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New York Cotton
New Orleans, July 3.-Today's trad
ing again sent cotton to new low lov
el:! fyr tin; week. At their lowept tho
trading months wore Kl points down. I
Tho duse was at a not loss ol' ?? to ll i
point:-.
Increased rainfall over thc huit, I
bearish cablet- ami bearish features
in the weekly rtatistlcal statement
wore the chief Influences that stltnu- j
lated selling. Toward the end nf the |
day there was a decided disposition
on tho part of shorts to take their \
profits over the week-end. Purchasers .
tor this purpose had a steadying in"''- !
once on t ho mat ket. j
At one time In tho afternoon the1
market neted ns if il would react up- j
ward strongly bul tho small mill tak
ings for tho week. 107.000 hales
ngnlntl 230,000 this Wonk lar.t year ?
checked buying. The comparatively),
small decrcaru in the visible, supply,
also caused bearish comment.
Cotton futui cs closed t'tcady.
July' 12S1; Augus? 127S; October
1227; December 1227; January 122D;
Mai eli 1230. . . . v'
Spots quiet. 1-8 off; middling 13
7-16; strict middling 12 13-16, Sales.
I.llfi bales; to arrive, none.
X V COTTON.,
New York, July 3.-Thc cotton mar
ket wus weak and unsettled today
with prices lower under general heavy
selling encouraged by easy cables, re
ports of beneficial rains in the south
and improving crop accounts. Octo
ber contracts sold off to 12.13, or 15
points under yesterday's closing lig
ures and $4.65 per bale below tho high
records of June 1. Covering for over
the two day adjournment and a mod
erate doini'nd from I rade sources
caused some Irregularly late in the
afternoon and closing prices wen
steady hut from 10 to 14 points not
lower.
The market opened barely steady
al a declino of 3 lo s points. There
was ionic trade buying and covering
of thorts. but rallies of :: or I points
were followed by rcnewt d weakness
and liquidation was almost sensa
tionally active during the middle di
the day. The marget broke very
sharpjy with the ucl ive mouth's sell
ing nliouL ll lo 1? points under yester
day's tlnal figurer. Rallies of ?> or 7
points followed on covering by re
cent "sellers. The detailed weather
reports showing generally good rains
over tho belt undoubtedly added lol
ibo cmilldcncc nf lonni bears.
Cotton futuros cipecd steady.
Open. Close, j
July.1251 1245 1
August.1247 1342'
October. .1221 I2IS
December.J2;t:t 1227,
January.1221 1217
.Mate!:.12:11 ?221 ?
Spat eottfm qul't. Middling uplands ;
1225; middling Cult 1250. Sal??.-iCO. (
Liverpool Cotton/
Liverpool, July 3;--Spot cotton cns
lor, good middling 708: mlddllog .74?;
low middling GOS; Sales 7.000; specu
lation and export 500. Receipt*, none.
Futures barely steady. July 711
1-2: July-Augiut 711 tvJUSeptember
October .670; l)oocmbei-January 67.4
1-2; -February-March 66?; April-May
?56 1-2.
Cotton Seed Oil , j
New York, July 3.-Cotton seed, was
linn in the absence,of July teudora,
covering for over the holiday and sup-'
port hu pil ed by the advance in lard.
Kilial prices wore un ch nu ged .tu ;i
points net higher. Sales 4,oo0 bar
rell,
Commercial
Stocks and Bonds
New York. July :;. There was e/i-'.
dunce in the eour.se ol the day's dull
hut. faii?y ulrong ?took market tanti
the llnaucial community ii- eager to
seize upon any valid exen, e or reason j
to a?vunee quot* d values. Thc impel?- '
ing factor W;UJ I he overnight news j
from Washington, which implied that ?
a close: understanding of mutual
needs wa;; lu bc established between
the administration and (lie tlnanciul
Industrial and commercial interests
of the country.
Stock? Opened with substantial
gains koi nio.it o? I be speculative inv
erties, mid the advance extended dur
ing the early re?:! ion. Later prices
shaded : omowhut, probably as a re
na?t-of realizing tor prolils, and tin*
movement l.bon went Into various in
active specialties, some of which rose
I.V.... or throe points or more. In the
final dealings the market relapsed In
to its recent dull state, hut closed
with a linn undertone.
London was more cheerful and
bought about ."..OOO sharer here.
Almost the ont) ?.ew financing in
the local market during the week waa
tho sale to a bunking syndicate of the
recently issued $20,000,0001 of North
ern Pacific railway bonds.
Forecasts of the hank statement
were not very wide of the mark, the
actual cash losy aggregating slightly
more than $27.000.000 with a decrease
in reserves or $20,780.000. These con
ditions are likely to be largely cor
rected in another week.
fiends were nv. Total sales
par value* 1.803.000.
Panama coupon 3s advanced 1 1-2
per cent on tall during ?In: wjok.
Chicago Grain
Chicago, July :i Disquiet regard
ing chances of bl \ rust damage in
the next fofiy-oi hours gave thc
control of the v.. ?1 market most of
the time today t- >e bulla. The close
wnr. steady ut ange varying from
3"-Se ofY to 1-lc . . compared with last
night. Corn : ered u net decline of
7-8 to lc. am .ats a loss of 1-8 and
1-4 to l-4c. rfc link-hod 10 to 20 c
down, but o* wi.-" provisions show
oil u gain of . 2 1-2 to 7 1-2 and 10c.
Weekly Cotton
New York. July 8.- The government
j ion report making the condition 70.fl
per cent, and showing a decrease of
1.3 per cent tu act enge, was the event
ol the week ?n the cotton market.
This.oUicial rtatcment proved just
about a < xpecteil v.ith reference to
ac re? ge. but the improvemont of over
5 per cent in thc crop prospect as
comparad with May 25. lepresentutl
au. njmr.st unprecedented gain for the
month of June and led lo heavy sell
ing for both accounts. Prices broke
ve? y sharply in consequence and De
ccmhor c.outructs sold ac low us 12.25
dining today's trading, or 17 points
nuder the loweri level roached on tho
June ivaotlon, and about $4.25 per
bale, under the high records made
right after thc publication of tho May
25 'condition figures.
Local hulls pointed .out. that not
withstanding the big improvement re
port i'd In the crop, tho condition, waa
still below the ten your average, and
more than 8 per cent under thc con
dition reported In 1911 with which
season ; onie are now comparing tbc
pro; poi ls. while it was ' also calcu
lated from the otliclul formula placing
thc value nf 100 per cent on ..June 25
at 232 pounur on lint cotton to the
nero, that thc yield indicated on the
estimated acreage was a little nuder
fourteen million hales of 490 pounds
net, excluding linters. Moreover, lt
?
waa claimed that : pinners were buy-'
inp more fi eely on tin (leoline, but the
extent of the crops' Improvement
und the contra urUion of generally fav
orable weather, rvldeutly created a
more aggrcsr'vlv bearish sentiment j
around thc ring (han for some months
post, and their wore numerous pre- |
lietinna ol a further decline during
tho dayfc trudi:"?.
Beneficial iain? were reported in I
tho .south this mot ning and local
bears claimed that n can vars o? the
belt nt lue pr - '.-nt time would show
an average condition considerably
above thy ligures ns of June 25 and
probably better than the average for
tho past ft-n years.
Money On Call
New Y?rk. July 3.-Mercantile pa
per, 3 3-4 und i l-l.
Stelling strong; sixty days. 485.S0;
Icinand, 487.70.
Commercial bills, 485 1-4.
Ilur silver, r.r, 5-8.
Mexican dollars, 44.
Covcrnu'eiit bonds steady; rail
road bonds steady.
Call money steady. 1 1-2 and 2; rui
ng rate 2; closing I ?-2 and 2.
Time loan.; custer;;sixty days. 2 1-4 ?
ind 1-2.; ninety days, 2 3-4 and 3; six
iic-nths, t! 3-4 and 4.
Weekly Clearing House UcporU
New^York, July 3,-Tho statement
)f the actual condition of clearing
louse bunk i und trust companies for
he week (live day J) show.3 that they
lold $10,580,450 reservo in excess of
egal requirements. This is a decrease
>f $2O,7i?S,400 from last week.
Actual condition:
Loans, decrease S1.S71.000.
Specie decrca.c, $26,134.000.
Legal tenders decreased. ?95fi,O00.
Net deposits decreased $21.684.000.
Hank:- cash rererve in vault, $300,
103.000.
Thusl companies cash reserve in
raul!, $7:1.071,000.
Aggregate, nash reserve, $463,464,
)00. r
Trust companies reserve with clear
up house members carrying 25 per
zvtiL cash reserve. $74.306.000.
State iianUi- and trust companies in
[.router New York, not included In
blearing house statement: '
Loans and Investments decreased
I1.4?S.C00.
Specie gold decreased $147,600.
Currency and bank notes decreased
143,800. . ?
Total deposits decreased $2.396,500.
Bradstreet's Report.
New York, July 3.- Bradstreet's to
morrow will eny:
"Good to excellent crop reports,
luiet illsitrlbutlve trade and dull de
arer, ed Industry and manufacture are
thc salient features In this week's, ad
rien*. Tho improvement shown by
.-ot I on during June, added to eonHo
led good weather for corn, oats .and
Vinter wheat, made the general crop
idvlces tho best of the year, or, iri
loed, lot many years past, though
hay, tobacco and possibly spring
wheat may net meet earlier sanguine
anticipation:'-. Distributive trade
tended to quiet as thc mid-year holt
layr. approached, but Jupe waa a &ooj
nonth in actual sales, both by whole
;alera and retailers, especially in dry
?ood?. wearing apparel, groceries and
uillinery.
"For tho Week: ? Fallnrea 243
lgalnst 104 last year.. "Wheat exporta
i.700,957 against 3.601, 323; bank
dearingr $3,724,241 an increase of 1.5
per cent."
The South Carolina Experiment Sta
tion has Just Issued a bulletin con
taining a revised. Hst of bulletins of
the station available for distribution.
This may be had by applying to the
director of tho Experiment Station,
Ulemron ?ollcgc,:.
?TH CONKS OVEK
American Crews Tied for I he Kn vt lim
Troph) in h turin ml.
Kenley on Thuine:-, July 3.-The
co ve I ed granel challenge cup cuiiiea lo
ile United States.
Two American eight-oared crew? |
tin- I,ilion Hunt Club of Boston, and
tbe Harvard University Kcuond crew -
were lett to light tom o i row for its
posse:- ion hy victories today in the
Bcini-fliial heats over Mayeucce, Win
nipeg, re: peel Ivoly.
Hot h were most exciting races row
ed in almost record time and won only
latter a bani > trugglo near the tl nish- !
I lng line in each instance.
Tli<> race hoi ween Harvard and
Winnipeg was rowed in the best tim? ?
nicol d<d at i li if* year':- regatta - seven '
minutes Hat.
Democrats visit Roosevelt.
Oyster Hay, N. V.. July 3.- lt war.
I learned tonight that following the vis- j
j it lo Colonel Roosevelt of Mayor ?
I Mitchell, of .New Y or?, other deuio
eiatic leaderr probably will come to!
( Kater Hay. Their Identities were not
distilo: ed, but it is said that they are
democrats 6f. prominence, few de
velopments : tnce the colonel's re
sumption of political activities have
gi-en rise to so much conjecture as
his conferences, patt and intended.
ItuiMni?c- Pingue Cosily.
Xew Orluanc. July 3.--Tho cost of
Un- campaign for thc eradication of
bubonic plague here will be from $J0,.
OOO to $25,000 per month and a mini
mum of six nirttithi will be required
to thoroughly free the city of con
tagion, according to a statement to-'
today by Surgeon General Rupert
Hlue. ot I he United States public
health and murine hospital service,
before a cttt&une committee. Dr. BJuc
today received, authorisation from
Secretary ol Ibo Treasury McAdoo to
take charge ol tho work here.
BRITISH-DOHR IVAR Ula.
I ST KR ANSWERS CALL
(Continued from page I.)
thirtieth anniversary of his flrBt elec
tion.
Since that day the strong figbfer
always with his loyal wife, daughter
hud been an invalid, a pathetic on
looker at the political game, pictured
of W. C. Endicotte, of Massachussctts.
who was President Cleveland's sec
retary of war, beside him. His chief
I consolations were the growing pol it t
; cal prominence ot his son. Austen
Chamberlain, and thc loyalty of hin
constituents, birmingham would uot
deposed her leader, although he waa
no longer able to represent her up
on the floor of the House of Com
mons In each election he was re- \
turned to his nhl seat, and appeared
afterward in the bouse but onc.o,
bis way to thc speaker's desk on the
where amid respecful silence, be made
arm of bis son and took, the oath of
office. January 5, 1013, Mr. Chamber
Iain wrote to his constituents, resign
ing bis seat, and saying:
"I cannot hope again to do my work i
in Parliament, end 1 feel thal our city
and the constituency need tho ser
vices of ii younger man."
For High Tariff.
While his greatest claim to fame
was his determined and brilliant ad
vocacy for years of a protective pol
icy for Great Britain, the citadel ni
Free Trade, he will also be remem
bered as thc bitterest and most force
ful opponent of Gladstone in that
statesman's efforts for Home Rule -for
Ireland; as one of thc founders of thc
Liberal-Unionist party: and as tho
Minister whose policy In South Africa
involved his country in the greatest
war it had experienced since the
Crimean conflict, but blotted out Ute j
two. Boer reo"Mics and made South .
Africa "all red."
From the day he left University Col- j
lege, London, to enter his father's .
suirew factory at Birmingham, '
Joseph Chamberlain devoted his bost
energies to " the principle of con- ;
stFuctlve reform." It was In, 1868, '
Just 32 years after- tho birth In Lon- ;
don. that he recolved lila baptism of,
nubile life, ae town councillor of
Birmingham, later serving as mayor,
for successive terms. He gave his
whole time to the cause of munici
pal reform, and what had been pre
viously o.-?e f?f, the worst governed
cities In England, became a model
for municipal re.'orma.
Against Vrlsh, Hille
In 1870 he outere 1 Parliament, ber
lpg. elected without opposition, as., a
Liberal from. Birmingham. In his
early years iu the Commons be sat'
among the Home Rule Liberals with j
whoso aspirations ho waa supposed to.
sympathlzo, but a few years later he
emphatically disabused his associates
in the House of any notion they may
nave had of his belief in ' separate
government for Ireland.
In lesa ' than four yearn he was a,
cabinet; minister, entering; Glac'.* tone's -
government in 1880 aa President of
the Board of Trade, and, in lesq, than
a decade bia hold on popular opinion
was almost as great aa Gladstone's.
After the general election of 1885
be became President of tho Local
Government Board, but by the spring
o? 1886 his and Gladstone's relations
on the. latter's-. Irish policy had be
come so strained that be broke with
the great premier, resigned his pince
in the -cabinet and} left the ' Liberal
party never to. return to it
He, Lord Hartington (afterwards
the Duke' of Devonshire), G. J. Gos
chen and others high la thc Liberal
party who saw in their former lead
er's home rulo proposals and pro
paganda a monaco to the integrity of
Uie empire, formed; a new party to
resist them. Thoy ca.led themselves
Liberal Unionists anti anti-homo rule
was, in the beginning, their, main
tenet. Lord Hartington was the first
leader, but when he Waa .elevated to
the peerage t^rough^jlhe death ot Ma
father. Mr. Chamberlain was chosen
the party's chief.
Meanwhile.. Mx. Chamberlain had
visited Hie ir?.'ted States. November
ISS7 to February 1SS8. as the hoad of
thc British Representatives upon the
Aniericuo-Britinli joint high commis
sion which was l<> negotiate a treaty
for the settlement of the long standing
fisheries dispute.
A '.rcuty was signed,out tu?.United
States Sena??- refused lo ratify it.
Lute in 1SKK Mr. Chamberlain re
turned to the United States, t|??:: time
to be married. Having been twice u
widower lie took ar, his third wife
Miss Mary Endieotto. daughter of Wil
litun c. Bndlcolto. President Cleve?
land's secretary of war.
During the campaign tit Mr.
Chamberlain worked with great ef
fect* and subsequently in (lu- Com
mons he was to the forefront In ull
the assaults on the Irish Government
HUI. and clashed fretiuently with Mr
Gladstone. The Home Killers con
sidered him a roncgudd and this rank
ling he aggravated by his rusping tac
tics. During- debute on the bill, one
night in July. 1893, MK. Gladstone
tartly compared him with "the devil's
advocate," The next night, in debate
Mr. Chamberlain retorted so caustical
ly that T. I?. O'Connor yelled at him
"Judas! Judas!" followed presently
by ?i freu fight on the floor between
several members-a rare outbreak ia
probably the most staid legislative
body ki the world - accompanied by
vigorous hissing by the galleries.
The Birmingham mun with tin.
monocle and long aquiline nose tbotli
tho delight of the English curica!ur
ists); the keen bead and the forcefu
tongue; the faultlessly fashionabb
attire topped olT invariably with i
white orchid In the coat lapel wa
nn? H commanding ligure at West
minuter On tin? formation of HIP ,
coalition- (Conservative and Union
ist) ministry.; In IS?I5, hu took office*
under Lord Salisbury as Colonial Ser
rctiiry. In I h ic position lils remark
able powers were severely teated by
South Africa- the chain of strenuous
events he finning 'Villi Jameson's
hare-brained raid, and' ending, when
Lord Kitchener had worn down (he
stubborn Hoer resistence. willi tho
Treaty of Yeroeniglng -but be stood
the test. Ills enemies, too, savagely
assailed-hrlli ar, being the adroit tool
of the Kami gold mine owners and
his coarse toward the Afrikanders
was a leading issue in tl'.'.: campaign
of LiiOO und during J DUI. Hut he wan
tho objcot of yuoat, popular demon
strations before his visit to South Af
rica late in IPO J op a mission of con
ciliation and observation and also on
his return early lil l?t?'t.
The war and the elections over he
set himself the task pf fostering the
relations between; tho mother coun
try ami tho' colonie;. The constitu
tion for the Australian Common weal I li
was one of bis proil net ions.
Just before lita (?Tih birthday Cham
berlain lattijclied his scheute f fiscal
reform-; v.-hlch pially succeeded in
: n'.itlicg du Unionist party. It was
in May and at Birmingham that be
announced hi:: new policy, and find
ing in September thal his party was
not ready tor rad it al a change, be
lesigned Lo ?lev?te himself to popu
larizing hie doctrines. He fought lin
cause willi a gunius. eloquence, on
ergy and organization, never equalled
in any previous moment in "ilia career,
bul hi:> parly wavered and went down
lo defeat in tho election of I'JOU. The
one bright spot for the Unionist party
during those dark days, was Birming
ham and vicinity, where Chamberlain
carried big candidate to victory.
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