AMERICAN LANDS SCANDALS.
SERIOUS CHARGES. Uy TeJeeraoto—Press Association—OoDyriebt (Rec. August 5, 10.30 p.m.) New York, August 5. As a result of Senator Gore's recent statement in Congress that he had beon offered a bribe of £1000 not to oppose the l recognition of certain Indian land' sales in Oklahoma, a Congressional inquiry is being held into circumstances surrounding the sales of Indian land in that territory. In giving evidence before the inquiry, , Senator Gore stated that the agents of the . M'Murray I syndicate had offered ■ him fifty thousand dollars if be would withdraw his resolution opposing the sale of 450,000 acres of coal and asphalt lands . belonging to tho Choctaw and ' Chickesaw Indians, for which a New ¥ork syndicate was paying thirty million dollars (£6,000,000), whereof the M'Murray syndicate would receive three million dollars for bribes. Senator Gore said that Mr. J. S. Sherman, Vice-President of the United States, was interested in the M'Murray contracts. Mr. Sherman replied that the statement had no foundation whatever.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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165AMERICAN LANDS SCANDALS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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