeon have not stood aloof. All New York has been in n terrible commotion. The Regency Legion has been beaten and scattered-the White House is in wild roar, and if Van Buren was in bad box" year ago, he IS tumb- led into @ worse one now neck and heels.- The history of this battle, with all the skir- mlS0ln2 upOu lts H yOu WHA 6AVO hAS AOOAA9 \ will record. The Fertilization Bill being up for discussion in the House, and there being no prospect of carrying any separate bill for the distribution of the Surplus Revenue, Mr. Bell of Tennessee, by one of those judicious moves which experienced Legislators know we'll how to make, tackled to the bill as an amendment, proposition to divide the Sur plus Revenue, just as it was divided last year. This fell upon the camp of the Regency as if bomb had tumbled in explosion from the dome of the capitol! MT. Gillet of New York said, this it would be awful to do. It was out-of- place, Anti-Republican, Federal, and so on. MT. Bell thought it was quite Re- publican to take the money of the People out of the Pet Banks where it was often used for us,lrious purposes, and to put it in the pockets of the People where it belonged. MT. Mann, of New York, mourned sadly over the cor ruption it would inflict upon the States, and told us it was horrid thing to tax the Peo- pie to corrupt themselves Think of this from MT. Mann! But Mir. Thompson of s. c. was sinner enough to laugh at the idea of State, by giving it what was its own. All this was but the skirmish in the Committee of the White House on Friday night: and in this skirmish the Regency Troops, by a sudden rally and without the yeas and nays, beat the Whigs by a majority of four, there being for the amendment 71-and against it 75.
 The Wings, however, not at all discomfit- ted by such little defeat as this, rallied strong on Saturday, when the Fertilization Bill was brought into the House, where the Wings could have the benefit of the yeas and nays. Long and vigorous was the contest, for it lasted almost the whole of Saturday, and did not end till after 10 o'clock on Saturday night. MT. Bell renewed his amendment in the House. Connecticut got an amendment for large sum of money for 0 fortifcation engrafted on the bill, and so did Maine for the Penobscot River-and this prevented a sudden spring of the Previous Question, to cut off all amendment, as it was feared. MT. Graves of Ky. led on the charge upon the Regency Troops, and he dashed upon the New York Government Banks pell-mell.- MT. Gideon Lee rushed to the rescue, and be- ing man of Wall street education, he found a hole in the Kentuckian's armor, here and there, into which he thrust spear. The mo- ble Kentuckian never heard of "cornering,' ,'' and killing, and lodging, and all that. But Whig after Whig dashed upon the whole Re. gency clan. Kentucky horsemen, and Car. olina infantry banded together, and deter mined New York should not have all the spells. The brave General Reynolds, witl his raw recruits from Illinois, just mustered into service, and not in Regency tactics wei raised such yell as startled all the Regency in their den. II don't understand this," said this rough old veteran of the West. '"Here are the Generals and Lieutenants of our par. ty all running of, and refusing measure they gave the Western States last year, by exclamation, as it were. The rank and file is at war. We were for distribution then we are for distribution noc. Why is N. York in such storm? New York must not be gree Av Mauy Vorl cannot have all &ha snolo