New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-25

69a.: Southern Railway first IS, tx to ssh; Den
yer and Rio Grande As, | to 81; Chesapeake ana
Ohio AIS. to 40; Fort Worth and Denver City
first receipts to 30: st. Louis and Iron Noun
tain rs, to ~ Atchson adjustment As. a to 30;
Hooking Valley rs. III to 81; Kansas ano Texas
first Is. y TO SOl2: Ontario and Western refund-
ing As. u to 50: Texas and Pacific first 5s, to
SOk; Cincinnati Dayton and 1ronton iirst os.
y to 1851; Oregon Short Line Gs receipts. "a to
1911. and Union Pacific. Denver and Gulf hrsts,
II to 81. The Reading issues were fractionaHy
below yesterdays closing.
Money call 4G5 per cent. Time money
was per cent for all periods. Commercial pa
per Il2MSl. and . per cent. the f1rst rates
for choice paper only. In time money the per
cent rate held for all periods, with the greater
part of the business being done In short period
loans In expectation OF easier rates later on in
the fall.
The foreign exchange market was stronger;
sterling and francs ruling 1-32 to JIG higher
than Yesterday. There was falling off in com
mercial offerings Posted rates Of the principal
drawers OF foreign exchange were 81 oIi2dS4 *
and 81 81 for long and short sterling respective
ly. Rates for actual business closed as follows:
Sterling .... Cable. s..4 .sr,.d Eng. Short. Is.
s:isS: 50
Domestic exchange was as follows at the
places named: New-Orleans. commercial. 81 -
discount; bank. PAL. San Francisco. sight o;
telegraph Zoe. Charleston. buying. Is discount:
selling. par. Savannah. buying. Jig per cent
Off; selling, par Boston, DC. TO 15c. discount.
Chicago. 10c. discount.
Bank clearings in this city We're: Exchanges.
SS2S1J,6lI: balances. S3.2JI ,422. Philadelphia
Exchanges 81 9l2 fJ2: balances, 81 ,0S1 1J1. Bal
timore-EXfhanges. 81 1863 O63: balances $751;
li2 Bost6n-Exchanges s12.325,75s; balances.
S1,3s2,O4l. Chicago-Exchanges 1,4j7 800;
balances. 81 0S7157
The price of commercial bar silver In this mar
ket was Co.'S. Mexican dollars were quoted at
J0&smJ2ia. In London bar silver advanced 1-16
to 30 5-l6. Silver bullion certificates repre-
sentlng $1,000 ounces OF silver were sold on the
Stock Exchange at &C.
Money on call in London was IL per cent
and the rate Of discount in the open market
was "a per cent for short and long bills. Brit
ish consols closed at 1923 for money and 10.,Ss
for the account. The amount Of bullion with
drawn from the Bank of England to-day on bal
ance was f134OOO French rentes closed al 102
francs. Paris exchange London. % francs
1Snl? centimes. Discount rate in Berlin was
33s per cent Discount rate In Paris was . per
cent.
The weekly statement OF the Bank OF Eng
land, published to-day, showed a decrease OF
iSlS.eoO in the total reserve and a total de-
crease OF fNO9i4 in bullion. The proportion
or the banks reserve to liability. which last
week was jG.l4 per cent. IS now 80 ~ per cent
The banks minimum discount rate was ad-
vanced to 3 per cent. The weekly statement Of
the Bank of France showed a decrease Of 81
liJO0O francs gold and a decrease OF . so 600
francs silver Further details OF the foreign
market are given In the usual cable report
printed elsewhere
THE FEDERAL TREASURY
To-day's Washington Treasury statement
covering actual results for two days ago COM
pared with the last preceding statement gives
the following balances.
Net gold on fsG 3 ST.: sS g Inc c :,
Ne. On .IlRsG q. hand 49, e. ssas Dec Dec