CORRUPTION IN AMERICA
A SERIOUS CHARGE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received August 5, 10:30 p.m'. New York, August 5. • Senator Gore, giving evidence at the Congressional enquiry, stated that the agents of the McMurray Syndicate offered him 50,000 dollars if he -withdrew the resolution opposing the sale of 450,000 acres' of coal asphalt lands belonging: to the Choctaw Ghicasaw Indians, for which a New York syndicate were paying thirty million dollars, •whereof the McMurray syndicate would receive three million dollars. Senator Sherman, he said, was interested in the McMurray contracts. Senator Sherman replied that Senator Gore's statement had no foundation.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 101, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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99CORRUPTION IN AMERICA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 101, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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