The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-08-07

I ne said he was authorized to agree
/ 20 give me onc-lourth of the profits
IL l dld. Yes, he said. we are goinz
TO get ten per cent fee out OF il
md you Will get one-fourth of the
| tenth. Now, you sign the letter and
! II VIII be great bargain. ! absolute.
! ~ refused to do it and he went
away"
I "A good many OF your tribe di,!
, S.sn' the contracts with McMurray
didn't they?" asked Cong1 essman {.
&. Miller.
/ Yes, they did that because they
are losing all faith in the govern.
lment. They have lost all faith in the
government officials and their tribal
onicials. too. 1t is because they haze
ocen given so many promises and the
Dromises have not been kept. The
government promised II would sell the
land and distribute the profits in 1906
IL has not done so yet. The indians
are becoming disheaTtened over the
governments promises and that's why
they signed the contracts They
thonght IL would be better to ge
some of the money than none at all -
Indians Needed Moncy.
Are they In hurry TO get money"
Yes. they certainly are. They need
IL. They are poor for they have been
living on promises for so long
Why do YOU indians nave so many
lowyers?"
Because We want to get the mon.
~"
Can you estimate how much your
t'ibe has paid out In attorney fees
In the last ten years
Our tribe In that time has paid
out about 100000"
Among the developments of today
we're:
Senator Curtis told OF having been
summoned TO the White house to dis
cuss with President Taft and Vice
President Sherman the merits of the
1cMurray contracts. President TAT
had expressed the belief that the ten
per cent fee was too high and his
visitor agreed with him. This. the
senator thought. sufficiently refuted
The imputation on that he was Inter
estcd' IN the land deal The senator
knew McMurray for years and had
reyer known OF his attempts TO "n-
GueDce legislation"
Curtis Friend Of Gore.
Senator Curtis also testified that he
also knew of no animosity existing
between himself and Senator Gore OK.
copt that Mr.. Gore had remarked that
Curtis was meddllng too much il,
Oldahoma affairs by fair means and
ly foul
Congressman c. +, Creager of Ok
lahoma attacked the testimony n-e.
viously given by Hamon whom he ac
oused OF having suggested that he
might obtain an interest" I'm the
contracts. This Hamon denied Hamon
lad asserted that before the confer
encc at Washington Creager had call
cd him up on the telephone and made
the appointment Creager I'm a long
Grclmstantial uarritiye Of riding on
street cars. meeting at . restaurant
and going 10 the Occidental hotel. em-
phatlcaliy declared that Hamon had
called him up and that the meeting
was at lannon's solicitation.
Mcclure Denies Being Interested.
Congressman MEG Ilre denied he
was ever interested" In the con.
tracts or had sought their approval
oy congress. He said, he knew Nc
Murray and Hamon. Hamon had some
times stopped al his suite OF rooms.
at his hotel az Washington McMurray
had asked him II he had opposed
tho contracts and, on his answering
he had not. he agreed with Mc9Iurray
70 tell President Taft that the entire
Oklahoma delegation was not op-
posed TO the contracts He said ne