Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-25

he felt in honor bound to continue
these efforts ITO prevent this steal
from those defenceless Indians in Ok
lahoma" He declared that if the con-
tracts were ever carried into effect 1t
must be Done with the full knowl-
edge that whether or not there had
actually been corruption, it had been
attempted"
Learning that the House had not
vet acted upon the conference report
Mr.. Gore FASTENED to the other cham
Der, where he told friends of the eff
forts alleged to have been made to
corrupt members. When the confer
ence report was brought up in the
House, Rep. Murphy of Nevada call
ed attention to the situation. He de-
clared that an attorney had been
lobbying in the capital for long
time in the interest of legislation
which would validate his contracts
with Indians.
Name the attorney" demanded sew
eral members.
y. F. McMurray," replied Mr.. Muir
ply.
The House almost unanimously re-
jected the conference agreement.
When the action of the House was
reported to the Senate, Mr.. Hale NOV
ed that the Senate further insist upon
it's amendments to the bill and asked
. for a further conference.
Mr. Gore re-entered the chamber at
this jnncture and obtaining recogni-
ton reiterated his protest against the
provision inserted in conference.
Another sensation was caused when
he declared that the friend in need"
| had told him during the conversation
of May that "a member of this SEN
ate, a member of the Indian affairs
committee and a member of the House
committee on Indian affairs We're in
terested in these contracts"
Mr. Gore said he had just seen Mr..
Tawney, one of the House conferees,
and had asked him who had suggest :
cd the provision which was substituted
for the original Senate amendment.
And Mr. Tawney named the very
same representative who was men
toned to me May 6 as icing interested
in these contracts" exclaimed the Ok
lahoma senator Il understand that
this member of the House and McMur-
ray live together in the same hotel in
| this city.
senators looked aGhast at the dis
| closures made by the Oklahoma sena-
, tor Mr. Gore declined to mention any
names The bill was then returned to
conference. Mr. Gore had prepared a
resolution providing for an inVestiSa =
| ton, but he withheld it upon assur-
| ance being given by Mr.. Hale that the
: interests of the Indians would be prop
| crly safeguarded. 1t was brought out
| in the speech by Rep. Murphy that the
| McMurray firm. would receive 10 per
cent of the tribal property of the Choc-
| taws and Chickasaws under the terms
| of it's contracts with the Indians in
| the event these contracts were ap-
| proved.
According to Rep. Madden of Illinois
and Carter of Oklahoma, there are $50
acres of coal lands in Oklahoma worth
| $16O, OOO. 900, Of which the attorneys would
get SIG, 100000 under the existing contracts.
Mr.. Carter said similar contract had
been disapproved by President Roosevelt
and that now they had come to Presi-
dent Taft and he and the secretary of the
| interior had refused to approve it.
| This is one of the biggest steals ever
attempted before Congress-" said Muir
ply. After naming McMurray as the man
who had been trying to put the alleged
| scheme through, he said McMurray had
been ably assisted by Cecil Lyon, ''chair-
man of the state Republican committee
| of Texas and national Republican COM
mitteeman from that state"
| Mr.. Murphy, who was once an attorney
for the Creek Indians, tonight figured a,
$2o.S6O 600 the ultimate amount that would
accrue to McMurray and those associated
| with him under the 10 per cent. contract
| MnM,,nua,