CHARGE OF BRIBERY.
Le:eived August 5, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK. August 5. Senator Gose, giving evidence at the Congressional enquiry, stated that an agent of the McMurray syndicate offered him 50,000 dollars if tie wiihdr w the resolution opposing the sale of 40,000 acres of coal and asphalt lands belonging to Choctaw and Chicasaw Indians, for whicn a New York syndicate wis paying thirty million dollars, whereof the McMurray syndicate was to receive three million dollars in bribes. He said that Vice-President Sherman was interested in the McMurray contracts. Mr Sherman replied that Gome's statement] had no foundation whatever.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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99CHARGE OF BRIBERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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