Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05

What happened in another private
room in Washington, where, 1t was al
legged, Hamon made more "overtures,"
was told by Congressman c. e. Creager
of the Third Oklahoma district. Con-
gresham Creager supplemented the
testimony of Senator Gore. He said
that on June 16 last he had teen in
vited by Hamon to meet him in pri-
vate room at the Occidental hotel in
Washington.
Having gone there, Mr.. Creager tes-
tilted, he was informed that he could
have a substantial interest" in the
land deal if he would withdraw his op-
| position to the approval of the NC
| Murray contracts by congress.
| Asked the question, Were any fig
ures mentioned as to how much you
were to receiver" Mr.. Creager replied:
81 did not let it go so far as that. I
| made 1t plain that I was not open to
being influenced in that way.
'I had already gone on record as
| being firmly opposed to the granting of
such an enormous fee to attorneys"
MCGUIRE AN OCCUPANT
CONGRESSMAN Mcclure of Oklahoma.
who was charged by Senator Gore as
being interested in the McMurray con-
tracts was said by Mr.. Creager In his
testimony to have been at the time of
his visit an occupant of the suite of
rooms with Hamon and McMurray at
the hotel
Clerks of Senator Gore testified to
having been invited by McMurray and
Hamon to frog leg suppers at wash
fngton at which the Indian contracts
were to be talked over. These invita-
tions, it was declared, were all turned
down"
One, time, one of the clerks testified,
Hamon said Senator Gore was "aw-
fully hard on his friends"
Senator Gore in his testimony as
serted that the offer of bribery went
so far that Hamon said the $4,000 or
S5O, 900 would not be paid over in the
form of a check or marked money, but
that ''it would be all clean, hard cash.
The committee that heard the
charges was appointed by resolution
of the house of representatives to in
vesigate the McMurray contracts,
which are declared to have been made
by McMurray with 10000 Indians, each
of whom agreed to turn over 10 per
cent of the profit from the sale of his
land, provided the contracts were ap-
proved by congress.
THE COMMITTEE
The committee, headed by Congress
man Charles H. Burke of South Da-
kota, chairman, is composed of Con-
gresham Philip P. Campbell of KAN
sas, Charles B. Miller of Minnesota,
John j. Stevens of Texas and r. w.
Saunders of Virginia.
It's initial session was held today.
Congressman Creager's appearance
on the witness stand followed series
of sensational statements. Among
Senator Cores assertions were the
following:
That Hamon told him that man
"higher up" in the government was in
terested in the approval of the con-
tracts and that therefore there was no
reason why Senator Gore should not
be; that when asked who was the man
higher up Hamon replied the vice pres
ident.
That Hamon told him Senator Cur
tbs of Kansas was Interested" in the
deal.
That Hamon told him Congressman
Mcclure of Oklahoma was interested
in the deal.
That Hamon told him an employe Of
the department of justice at Washing
ton was interested" in the deal.
That he (Gore) knew the name Of
the employe, but would not divulge his
name or the name of his informant,
especially because the latter would lose
his position.
That former Senator Long of Kansas,
acting as counsel for McMurray, had
gone to President Taft on April rs to
urge the approval of the contract, but
that the president had said ut would
take a good deal of argument to con-
vince him that the amount of the fee
asked by McMurray was justified"
Senator Curtis today sent telegram
to the committee denying he was in
any way interested in the contracts,
and Offering to appear before the COM
mittee..
Chairman Burke said Senator Curtis
would be subpoenaed to testify.
CORES TESTIMONY
An account of that part of Senator
Cores testimony referring to Vice
President Sherman follows:
Mr.. Burke-In your conversation
with Hamon you stated he named a
hn -nil n.,nr in