The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-05

pensation is not too great. Practically
all the Indians in the ChoetaW and
Chickasaw nations want their land sold.
i do not know anything about the
incident of which Senator Gore and
Congressman Creager spoke. I have
gone to them many times, but went
to them IN person and did not send an
agent"
leg" banquets and to assertions by Ha-
mon that Senator Gore was going back
on his friends were made in the testi-
mony of D. F. Gore, private secretary
and brother TO Senator Gore.
story OF Senator's Brother.
d. F. Gore said that he was in his
brothers private office at noon on May
8, when Hamon appeared.
Il stepped into an adjoining office
and left the senator and Hamon alone,
and out. When they quit talking. in
about thirty or forty minutes, Hamon
came out into my room. Well he
SAID, Dick, the senator Is getting aw-
fully hard on his friends. 1 want TO
make lot or money, Dick. and 1 don't
care how 1 make it,
81 didn't know then what they had
been talking about, but when HamOn
left, the senator said he had been talk
ing about The McMuFray contracts and
HamOn had offered him $4,000. The
senator said Hamon offered TO increase
the amount. That's all that was said
to me about the matter at that time.
Later McMurray came to me and said
he was sure that Senator Gore did not
understand those contracts and wished
he knew OF some way OF making him
understand. He invited me TO the hotel
10 talk il over so l could tell the Sena-
tor He also wanted TO know If would
attend a frog leg banquet which he was
arranging. l declined all OF these in
vitations."
StenOgrapher Testifies.
J, Leroy Thompson, stenosrapher to
Senator Gore, testified that he also was
in and out Of the senator's room when
Hamon was present. He, too, was in
ViIed TO the frog Leg banquet, he
said but declined.
Congressman Campbeil-How long
were the senator and Hamon in confer
ence together?
Thompson-About thirty or forty
minutes. When Hamon came out
overheard him say he wanted TO make
a lot Of money and he did not care how
did you hear anything that was said
at the cOnference?'
mo, did not. Usually when HamOn
called l heard everything that was
effort to conceal IL. But this time il
was different"
IN what way was it different? Did
Hamon act differently"
Yes. he appeared not to want to say
any thing when 1 was in the room.
which was quite opposite from his
usual manner.
Indian on stand.
That the ChOctaw Indians, who had
protested against giving 10 per cent at
tOrneys' fees To MeMurray, had been
asked 20 rescind their action. formed
the substance OF testimony by w A.
Durant, ChOctaw Indian and a mem
Der or the Oklahoma state legislature
Durant said that at a Choctaw coun-
Gil meeting resolution had been
passed against the McMurray con-
tracts. Later he said number of per
sons had gone out into the ChOctaw
nation urging the Indians to sign a
document declaring themselves in favor
OF the contracts, but most OF the
tribe, he asserted, maintaine6 their op-
What HamOn Says.
Mr.. Hamon tonight declined to dis
euss Senator Cores charges and said
he would not make any statement ex-
cept IN response to categorical ques-
lions. The following questions in an
interview were then put TO him;
Did you offer bride TO Senator
Il did not"
Did you offer to give him an in
terest in the McMurray contracts?"
i did not"
Did you offer to bride Congressman
CreageF?"
Il did not"
Did you offer him an interest in the
McMurray cOntracts?"
Il did not"
did you mention TO Senator Gore, or
10 anyone else, that Vice President
Sherman was interested in the approval
or the McMurray cOntracts?"
anyone"
did you say Senator Curtis was in
terested in the McMurray cOntracts?"
= did not"
Are you yourself interested In the
approval Of the MeMurray contracts?"
Il am not"
Mr.. HamOn declined TO answer other
questions, saying he expected 10 appear
before the committee, when he woulu
tell all he knew.
While submitting to the questioning
Mr.. HamOn laughed heartily and while
as he said. he was not disposed to con
slider Senator Cores charges as q Joke, |
yet he declined to show any anxiety
over the developments OF the day. say
ing he believed his position in the in
vestigation would be properly set
forth when he went on the stand, which !
ne hoped TO DO tomorrow. At that
time, ne added, he would not hesitate |
cheerfully TO answer all questions put
to him
Denial by Curtis.
Topeka, Kan, Aug. 4.-United States |
Senator Charles Curtis, when told to- |
day about the allegations made by Sen
ator Gore at the Muskogee congress |
slonal inquiry into the Indian attorney |
fee matter, in which his name was
used as one of those interested in the
McMurray contracts. emphatieally de- |
MED having any connection with the |
matter whatever, and gave the Presi- |
dent, members of the cabinet and his !
fellow senator's as witnesses to prove |
his assertions.
Senator Curtis today sent a dispatch !
TO Chairman Burke of South Dakota, |
OF the board of inquiry. and Congress-
man Campbell OF Kansas, a member of
the board, in which he declared that |
the use of his name in connection with
the McMurray contracts was without |
and that he would appear |
before the committee at any time and !
place.
After sending these dispatches, Sena- |
tor Curtis made the following state |
ment for the Associated Press:
The use of my name in connection |
with the McMurray and Long contracts |
is without foundation. / am not and |
have not been interested with any of !
them, directly or indirectly. 1 have
taken the position that the ChickasaWs !