Show UNCERTAIN TONE Of THE MARKET Prices Slow to Move in Either Direction With General Downward Tendency WEATHER EYE ON POLITICS BROKERS WATCHING SARATOGA AND BUFFALO BUFFAL New York Sept 26 Price movements movement 1 were divided by considerable intervals of I time to i 1 the days stock market and for forthe forthe forthe the most of the day the current was sluggish and listless with wih a disposition to cling about last nights level When there was any show of or mobility movements were exceedingly vacillating and uncertain uncertain tain thin the level of prices showing the same tendency to return to last nights level level At one time during the day there was a fair average of gains scattered through the thc list but from that level prices plunged to a general generl decline It I was wa difficult to trace the thc factors in all al these move movements movements ments meats A general air all of doubt and of waiting for enlightenment was perceptible ble in the neighborhood of the stock ex ox exchange x change A large amount of ot attention was given o 0 the political party conventions at Buffalo and Saratoga and traders in stocks were likely to be influenced in their operations by their interpretation of events as making for f r or against the growth of socialistic tendencies towards capital capital There was some further special pressure against the Now New York public utilities on a supposition that the welfare of these thee corporations is especially con concerned COI corned in il the future as It is being shaped by the political campaign An early call cl money rate rte of 6 per ler cent also proved a discouragement to specula speculative speculative tive sentiment as it i was supposed that it marked the beginning of the pinch of the preparations for the October settle settlements settlements ments This fear was disproved by bv the later hater developments the coal loan rate falling back before the active money lend lending lendiS lending ing iS of the tho day was concluded Not ot only was the call cal money market undisturbed but an appreciably easier tone prevailed for time loans and additional supplies s were offered In that market There has been some money withheld from the call caB market waiting for a rise in the rate to toa toa a 3 designated figure It I is believed that the failure of call can loan rates rat s to advance has prompted placing some money thus held in the tile time loan market Yesterday was the he lat last day for payment of tons to half hal the te contemplated issue of St Paul stock calling for about 1200 and the completion of arrangements for forthe forthe forthe the payment may have realized some money An announcement of or an additional en engagement engagement engagement of gold for import also helped the money market as it was feared that the dwindling proportions of the th movement lately had reached the vanish vanishing vanishing ing big point The foreign exchange market easel cased off to some extent today and dis discount discount discount count rates were lower in the open mar market market market ket in London This leaves the thc open mar market market market ket rate ratu above the official rate of the tile bank but there is less expectation that the bank will wi advance Its It official rate tomorrow Money lone continues to move moe from New York to the Interior especially by the indirect method of payment of reve rove revenue revenue nue dues at Interior points by drafts drafs on New York This helps to account for the th large arbe gains gins by b the from the tho local banks which amount to since the last bank statement Included d dIn in this is upward of in return of government deposits against gold engaged d for import for which the banks bank engg are re reimbursed reImbursed by receipt of or the foreign gold The course of events In Cuba had a ashare ashare ashare share in the unsettlement of the market from time to time The markets un an uncertain certain certin fluctuations continued up to the thelast thelast he last prices pries rising r ing to the best bet of the day da In the final hour and then running off again with an easy cas closing Bonds were irregular Total sales sale par value call United 1 States State bonds were unchanged on |