Show I CALLS I IT i PLAIN PLIN BUSINESS DL I SULPHUR Okla Okia Aug AUE r. r is J. j. j F. F M rc Murray whose contracts ts with the Indians In In- allowing lowin him 10 per ii f f cent r nf fees on the sale of worth of land is 18 the subject of of an investigation ton by con congress es went on 01 the tho stand before the sp special cal con congressional committee today Mr McMurray described his contract as a plain business deal deal Mr McMurray said sid his relations with the Indians began in 1899 when he ho was was employed by the tho Choctaw and tho the Chickasaw IndIans to appear before the tho Dawes c commission This commission on was empowered to determine for tho the government who should bo ho admitted to tho the Indian tribes tibe There were many who claimed they were wrongfully kept off oR of the tho enrollment of the tribe and enrollment with i its ita claim on tho the government was estimated to be worth Mr McMurry McMurray was asked by Governor Gover- Gover nor Dou Douglass Johnston of the tho Chickasaws Chickasaws Chicka Chicka- saws to protect the tho interests of their tribe by keeping as many claimants as possible off of tho the rolls roUs This would prevent pro pre vent further division of the property or t In this way ultimately McMurray pro fosses fess to havo have kept claimants off of tho the rolls roUse Estimating that that these thes claimants claimants claim claim- ants each would have havo reduced tho the tribal property it was hold held McMurray's McMurry's firm got n it I fee These details wore testified to t by before taking up the present present contracts |