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Show The Bank of Franco reported a trifling loss in gold and a largo gain In treasury treas-ury deposits. Bonds reflected the tone of tho stock market by their Irregularity. Total sales, par value. $1,870,000. P0UT.CS WILL MFECUIOCKS NEW YORK, Acg. IS. For the first time this woek today's stock market mar-ket evluced a reactionary tendency, with .1 generally lower level of prices. Nono of the declines was serious, nor was there any enforced liquidation, tut rather of realizing for profits with some attendant bear selling. The general belief Is that political events of the next few days are bound to leave their impression on the .securities .se-curities market. Wall street Is de-vot.ng de-vot.ng marked attention to tho conflict con-flict In the Republican party. The market opened with recessions of a point or more In many of the active Issues, and soon went lower on uu-founded uu-founded rumors dealing with tho alleged al-leged serious Illness of tho best known member of the Standard Oil party. Partial recovery was made from these setbacks, but tho list displayed more ox less hesitation lor the balance of the day and closed at or near the lowest low-est prices. Advlcos from middle banking bank-ing sources wero mostly that last month's liquidation had clarified tho fluauclal atmosphere iu that section Further light was thrown on the country's foreign trado situation by the publication of an official statement from Washington concerning imports and customs receipts for the first year under tho new tariff. It puts total imports im-ports for tho 12 inonth3 ending July 31 la.st at. $1,502,621,181, of which slightly loss than 60 per cent entered free of duty. Importations duriug tho year were larger than in any corresponding corre-sponding period In history, and tho volume of those entering rreo of duty the' largest ever known n any corro-Bponding corro-Bponding period. Custom receipth for tho year were. J327.S73.C72. a iorger total than in any other year except 1907, whou tho total waa about $3,000,000 larger. London was again a seller in this market, to the extent of 25.000 shares. Tho Bank of England increased Its j proportion of reserves to liabilities to I a point well above that of last week, and 1U toUU re-sorvo3 also wyro lurger. |