The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-04-20


In the Supreme Court concerning the
constitutionality Of the Legal Tender
act.
The United States Senate OH Friday
passed the House Ku Klux suppression
bill, with some amendments. 1t now
goss to the House for concurrence In
the amendments.
The United States Senate refuses to
concur with the House in its amend.
ments to the Ku.Klux suppression bill,
- passed on Saturday, aud confer.
'ence committee of the two houses has
been ordered. The Senate also, Mon
day, laid on the table. until tho next
session, the House bill for q general
amnesty.
> After all storms, comes tranquility.
Senator Sumner made good Simon.
pure Republican speech against the
Southern Ku.Klux and their Northern
Democratic sympathisers, and both he
and Senator Carl Schurx in the
Senate, emphaticaiIy declared THEREON.
tinued sympathy with and adherence
10 the good old Republican party.
A special to the New York Tribune
from Paris, Sunday, say': "Firing has
been incessant during the past forty
eight hours. The Government at
Versailles says Paris 10 completely in
vested, and that summons to suren-
der In twenty. four hours will DO sent.
There Is great excitement In the city,
and the Commune suddenly allows free
circulation In the streets and to the
railway stations, with out passes. Most
Of the city gates have been opened.
The Versailles troops made desper-
ate attacks upon tue insurgent positions
near Paris. on Saturday, and the firing
continued all day Saturday and Sunday.
The Parisians claim to have repulsed
their assailants, but this lacks confirm
alton. While the caunons were boom
ing and the shells striking in the
streets of the city, the inhabitants of
the crazy French capital OIL Sunday
crowded the usual resorts OF gayety and
pleasure, enjoying themselves the same
~ II nothing Of unusual gravity or
danger was happening around them.
In the House Of Representatives vt
Washington on Saturday, the Senate
amendments to the House Ku Kiux
Till were taken from the Speakers table
aud the three most important among
were rejected. The amendment ex-
tending the right Of the President to
suspend the writ Of habeas corpus ill
the eud Of the next regular session Of
Congress. instead Of till June l, 1872,
was rejected BY % yeas to 90 nays. The
amendment IN relation to the oath OF
Jurors, and the amendment known as
TIM Sherman amendment, assessing
the damages on localities, were also
rejected. A Committee Of Conference
was then appointed on the disagreeiug
vote of the two houses.
A Washington dispatch says the
general impressions at the Capital
among those likely to be as we'll In
formed as any, is that the labors OF
&uS JVlut AAIA" NOuIAlS0l"b AnSC PlO
gressed almost to conclusion, and that
the preliminary draft for basis OF
settlement for the most important qucs
tons Of difference between the two
Countries has already been forwarded
to England. Little credence is given
to the various versions If the terms and
conditions Of settlement which are in
circulation. as the members Of the com
mission are extremely careful to avoid
all illusions to their labor, even to their
officials, whom 1t might be presumed
had the right to be advised thereof
/ is the opinion Of quite number OF
leading Senators that All extra session
of the Senate will lie called about the
middle OF May, to act upon such prop
csitiens rs may be submitted"