The Irish standard., 1910-08-20
HEAD OF cHIckAsAW INDIANS
FoRGETs WHERE he GOT
$4,000 IN A LUMP.
FINDS JOB OF CHIEF PROFITABLE
Deposited Sum Right After Handing
Over $4,000 to McMurray.-
Backed Up Oklahoma Attor.
ney in Everything.

Johnson, Chickasaw Indian, and chief
of the $4,000 members of that tribe,
answered: Il don't remember" be.
fore the special congressional invest.
eating committee when asked how it
was that he was able to deposit the
$4,000 to his personal credit . few
days after McMurray had received
$4,000 as attorneys fees.
johnson had testified that he always
had approved of what are known as
the present MoMurray contracts which
provide for the sale of $4,000. eco
worth Of land belonging to the Indians
and which would allow McMurray 10
per cent or 100000 In fees.
He also has urged other Indians to
sign them. Ho testified in what are
known as the citizenship cases several
years ago, that he approved of con-
tract in which MoMurray got a salary
Of $4,000 \ year aud S2,7oo = year ex-
penses. A short time afterwards he
approved Of another contract of which
McMurray obtained for doing the same
work contingent fee of $750,OO0. The
latter fee was to have been $1,000, 900.
but was cut down onehalf by the gov
eminent.
"Why was it you were willing to
give McMurray $75O,0O0 for doing
that for which he already was paid a
salary?" asked Representative c. B.
Miller of Minnesota
Because we thought he earned IT,"
replied Chief Johnson. "He kept of
the rolls 5000 claimants to our prop
erty and thus saved US $4,000 for each
person kept of or total of $4,000. 900.
l would have been willing to have paid
him SO per cent or $s,000,OOo."
Increase Was Sudden.
you were willing to give a little
graft money in order to save that
much land. is that it? Now tell US
why 1t is that few days after that
$760.000 was paid to McMurray you
were able to deposit to your personal
account in a bank at Denison, Texas.
$4,000. Where did you get that $751;
eOO?"
II do not remember. was dealing
in. cattle aud my account varied, SO 1
do not remember"
"The depositing Of $4,000 to your
personal account produced SO little i'm
preston on your mind that you don't
remember? When you became chief or
governor of your tribe, isn't It q fact
that your bank account was only $500?
How. then. will you be able to deposit
$4,000 just short time after Nc.
Murray got his 3750,00o fee?"
Chief johnson insisted he did not
remember.
Asked why $500 in warrants for
expense accounts rendered by McMur.
ray had been made out in his own ia
vor, johnson explained he was accus.
toned to pay off the expense bills in
Cured by McMurray. Johnson said
his salary as chief executive OF his
tribe was $4,000.
In response to questions the witness
said he never had received financial
aid from McMurrsy. He declared a
majority Of his tribe favored paying
McMurray 100000 fee in the pres
ont proposed sale of land.
Johnson occupied almost the entire
day on the stand. Gov. c. N. Haskell
telegraphed his willingness to testify,
but probably will not be called. It
was stated to the committee that other
Indian witnesses, who had said they
waived the contracts had asked to be
recalled to the stand in consequence
of Chief JohnsOn's Testimony