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Show ACTIVE SPASil IN STOCKJURKET SEW YORK, April 11. There was a Midden spaMti of actlrlty In the Htork marlcet today on the announce-niept announce-niept of a re assignment for argument before the supreme court of the American Am-erican Tobacco and SUndard Oil cae. The buying of stocke was hurried hur-ried and urgent and at rapidly advancing ad-vancing Quotation?. That It came larpely from uncovered Rborta was obvious, the professional bears having hav-ing sold stocks In the early dealings on a rumor that a declxlon adverse to the American Tobacco company would bo handed down today. This mood of the peculation had been aggravated by the speech of the attorney general gen-eral In Chlcatro Saturday night and by th Intention there announced to eitend the scope of government prosecutions pros-ecutions erf corporations to the bituminous bitu-minous coal combination, and, Inferential!)', Infer-ential!)', to others. There waa the additional consideration consider-ation that the re-openlng of the two leading anti-trust ea.'cg Implied a balance bal-ance of opinion In the court Itself that left the members unsatisfied to promulgate pro-mulgate a decision In casea of such wide scope nnd Importance. The delay de-lay which must now occur In reaching reach-ing a final decision In the cases was accepted fts a measure of relief from the condition of suspense, which the weekly expectation of a possible decision de-cision has held over the stock market. mar-ket. For those who have held that the Immediate siispenxe of thla question ques-tion has been a repressive Influence In enterprise, tho changed condition wnj regarded hopefully. Ridding for fctneks to test the market revealed a small flowing supply offering. Interest Inter-est rates for time loans were advanced ad-vanced again nnd call loans started the week at 3 V4 per renl. The tone of the bond market continued con-tinued Irregular, but there was aome Improvement at some points. Total Eales, par value. J2.275.O00; United States bonds unchanged on call. |