Show LOKIG TOWARDS RRENCY C RE ORMi i President Cleveland Believes I Vigorous Means Must I Be Taken i WILL GIVE IDEAS IN I HIS NEXT MESSAGE I CHICAGO WHEAT MAKES A RE I 1 1H BLB JOII Figures Prom Urndstroct Sltovriiis the World Supply the Cnnsc Several Important Losses on the Day Causes n SemiGloom on Wall htrcct borne Alliances in the Dond Market Xotcd Western live I StocU Quotations Lead Still Icing Innillulnteel I New York Nov 14It is reported here that the presJdcn is considering the idea of submitting to the country 3 plan for currency reform He believes that the currency rystem is inherently vicious and that it is responsible for financial ills which must recur so long as it is maintained main-tained Satisfied with the diagnosis hem he-m undoubtedly prescribe a remedy calculated cal-culated to give the finance permanent health believing possibly that this can be done only bv supplmitms the presents present-s > stem The subject will be the dominant domi-nant feature of his message to Congress in December I is said he will lavar rianv of the suggestions made by the Bankers Xational convention at Baltimore Balti-more 1 September What is known as the Baltimore plan Jopted Jit ItffiIn io appealed to the picsident as having features of undoubted un-doubted merit He obtained a copy of the plan and since that fine he has seen studying and working on the subject Briefly stated the Baltimore plan pro Ydcs for ii guarantee fund obtained by levying 3 small tax on all of the banks This lund is to be used to pay the notes of banks which become insolvent Since i became whispered among financiers finan-ciers that the president was preparing to nddress Congress upon the currency system C sys-tem so many suggestions have reached him that he thought it well to gather some expert opinion among bankers whom lie could not personal consult The present visit of William E Curtis to this city is understood to be for the purpose of sounding public opinion here upon the pencral subject While Mr Curtis is in New York Assistant Secretary Treasurer Conrad N Jordan is in Washington He is urging upon the president to recommend recom-mend to Congress the appointment of a currency commission nonpartisan in character and composed of representative men < of all sections which shall consider 1n al sectons the currency question in its various bearings Congress bear-ings and report a system of reform to WALL STREET New York Nov 14With the exception excep-tion of slight rallies between 1 and 12 oclock and about 2 oclock the stock market was a declining one The effect ef-fect of the proposed government loan hail been discounted during the past two days and when the official announcement an-nouncement of the issue came this morning those who had bought stocks yesterday and the day before were ready to dispose of them to take the iprofit Burlington was sold heavily on Boston orders on rumors that the dividend divi-dend nhich is expected to be declared next week will be scaled down At the aower figures there was some covering of short contracts which caused a brief rally but renewed selling of Sugar sent prices down again A small recovery took place shortly before noon but speculation quickly relapsed into depression and there was a steady depreciation in value until about 2 olock when the pressure to sell having hav-ing been removed a gain ranging up to 1 per cent was made but during the last half hour of business an active selling movement was in progress which established a lower range of jjrioej the market closing weak and in a great majority of instances at or near the lowest point of the day The bulk of the transations were in Sugar which broke Si and closed within 1 lA of the lowest figures touched The preferred pre-ferred shares also declined 11f The other more important losses on the day are Northwest Missouri Pacific 1 Burlington 1 St Paul Ts Rock Island 1 The only shares which made more than a fractional gain was Oregon Navigation which on a purchase pur-chase of 100 shares advanced 1 i A generally heavy tone characterized the dealings in the bond market for the greater part of the day Near the close however a ibetter tone prevailed and some smart advances were noted Government bonds easier for 5s firm for 4 a State bonds quiet Railroad bonds firmer Petroleum steady Pennsylvania Pennsylvania oil sales none December options sales none closed 82 bid Lima oil sale none Money on call easy at 1 per cent last loan 1 closed 1 per cent Prime mercantile paper 21feCVS Sterling exchange fairly firm with actual business in bankers bills at S74S7i4 for demand and 4SG4SG1i br sixtydays Posted rates 4S74S7 and 4SS 488A Commercial bills 4S5 Silver certificates 63i bid Total sales of stocks today were 336 828 shares including American Sugar 1 7200 Bay State Gas 2800 Burling ton 23900 Chicago Gas 13700 Louisville Louis-ville Nashville 2700 Manhattan Ianhatan Consolidated 12200 New Jersy Central Cen-tral 4000 Northwest 5900 Rock Is land 7600 St Paul 150 UnitPd tatcs Cordage 2600 Western Union 309NEW NEW YORK GENERAL MARKET Sev York Xw H HOPSSteady WOOL Dull PIG IRON Dull Scotch 1900 2000 American 1000fil300 190 TIXEas straits 1447147i4 plates ci 11 Spelter dull domestic 33iiI35 1 Speler dul domctic 3t t3 Saes on change 2 tons Febr tin 14oO LEAD Firm brokers price 300 LEADJirm cx lange price 312 30 SILVER OPPERSteady J brokers price 050 cs nunre ta 950 f rrst COFFEE call bid Options fallowing opened 15 points irregular advance with on i pot and others 5 lower to 5 points higher ruled active and strong closed actlc anl cosed barely steady 6510 points net advance Sales I O bag incudinJ November SaleS I 100 110 December I3255a1320 January 12i5 4 J2W March 10 April 11SOlLS5 tay UOflW I Spot Coffee Rio firm No 7 15 nild steady Cordova 16tl9 T RioFirm No 7 31 O exchince I 1 ll16d receipts GOOO bags cleared for 1 the United States 2000 bags cleared for 1 Eurone 2000 bags fctock 238000 bags I bagsWarehouse cleared from Rio November 10 22000 arehouse deliveries from New York f yesterday 5250 bags New York stock to day 171344 bags United States stock 238t50 bags afloat for the United States SttOOO bags total visible for the United States 4iS730 bags against 482127 bags Jast year SUGAR Raw quiet refined steady CHICAGO GENERAL MARKET Chicago Nov HThe wheat market responded with alacrity at the opening to the strength of the Liverpool cablegrams cable-grams France and Berlin sent higher quotations and the home markets of the northwest wen surprisingly strong New 1 York sent large buying orders also 1 May which closed yesterday at f9 found hosts of buyers at the opening at rum GliG thus recovering In one jump all the ground i lost yesterday After playing for a short time between the quotations named there came addi t tional buying support with a sprinkling I or fOelg buying orders and this increased In-creased the previous strong tone in the price berore 11 oclock reaching G0 forMa for-Ma G7 The market held fair in expectation of < G getting further support from the worlds supply figures expected from Bradstreets At 1 oclock the statement was received and it did not disappoint the bulls As soon as it was published there was a rush among the local scalpers for wheat and they pulled and tassel about making ing excited dives in dozens for every lot offered and bid up the price until within ten minutes from the receipt of Brad I streets statement the worlds visible supply decreased 472000 bushels last week and that caused the quick advance referred refer-red to I was said in dispatches from Liverpool that Argentine crop prospects were suffering from excessively wet weather being given for the principal reason for strength in foreign markets The market wound up strong and closed at 61c for May CORXSti leaned upon the Delgh rIng r-ing wheat market for support May under a liberal demand from that class of buyers advanced to 50i and closed at 50 s 50OATS OATS The aggregate sales hardly amounted to an average good days business busi-ness but a strong market was apparent and at intervals considerable activity was noticeable The principal governing power lay in wheat and corn May started at 32I32 i sold up to 32 down to 321l2 and closed at 32 The receipts of hogs here and elsewhere else-where in the west amounted to an enormous aggregate compared with recent re-cent numbers January pork and lard are without change and ribs 2sC higher The leading futures ranged a follows WHEAT NO 2 1 Open 1 HighiLow I Closing I Nov 51 55 ioPi 5 Dec wV 5Gfe looVt 1G16n May IGOViSBO 16H I60VJ 61I6U CORN NO 2 I Open I High I Low I Closing Nov 51i8 151j 51 51 3 Dec SOU 151 5 11 May J50ii 5 L50 t10 15o OATS NO 2 10 f I Open 1bgTLow 1 I Closing Nov 28 2SS 2Sfc 28 Dec I 29 29U 284ff29 2H4 N ay W32i32 = 321132 MESS PORK PER BBL j Open j High I Low i Closing Jan 1210 1122214 11210 11222 May I 11243 502 1257 ½ = LARD PER 100 LBS 1 OpeTTixgh I I Low I Closing Jan 1 70 I 712 f 1705 I 171 I lay 722 72V L I 721 I 72714 SHORT RIBS PER 100 LBS 10 j I Open I High I Low I Closing Jan J G10 i i 6174 I 610 617 May 1 627l 2 I 6374 I G27 6m Cash quotations were as follows FLOUR Unchanged I AVHEAT No 2 spring 53 > M160 < No3 spring nominal No 2 red 555G CORN No 2 5H OATS No 2 29 No 2 white 3 No 3 white 32JT34 RYE No 2 47 ½ BARLEY No 2 5536 No 3 53 55 f No 4 52f53 FLAX SEED No 1 143 TIMOTHY SEEDPrime 555 MESS PORKPer bbL 12351250 LARDPer 100 It 715 SHORT RIBSSides loose G25ftS50 SHOULDERS Dry salted Cooxea 5 ½ 5SHORT SHORT CLEAR Sides boxed 6 ½ 51Ri WHISKY Distillers finished goods per gallon 123 SUGAR Unchanged Article I Rtt Ship Flour barrels I 40000 8000 Wheat bushels GlOOO 8000 Corn bushels1750030 OSOOO Oats bushels H91000 55000 Rye bushels 1191015500 Barley bushels127000 r j 95000 On the produce exchange today the butter but-ter market was firm creamery 1423 dairy 1221 eggs firm 215122 BOSTON QUOTATIONS Boston Nov 14 Atchison 5s Bell Telephone 196Vi C B Q 74 > A Mexican Central and San Diego blank II I I NEW YORK MINING STOCKS New York Nov 13 Cholar Plymoutb 20 CroiaPoInt 58 Sierra Nevada Si O C C Va 4 10 I Standard u 1 30 Deadwood 00 Union Con 50 G C M Yellowjacket 55 H N 1 OllronSilrer 1 I Homestniteuu16 0 Qulcltslver 1 IJ Mexican 1 10 Preferred 15 10 Ontario uu 6 5 Buher OJ I Ophir 3 1 GOVERNMENT AND OTHER BONDS New York Nov 13 U S SsrcR H7 IID R G 4s 83 U S ls coup 117s Erie Seconds bUS 75 b-US Isreg 1H GH SA8s ftj US4scoup ll4hC1l SAle 99 U S isres uu 90 HT Cent 55105U Paciflc630f9o 101 H tT Cent Os t9 Ala class A n If34 MK T First 4s iSM Ala olass lLH iS-M K T Second 4s Jfili Ala class C 92L Mutual Union 6s ICS Ala Currency 9n N J Cent Genl5s 115 La New Cons 4s 93 Nor Paclsts 11515 MissourI6sh100 For Pac 2ds u S9 i Carolina 6s121 N W Consols IftU N Carolina 4 lODi NW S F deb 5sI09 S C NonFund nm G W lets 70 Tenn Now Sst 6s SO St P Consols 7s 130U Tenn New Set5slU2 Do C P W Ssll s Tenn OidCs W l IStLI MgonSs iOs VaCenturies JiStIAS F gends 88 Preferred u SUTex Pac Ists jb9i Atchison 4s fPU Tex Pac nds 232 Ditto Second A 20J U P Istsof 9G1CGIA Canada So nds15 VestShore4gl6 8 C Puolstsof 9510 i Southern K R ts SS D R G 7s b13 I SAN FRANC1SI0MINIXG San Francisco Nov 13he omcial closing quotations for minIng stocks today were as folows Alta 20Justtce 21 I Alpha Con 05 Kcntuck Con tO Andesn 6 Mexican 120 Belcher 89 Mono 13 Belle Isle 115 Mount Dblo 1 B B 1 05 Occidental Con I6 Bodle Con o 8 Ophir u u 330 Bullion 32 Overman 13 BuHon Bulwer Con Potosi GG Caledonia 10 Savage f Challenge COD 3g SIerra Nevada 5 ChoIaru 71 Silver BBL U Confdence 1 10 Union Con 6r CCVa 43SUtah 8 Con Imperial 01 Yellow Jacket Con New York Crown Point 02 Silver bars 68535 Exchequer Mexican dol52 53 Gould Curry C 1 DraHs II htun 05 HN l2ODrafts tclegraph OJ RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS Nol York Nov 13 Atchison iU P D G 44 Adams Epress112 Northwcstern102 Alton T 3 3 Proterredm 145 Preferred 193 2 Y Central 9 Am ExpreJsm12 N Y t X H 3 B IO 16 Canada Pac 62 Ore Imp 13 Canada Son 1 O cNnvh 21 Central Pac 18J4 Ore S L U N 8 I Cues 0 uP 19 IpaC110 Mal t Chicago Alon 12 p D E 3 C B IO Q 7415 Pittsburg Chicago Gas 764 Pullman Pulace 158 Con Gas l lIHenlnghu 1 C C C St Lu 39 RIchmond Terl7 Cob CI un OS Preferred I Cotton on Cert 28 R G W 16 j Del Hudsonl26t Preferred 4 D L W 1151 Rock Islandu 64 D 11 G pref Wl St PauL 6 D C1 COn 9 Preterred104 East lcnn un 10 St P 0 uu 3 S Erie 1 6 PreCerrcdl0 Plcorred 2S Southern Pac HI Fort Wayne 15S Sugar Refinery Ste GroatNor prerulO TC 1 lt C EI prot N cxasPac 10 HockingYal f1 104 1 O Cen Pret 75 Illinois Central Vl4 1 Union Pac 13 St P D 2i I U S Express Ja l St T prefu 2315 W 5 L P 6i L E w n t75 Preterrd liSs Preferred 727k Wells Faro Exl05 Lake Shore137 Western Union 80 Lend rust 4lZ5 W L E 1 L N nu 5511 Preferred 40h M N A 7 M 5 L 20 Man Con1051 DcflQ 12 M C 10 Gen Elec 30 Mich Cenn 99 Natl Linseed 202 Missouri Pac Un 285 Col Fuel J 24s Mobile Ohio H Preferred 70 Nashville Chatt 60 H 8 T Cent 2li U S Cordage 11M I A A N 4H Preferredn 18J T SLt K C 1 I N Central W Preferred 6 R TC pre 22 So railroad I2fi North Am Co H Preferred 33 A Northern Pac 4 Am Tob look Preferred 18 Preferred lOSJi t1R1IGN FINANCES New York Nov 14The Evening Posts London cablegram says Todays markets were good Consols were at the highest point touched The gold mentioned men-tioned in yesterdays cable dispatch was received today and more is coming South Americans Were strong with a further substantial decline in the Argentine Argen-tine gold premium Americans were tat the issue of treasury bonds being fully discounted here Shares are not strongly held hence the relapse However the best houses here attach great importance to the telegram in the r Times announcing that President Cleveland Cleve-land is about to introduce a scheme for the improvement of the currency Details De-tails are awaited with great interest At chlsons were especially flat on fears of a pected heavier assessment than has been ex SAN BERNARDINO BANK San Bernardino Cal Nov 11The depositors de-positors of the First National bank which closed Thursday last are making arrangements arrange-ments to rehabilitate the bank themselves At a meeting a committee of six was appointed ap-pointed to confer with Bank Examiner Wightman as to the plans for reorganis lug WHEAT OF THE WORLD New York Nov 14 Special cable and telegraphic advices to Bradstreefs covering cov-ering principal points of accumulation in the United States Canada and Europe indicate the following changes in stocks of grain last Saturday compared with the preceding Saturday Available supplies east of the Rocky mountains Wheat increase 1138000 corn increase 22000 oats decrease 611 000 United States west of the Rocky mountains Wheat increase 590000 afloat for and in Europe wheat decrease de-crease 220S000 Larger increases of domestic wheat stocks east of the Rocky mountains not reported by the grain exchanges include 150000 bushels in northwest interior elevators ele-vators 109000 bushels in Chicago private elevators 880 bushels at Rochester and 30000 bushels at Oavlonchiirrr Corresponding decreases include 396000 bushels at Fort William 88000 bushels at Newport News 39000 bushe in Minneapolis Min-neapolis private elevators and 8000 bushels bush-els in Milwaukee private elevators CHICAGO LIVE STOCK Chicago Nov 14 HOGS Receipts 75000 official yesterday yester-day 36821 shipments SG53 quality quite hood a great proportion of heavy lots Market active but weak pigs a10c lower sales ranged at 413475 for light 420 7440 for rough packing 4254SO for mixed 4453190 for heavy packing and shipping lots and 200W435 for pigs CATTLE Receipts 21000 ales of native na-tive steers were largely at SoOftoOO and 3W1500 from lTofrSSQ bought most of the cows There were about 2500 westerns and 2030 Texans SHEEPReceipts 21000 todays quotations quota-tions were IOOWSIO for poor to choice sheep The bulk of sales were 200275 lambs 175390 KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK Kansas City Nov 14 CATTLE Receipts 10000 shipments 2900 market SglCc lower Texas steers 2255330 beef steers 230n 50 native cows 150S323 stockers and feeders 240 51350 SHEEPReceipts 4000 shipments 1100 stronger and higher natives 2751j > 330 westerns 250iJ325 stockers and feeders 2002GO lambs 300425 OMAHA LIVE STOCK Omaha Nov 1 CATTLE Receipts 5000 prices ruled steady to 510c lower than yesterday and trade was dull and low In the stocker and feeder trade there was little lit-tle change Cows 200S300 feeders 300 fJu50 westerns 275 i309 SHEEPReceipts 1000 the demand for killers was very good and the market I mar-ket active and firm native mixed 2S5 GOLD AT BUENOS AYRES London Nov HGold is quoted at Buenos Ayres at 246 SAN FRANCISCO WHEAT I San Francisco Nov 14 10 WHEAT Strong December 97i May I 103 LIVERPOOL MARKETS Liverpool Nov 14 WHEAT Firm holders offer sparingly sparing-ly No 2 red winter 4s 9J No2 spring 5s CORK Dull holders offer moderately spot 4s HMd futures tim holders offer of-fer sparingly November 4s 10d December De-cember 4s Id January 4s 6d FLOlR Firm holders offer moder teSt ly te-St Louis fancy winter 3s 9d LARD Steady holders offer sparingly spot 38s PORKFirm holders offer sparingly prime mess western 63s 3d prime mess medium 54s 3d HOPSAt London Pacific coast firm holders offer sparingly new crop 2 15s 5113 |