Show I Gl Y CHARGES MADE I Hitchcock Accused of I Improper Conduct I Involving ing Payment Rayment of Money ST LOUIS LAWYERS RS GRAFT SENATORS LOOKING INTO THE MATTER or of the acts of Secretary tary I I in Indian Territory matters i has been In progress b n a select elect of tho senate took a new newt t turn today when hen formal of proper on the lJ part t or of the r f tary w re flied with Sen Senator tor Clark I of th the committee t l Ipres of the eastern trIbe If Indians The charges are h ing rig examined d b by Clark or of minS and Long of oC and if as serIous aa a tJ 1 ears on casual Secretary will vili lf tailed upon b by the senate commit iN Sr for fOl an explanation The charges V TC l In tho form or of certified copies of I tracts court decrees and records of 01 department nt or of the interIor whIch that Secreta Secretary Hitchcock had payment or of fees to certain at t in St were employed hy by hl his approval amounting to 11 recovering for the Cherokee Nation n a um sum not exceeding 4 Paid Out of Other Funds h hi money thus thu recovered not beIng lirt to pay the fees ot of attorneys s sf f r fec WAS paid out of other othar mone moneys s for Under r the t of contract under which the at b by Secretary Hitch I Ik empl employed d only five per cent f the first million dollars or any part of could b be paId to the attorneys rhe court or of claims allowed the five n or 2300 and Ind certified the d decree cree to Hitchcock cr payment Hitchcock certified to secretary off of the treasury treasur r that n a nm m rendered to for 1 by b the qS ys was in conformity with t o d 1 the contract under they were I d the decree or of the court or of arns aima and the statute which I r resulted In the fe fee Connection by Marriage Thi attorneys who were employed b by th approval of Hitchcock HitChcoc were mem of the firm ot of Finkelburg Nagle Nagie and Uld Kirby one of the members being H ft onn cUon by marrIage ot Of Hitchcock PrIor to the employment or of this firm the ase of the Cherokee Indians was d by the Indians themselves in 1 th 1 hands or of the late attorney WillIam M 1 Springer This selection was sub under the law n w to the approval or of orth th s of the InterIor and he to ratify It and insisted upon tl employment ment of another firm the nr finally S selected l being boing the tho St LuIs firm mentioned whIch Hitchcock AP proved d Ask Return of Money I Payment of the t foe e or of this firm lm was IliadI from funds collected for the east ru rn tribe or of the Cherokee Nation was entirely separate and in from the fund collected for th tribe The eastern Chero Cheros I s have now placed th matter mattEI before 1 ic senate committee with a vIew to funds titus thus taken from rom them of the result of 1110 charges a as th they effect Secre f uy p it Is the of S fk and the other otherS othery y S of the senate committee that the flU eastern castern will have to be for the tho amount of fees ev cv taken from them S paid to the attorn attorneys ys of the Cher tribe |