St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-18

Cordage common, ~; Tennessee Coal
and Iron preferred. AZ; Lead. 81; Lead
preferred, ~; Sugar, 8; Sugar pre-
ferred. az; Missouri Pacific, 234; To-
ledo, Ann Arbor, Baltimore & Ohio and
Chicago d Alton each %. and St.<Paul,
Nj. & NJ, Q. Very firm tone marked the
dealings in the bond market throughout
the day. The main changes are:
Advances - KeOkuk q Des Moines
firsts. 8: Kansas Pacific consols. 2;
Houston u Texas general tours. IL.
Decllpes.St. joe u Grand Island,
frsts, SIS; Ohio Southern general fOurs,
8. and st. Paul and Northern Pacific.
tirsts, l per cent. Union Pacific cOlIat-'
eral trust skies sold at 81. against rs OIL
Jan. "a. Omaha Il st. Louis firsts sold
at AZ, against AZ on Feb. z. Houston d.
Texas debenture skies sold at 90, against.
S8 on Feb. %. The leading changes in
the bond market for the week were:
Administration Pacific collateral
trust IS, 10; Illinois Steel Company de-
benture IS, l3; Omaha & st. Louis firsts4
; and Houston IL Texas debenture 6s,
each5 Utah Southern extended. To-.
ledo. Peoria IL Western firsts and Iron
Mountain IS. each 4; do Cairo, Arkansas
q Texas division nrsts. 81; st. Paul. G J
d Nj. firsts, SO: Erie seconds extended
Moines firSts, Northwest sinking fund
debenture 5s OF 1888, st. Paul gold Is
and do l. q Nj. flrStS, each 3 per cent.
Declines-Chesapeake d Ohio South
western seconds, II; Toledo, Ann Arbor
flrsts, 1512; st. Joe IL Grand Island
tirsts, 5, and Ohio Southern general a.,
per cent
The Evening Post says: There has
been much discussion during the last
few days. and there will doubtless be
more next week, as to the results on
business which might be anticipated
were the seigniOrage bill to become a
law. Rumor of such possibility has as
yet created little uneaSinesS, chiefly be-
cause Of confidence that the president
Will lnterpose his veto, but also, too, be-
cause OF very prevalent belief that the
DllfS signature will have no immediate
| disastrous influence. Were sudden and
very large Withdrawals of invested
foreign capital 10 come OH the
market now, with sterling rates at
the shipping point, it is quite conceiva-
bic that the treasury gold Withdrawals
would be resumed. Foreign invest.
ment In our securities. tmidly begun
this week, would almost surely cease.
and there would. therefore. be no check
to further rise in sterling. And, if
through combination of such causes.
heavy depletion of the governments
gold balance were eventually to follow.
how is the gold reserve to be restored?
The February loan was fioated for this
purpoSe, the banks did neither more nor
less than their bounden duty in sub
Scribing to it. But the question of duty,
after the government had publicly
broken faith on the coinage of the
selgnlorage, might be very greatly al
tered.
The Total Sales OF stocks
today were 95 800 shares. including:
Atchison, $500; American Cotton Oil,
LOO; American Sugar. 20.100; Burning
ton. 1,4U0; Chicago Gas, 6,20J: DisullerS
and Cattle Feed, 9.400; General Electric,
| 1.2O0; Louisville & Nashville. 2,70O;
National Lead, 2,7o0; National Cor
| daye, $500: North American, 400:
Reading, $500; Rock Island, 1900;
st. Paul, 1880.
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