The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-03-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The proceedings Of the English Amer
lean Joint Commission now In session.
. ere conducted secretly. a
A financial Journal says It 10 material
~ impossible for France IL pay an ide,n-
nifty OF 900, 0oo. 900 francs, or half that
aracus,t. .8.-Ft*s- *@'3 ...s- '.'
Mostly, once the rebc! guerrilla in the
Shenandoah valley, has applied for a
I: charter for National l,an:. ut Warren
ton, Virginia. -
>. The movement to secure the repeal o!
the income tax law has been virtually
.Atsndoned In Congress, being consider.
|: edhs peless al this session. ... 81
-; - s.rhe British members Of the joint High
/ Commission to settle the English Amer.
|. -icsial. controversies, have reached Wash
:.ilgton. The American members of the
= Commission are also there.
3 The Forty first Congress will expire
Friday, and the Forty second Congress
will assemble On the next day. The
members of the new Congress are al
ready arriving at Washington.
/ i; It Is now probable thas the joint High
/. Com mission for the settlement of the
question In controversy between the
Governments Of Great Britain and the
United States, will be seriously embar-
rassed at the very outset of the negotia
atoms, owing to a prcposterous claim
made by the Canadian Government for
heavy damages for the Fenian raids.
The United States Senate, Friday, af-
Ter 3 protracted session and exciting de.
bate. passed the House bill for the
enforcement of the Fifteenth Amend
,nent to the Constitution. 1t entitled
An act to amend the act approved May
!: 81, 1870, to enforce the right 81 citizens
OF the United States to vote in the sew.
eral States of the Union, and for other
purposes"
r. In the United States Senate, Monday,
the bill to amend the soldiers Bounty
law was passed. 1t provides that all
soldiers who were mustered into the ser
vice Of the United Safes for three years
between May 1 and July -, 1861, and
= who were i,onoraLly discharged before
serving two years by reason Of disability
contracted In the service, are Untitled t
receive Sioo bounty.
The steamboat bill which has passct
, both houses of Congress, and awaits
the Presidents signature, Is more careful
and stringent than aryoa, Of a simila
character heretofore enacted. In al.
4, ,ittiun to the Local Board Of Inspection
now appointed by law, there shall be I
Local Board appointed for the district.
of Puget Sound, Milwaukee, Albany
.. New York, Apalachicola, Evansville
Ind; Huron. Mich, and Marquette
the Present to appoint a Supevisin,
1ssf,Mpector General, Ivy and with the ad
|, vice and consent of the Senate.
!, The Joint High Commission will be
. gin Its labors this week. All the memb
ers on the part of Great Britain and al
!, kse American members, except ex Att'.
! General Hoar, are now in Washington
{ 1t seems that, under tho lcosc wording
I ofthe agreement, the Canadian claim
!, for damages caused by Fenian raids viii
j como before the Commission. Ear
Kimberiy's letter to the Governor Gen
efal of Canada, in which he urges tia
1.-The claims arising out Of the Fenian in
!. vasion will be presented to this Govern
8 mcnt for settlement at this time, ha
e caused quite a sensation in AdministrG
: ton quarters, and is the subject of com
j ment among members OF the Cabine
/, Secretary Fish takes different view o
' on the subject.