The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-07
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Camp Crag. Big Moose Lake, N. Y.
August 6.---vice-P President Sherman
did not attempt to-day to conceal the
qualification he feels over the en-
phatic and detailed denial yesterday
of Jake, Hamon, at Muskogee. okla,
of the statement made in the course
of the congressional committees in.
vestigation of Senator Cores charges
that an effort was made by the In
dian lobby at Washington to brbe
MN, and that uamon had said that
the Vice-President was directly in
terested IN the success of the McMur-
ray contracts.
MI. Sherman also reiterated his de-
sire TO be called as witness before
me committee. although he thinks
that his own denials arc positive
enough to clear his skirts of any al
iesed connection with the MciIurray
contracts. So earnest does he seem
10 DE IN the matter that some OF his
close friends here believe that should
me investigating committee fail to
subpoena him. he will olll the sub
Ject TO the official attention OF the
senate next winter, and request that
ooay TO take appropriate action to
indicate the integrity of its presiding
officer.
Has Nothing to Add.
Now that Hamon has spoken so
eHphatically in complete denial OF the
statements he is alleged
10 nave made against me-" said the
ce-President, II don't see that r
should or could say anything clsc r
nave nothing at this time to add IA
the statement made Yesterday,
!, WI sherman emphasized the phrase.
AZ AZ thls time His rubicund, boyish
lace shone with more merriment than
y, ~ did Yesterday. AT that time he did
charges. He hesitated perceptib,v ae
hrst to discuss them. The newsepaper
reports OF the investigation at Mus
KroEec had not reached him when The
!, LINES Dispatch correspondent visited
morning.
III, ne was shown a telegram stating
tfat Hamon had sworn positively that
~, ne mad not said to anybody that the
M,G,e-rresldent was Interested in the
rich fruits of the McMumay contracts.
Mhen he read that brief dispatch Mr..
shermans expressive countenance in
stantly showed relief from the mental
strain under which he had been labor
AS II DESTROYS of treating Senator
Gore with charity, Mr.. Sherman said:
IT must not be overlooked that. ac-
eordlng t. the newspaper reports of
say. that Hamon or anybody else had
told him personally that was inter-
ested in the McNIurray contracts. It
appears that 1T was his brother who
also is his secretary, who claims that
lions.
Thus. on this point Hamon has re
pudiated not the Senator, but the SEN
ators brother. He appears. also to
h !, e,t.,
Senator's solemn assertion. upon his
responsibility as Senator that Ha-
mon offered to bride him, With this.
have nothing 20 do / know abso-
lutely nothing of that.
Regrets Cores Action.
Il am sorry. though, that Senator
Gore, who seems to have received from
MS brother the alleged statement OF
did not tell me about 1t before he made
such use of my name at the investiga.
ton More than month has elapsed
since he had come in possession of a
our positions been reversed, should
have told Gore What mad heard about
him before ! rushed into print with it.
however the Vice President added
us all alike, and it Is extremely hard
for one man to put himself in another
mans place."
1t is believed mere that If Mr.. Sher-
.'N'' 'oSs' Aol A4hnc lOl tcIdHQ OF
the Investigating committee within thp
next few days 10 be placed on the wiz
ness stand. even should it be neces.
| sary Tor him to go to Oklahoma, his
omission to do so Will signify his pur.
pose to lay the whole matter before
| the Senate rs soon as that body re-
ASSEMBLIES next December =
| Gore Makes Statement.
Muskogee, Okla, August 6.-Senator
Gore tonight issued the following
| statement relative to e-President
| sherman:
| II have never, either in the Senate or
before the investigating committee,
made any charge whatever against Mr..
Sherman. l never said he was inter-
csted' in the McMurray contracts. di-
rectly or indirectly. The Vice-Presi-
| dents name was mentioned to me by
| Hamon as the man higher up who
was interested in the contracts. When
| ] testified before the committee was
| under obligation to relate all that
| Hamon had said, and when 1t came to
| mentioning what Hamon had said to
me about Mr.. sherman. I named the
lance. l had no alternative but to
tell the truth. 7 think l owe IT to
Mr.. sherman and to. the country to
hope that the fact that Hamon mem
toned Mr.. Sherman Will be relegated
to perpetual oblivion"
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