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Show TRANSPORTATION ISSUESf EEL EAILURE Of CONGRESS TO ACT Widespread Interest Is Also Taken in Speech of President Wilson on Eve of Departure for Paris. NEW TORE, March 4. The session on the stoclc exchange toduy was Influenced to an extraordinary extent by the progreas of. events nt Washington and widespread interest in the address which President Wilson is to deliver here tonight. Passing of the Sixty-fifth congress without action on financial legislation of paramount fiuiportance, including the railroad revolving fund, unsettled transportation during the, intermediate in-termediate period, that group reacted 1 to almost al-most 4 points. For a time the reaction comprehended the general list. Including steels and equipments, but much of the reversal was recovered later. foremost In the latter class was Kelly-Springfield Kelly-Springfield Tire, which resin tered the new maximum, of IliO after a temporary setback of 5 points, and American Woolen, which rose 1 , i 8 points, half of its gain being made prior I to the announcement of the 10 per cent- "ex- ' trn" dividend. 1 Oils and" motors rebounded vigorously, the former deriving substantial support from the ' more liberal attitude of the Mexican authori- i tips, nnd leathers contributed largely to the ! yeneral improvement at the end, but shippings ! and nietals logged, bales amounted to 835,000 1 Bhares". j N umorous railroad BtatementB of earnings 1 were issued by the interstate commefte com- 1 mission, these for the moat jjart showing sub- siantial net returns. ! Foreign bonds were firm, but domestic Is- 1 sues, including the Liberty division, yielded fractionally to a point. Total sales (par value) 1 aggregated $19,129,000. 1 Old L'nited States bonds were unchanged on 1 call. j |