Show Silver and Lead Lead has declined 10 cents in the market during the week It opened OH Monday at 365 on Tuesday f3SO was tho figure it then fell to 375 at which figure it closed last evening Tho action of Secretory Secre-tory Windom has been severely criticised by the prominent Republicans in this city one of whom yesterday remarked to the writer that it was evident to him the Republican Re-publican leaders were anxious to dig their own gi ares Tho single act of Secretary Window of a week ago he said cannot fail to drive an army of mining voters into the Democratic ranks Had such action boon taken by a Democrat I should not have cared even though it had injured our interests equally as much It is the break ing of the promises of tho party The decision de-cision is an outrage and is a violation of tho clear purpose of the tariff act Another An-other Interested party said It is generally gener-ally acknowledged that the president is responsible for having upset the decision arrived at in August by the subordinate officers to whom it had been referred At all ovants the die is cast and the secretary secre-tary after calling for a hearing and stirring stir-ring up matters in general plays a somewhat some-what ridiculous part by announcing that it is not within his power and province to make any ohango in the ruling In New York there has not been any move of importance in Chicago tho market was easy although al-though tim effect of Windoms action was slightly felt In St Louis the market was very dull I and it is reported that thero is but little I prospect of anv improvement Silver 94 |