Show TIMID TRADERS IN WALL STREET P rice Price Movement Uncertain and andS S Sluggish Yesterday t STEEL STOCKS DEPRESSED O SUiT SUP OVERHANGS THE MARKET S I New York Tork April volume or of In stocks dropped off oCt again to today today day and the price movement became beame yer very uncertain and sluggish These charactEr jades gained In torch force as the flame of the market got away from rom last nights level either above aboc or below until the movement came to a 1 standstill and then turned feebly Eeb In the other direction The action of the market thus plainly In indicated thE operation or of room traders or of a small class and of oC timid convictions The ne new direction direction tion to he taken b by the contest for Cor ron con control or of Northern Pacific is the subject most large largely discussed b by speculators and the opinion h Is luite universal that this overhanging Influence Is the cause of oC the stagnation In the market This feeling finds expression In Lon on as well as ashert here hert On the occasional upturns ot of the course of prices toda today however hOfer It was Quite that the Pacifies were Inclined to take the head of the move menta The report or of rain In the western portion Of th the winter wheat belt may have had some influence upon the group But these stocks yielded a again aln The rhe further In States Steel pre preferred preferred had nn an undoubted sympathetic of ef fed on th the whole market the more so as Its source and motive were not clearly clearl un understood Understood The market closed dull and weak talc Bonds Hond were dull and hea heavy Total sales par value alu U r S f coupon and the old declined I while thE Sa advanced 4 and the new Is 18 s 3 per tent Cent on call |