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Show 'prominent croups in the financial world. .Much attention was given to the question of railroad earnings ns tuny would tie ntfVxtn.i by tin? poslpouc- nifnt of rate nnauproverl l' the eom-, eom-, mcrcc commission and tlio probable ! period of that postponement Rsll- rond earnings for March uro the !Mtc6t ( for which comprehensive returns have I been received by the commerce com-inlslon com-inlslon from OS per cent of the total mileage i.f the coimlrv. The May statistics of the copper producer association oferod little ground fnr encouragement, the ninntbs production having been the largest with the exception of October of Inst year for any month sluee the i association was formed, deliveries ( meantime havlns romnlnuhlc at j a be nt the level of the last three months with the result of another ad-I ad-I dltlon of $13,441,814 pounds to the surplus stocks of the inclnt. The J total KurphiM, which is thus brought up to 101. 42 973 pounds, nevertheless represents only alx-.ut six weeks consumptive con-sumptive requirements at the present rate of demand. Quotations for copper cop-per were lower both In lndon and New York An increase In pig Iron stosks in May In spite of curtailed production Induced a prediction by the Iron Ace that the blowing out of furnaces fur-naces has not pone far enough! . A favorable 1ew was taken of ihe government crop report. Money was easier, llotxls firm. Total sales $2,nci.non. United States regular advance,! 1-8 per cent on call. RAILROADS OH WALL STREEI NEW YORK. June S. There was boujc speculative hesitation reflected In the action ot today's stock market partly due to the rapjdlty or the advance ad-vance of the day before and partly to the eonfllei of opinion over the situ atlon created by the railroad rule net-llemeat. net-llemeat. The contrary views expressed by railroad executhes Iheruselves was re sponsible for the conlllet of opinion, especially the announcement that work callin; for $5,0n0,0oi) expenditure expendi-ture orders for freifiht ear whieh had been held up as a result of the rale Injunction would be resumed in contrast con-trast with the aserllon f President Ripley of thu Atchison. Toncka & Pntji Ke Kfatej that hln company Would not depart In any degree from th policy of retrenchment decided on after the action of . tho novernbent against the rate advances. London Joined in a substantial way in the early selling brought about by these conditions. The heavy Kelllnz nf St. Paul Dnd tho discouraged feeling expressed In a published Interview with a capitalist prpmlnent in that party were corroborative corrob-orative o fthe conviction that the difference dif-ference of opinion existed between |
