Show Crooked Commission Houses Chicago SBoard of trade circles here are laboring under a moderate stafi > of excitement growing out of the publication publi-cation of certain circulars alleged to have been sent out by a few prominent commission com-mission houses in this city and New York to country customers outlining movements move-ments by which they can speculate on change on a smale scale Papers here publish the name of certain firms who are supposed to have sent out those circulars and arc Ea ere in their denunciation denunci-ation of the supposed scheme declaring that the methods are only a shade different ferent from those observed by the firm of Fleming and Merriam the setive members mem-bers of which firm were compelled to leave the city and counlrv owing to the tnportunings of those who had been induced i duced to invest their money in the firms cheme It is rumored the board of directors rectors of the board of trade has taken official cognizance of the action of these firms with a view to discipline I |