The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-07
choctaw Chiefs Son Goes on Stand
and Testlfies About the
Gore Bribery
Charge.
OFFERED MUCH MONEY
Old Indian Green Curtain Is Said to
Have Been Offered Quarter
Of Million
Dollars.
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MUSkOGEE. Okla. Aug 7.Sensa-
tional testimony by Indian witnesses
marked this afternoons session of the
Gore investigation Before the ses-
sion closed, the congressional COM
mittee had before it evidence purport-
Ing to show that d. C. McCurtain son
OF G ief Green McCurtain of the Choc-
taws had been offered $25 900 by ].
f. McMurray provided he would
withdraw his opposition to a bill
providing for the sale OF Indian
lands, out of which McMurray would
have made fee Of $I000,00O, that
I Chief Green McCurtain was offered
a quarter interest in the Murray mil
| lion dollar contracts, providing he
would use his influence in McMurray's
| behalf
1t was also shown that McMurray
was not the only one who would
1 have gotten rich quick had congress
passed the bill, as no less than fifty
individuals had been circulating
among the Indians seeking signatures
to contracts, similar to the one held
|Ly McMurray
And further developments showed
/ that there are political lines in the
situation, drawn clearly between Sen
ator Gore, who made the charge
that he was offered $4,000 by Jacob
L. Hamon to withdraw his fight on
the indiana bill, and Congressman
Bird MCGUIRE of the Oklahoma dis
trict.
/ Thus far however, there mas beer
no evidence supporting the Gore
charge that Vice-president Sherman
is interested in the case. The charges
brought by the two McCurtains came
as a complete surprise. McMurray
I has hardly been mentioned in the
case heretofore, his name only being
i used when the "McMurray contracts
i were brought up. Senator Gore name
only Jack Hamon as offering him the
Y bribe and Representative Creager
who also alleges that he was zap
j preached named Hamon, but did moi
!, mention McMurray
! The junior McCurtain is the first
to make charge aginst McMurray
and it came just after Senator Chas
Curtis had left the stand where he
denied any connection with the
scandle. He ended his testimGSy BY
declaring that he had known rscMur
ray as an attorney for the Choctaws
but had always considered him fair
in his dealings and he did not seen
to resort to improper methods"
McMurrary tonight gave out state
ment, denying that he ever Offered
McCurtain $4,000 as was testified.
Chief McCurtain said his son-in-aw
George Scott, approached him in re
gard to endorsing the sale of the Nc
Curtain tract of land but he refused
to be drawn into the deal The wit
ness showed the widespread move
ment that was on foot to have the Nc
Murray contracts put through b.
reading telegram submitted to hin
Z by Chief Johnson, of the Chickasaws
! He said Johnson asked him to sigl
the telegram end get as many of hi
people to send similar messages.
) The telegram follows:
"Hon. Richard Adams
+ Bank Bldg. Washington, D. C.
7 ''As Chickasaw citizen endors
your action relative to the matter o
! reopening the tribal rolls and appre
) ciate the attitude of the president
/ We desire that McMurray be recoe
} n1zeQ, the rOilS 10 remain closed AM
OIL all tribal property to be disposed o
s. and the proceeds distributed"
) THE telegram itself is the bes
Il evidence" Mcguire replied hotly
Read the telegram"
) Gore colored, and Mcclure, quickl
/ recovering himself, reached for th
h telegram and read it. Gore is blind
4 j. Malone Turner, negro. appoint
j, ed to Liberia by President Grant an
now working in the interests G
S "Freedman" was the last witness tc
o day.
!: The. taking of evidence is closed an
= the committee will go to McAliste1
s where the Investigation will be re
s sumed Monday From McAlister tn
o committee goes to Sulphur Springs
I" and then to Oklahoma City.