Show MARKING TIME IN WAll ViALL STREET Speculators Waiting for Shap Shaping Shaping ing of the Tariff Bill and Court Decisions PRICES AT LOWER LEVEL UT THE MOVEMENT IS SLIGHT IN EITHER DIRECTION Sew ew York March The stock market last week compo cd itself Into an attitude atti attitude tude of waiting upon the Ute more definite shaping of or future events and a was as distin chiefly by Ita IU unimpressionable character The testing operation of ot o the professional proCessional element made up near nearH nearly nearly ly H the whole of oC the dealings proved un una unavailing a availing ailing to uncover any contingent orders either In the way WA of liquidation or of co covering ering yering outstanding phort accounts Last Years Bluff On July 3 S last year before the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic convention tenet inet t in Denver Dener the de decreasing decreasing creasing Teasing dealings in stock ran down to a days 89 total of only on I shares dealt in at the tock stock exchange a record cord for dull dullness dullness ness not equalled in the annals annal of oC the stork stock exchange in modern modem Ulnae times tI Thurs Thursdays days das dealings last week barely barel turned tine tiia share figure thus recording a smaller days das business than for any day da since before the national The period of th the Inauguration of the new president having pasted without the hoped for revival In to Interest stock market In Interests interests apparently resigned themselves to await the definite shaping of oC the tariff revision f Islon now In progress at Washington The outcome of the th tariff revision seems ms mst t to j be unusually obscure and he check cht ek nun nn business activity is expected to be bei i correspondingly gr great at It Is la as an Influence on n gei ral trade activity that speculative sentiment is most concerned with the tariff tar iff ff Cf question The possible term of the un on has hali ae as much to do with the sup suppression suppression of speculative activity as have hate prospective Io changes of the duty on imports im imports ports Court Decisions Judicial decrees of or farre aching import an a f e to corporations were handed down during the week eek That to which greatest public Interest attached was the acquittal of r the Standard Oil company of Indiana i in i 1 i i the retrial of the case in which It was wal O on the first trial but the final disposition of oC the paw ease in favor faOr of oftie tie tiK corporation caused au ed scarcely S a ripple I on an the stock market Of or almost as much U was the injunction issued by the i States courts against t the Missouri law regulating freight and passenger rates of railroads The labor outlook Is kept in view dew by b bt bythe the fie t ruts in wages in various departments I Ir c t f r the steel trade trad and by b the conference between anthracite operators and miners I for a new agreement gree Jent to take the place of the one expiring on April 1 Tide of Immigration Jt It is considered a promising feature of oft t h IP a outlook that Immigration statistics f show a pronounced shift in the current again with Ith an increase in arrivals since the t ht first of the Jear ear of and a n de deas decrease crease croas as In departures of compared with ith last year ear when there was a home homeward ward wahl rush of ot foreigners The Inauguration of gold exports to onion was wholly ignored 1 as a stock I L lt t Influence In flew of oC the Ill of or funds in the noncy noney mar marKt Kt rt |