Show r I FIGURES WERE MANIPULATED MAN How Superior Board of Trade Improved on Minneapolis Price of Wheat Minneapolis April 6 A W Harris for former mer tel telegraph operator at the board of trade today testified in the fed federal oral eral Inquiry now on here that grain quo quotations QUotations quotations were ere there manipulated and then telegraphed to St S1 Paul Paui Cincinnati Kan Ian Kansas Kansas sas City and Omaha This evidence was brought out today toda In Inthe Inthe Inthe the taking of testimony in the suit of the Minneapolis of commerce against the Superior board of trade to restrain it from using the chambers market quota quotations quotations If the Minneapolis market was 76 the operator receiving the quotation would so 50 indicate to the brokers in the pit by bya b ba a system of finger signals They would immediately Imm run the price up to 76 and then back baek to 76 That Is the way they were posted on the board said Mr Harris Mr Ir Harris stated that he telegraphed all these board prices to the cities named How many brokers were in the pit asked Attorney II H V Y Mercer for the chamber At first there would be five fhe or six And what did they do when the op operator operator operator They would offer to buy bu or sell bushels of wheat and then laugh I Iere Were ere there ever more than five fhe Cr r six J brokers there at once No o and unusually these would all leave but two soon lon after the market opened And at times for or a few minutes they the would all leave the floor Mr Ir Harris further stated that he re received received received Instructions to keep his mouth shut hut at anything he saw or heard heardA A rigid failed to shake his testimony |