Show f Sizeable Legal Fees Pees 1 One million dollars for a fee feel ee Thai I J sounds Bounds like a big amount and yet an Assertion was made shortly after the supreme court made Its decision which compelled tb the general government to to tc Pay for the removal of the th the Ch Cherokee Indians to Indian to-Indian Indian Territory that one-fourth one of that amount was tc be paid as a fee It would woul l not be bt i s strange remarks the Che hE- hE Washington Star If If the report t t was correct When W en wt we i remember the large fees that have i i teen been paid in Indian cases there is a f natural Inference that nothing is im r t J pos possible ible in t the e way of fee fees feeg when claims f against the government are Involved i J c Contracts ba have e been made in India India- t Y 1 cases which meant that when the laws i c were enacted and the money paid that 1 f enormous enormous' fees were ere to be given the its tf 1 attorneys The case of the Methodist Jl i church south Is too vivid In the minds 4 t of ot men in Washington not to be re recalled re- re 4 r c called lIed when other big fees are discussed dis cussed cussed Here was a case where more than third one-third of the whole amount Col col collected I l L was paid to the attorney the fee t being more mor than There Ther have been cases known where fees of of at 4 i I and perhaps larger in Indian H claims cases were paid Nowhere hal hag the shrewd attorney fared Jared so well well as aE f tt It in the Indian claims Sometimes there r v has been legislation seeking to protect r the Indians providing and providing that nc nc t t more more than ten per cent of the claim l 11 shall be paid to the attorney But 1 long before the legislation passed contracts con can con con- tracts were made which J gave the atI attorneys attorneys at at- I these enormous fees I. I |