 However, Thiers and the National Assembly did not accept his proposals.The chief executive wanted to restore order and national authority in Paris as quickly as possible, and the cannons became a symbol of that authority.The Assembly also refused to prolong the moratorium on debt collections imposed during the war; and suspended two radical newspapers, "Le Cri du Peuple" of Jules Valles and "Le Mot d'Ordre" of Henri Rochefort, which further inflamed Parisian radical opinion.