Show SORE GOR KB ISSUES STATEMENT F Fl AN Z I i Investigators Unanimous in Opinion That There Way Was No Warrant for Any Person to 10 Use the Vice fice Presidents Name Dame I I fell foil in duty dut and in honor hound bound to make the tho following statement also in consideration of common Jus Justice justice justice tice toward the parties concerned Neither the tho name of ot Vico President Sherman nor Senator Curtis was men mentioned mentioned by men on the tho floor of the United States senate That the name of or either of ot these parties was W S alluded an to by h Mr Hamon was steadfastly withhold from rom the public until this Inv investigation estimation began Did Not Nol Mention Names Name Until Called Upon No public publio mention of oC their ther names name was WIlS eor evor made either directly or In Indirectly Indirectly directly In hy mo me until I was eras required and ml obliged to do so while aa as a witness under oath and nud detailing the conversation which occurred be bc between Mr r Hamon and ana 1 ioU golf I Ithen Ien Ithen then en made formal format protest against in their names but the com committee committee committee In the proper pursuit ursuH of Us its duties ulles required me to make a full lull anaver an aver without reservation Thor names were disclosed not with any view of inculpating them nor with any view of suggesting guilt but merely In order that the truth and the thc whole truth might bo ho related with reference to the details of the tho conver r In n question The public must reallY realize that tie D name namo of or any nn man miln man could bo be used or misused In the same tamo connection ether as an au argument or otherwise and no pubic 1 can have Immunity and protection ng such on an Injury t and injustice Impeached No Mans Integrity In my Hl last remarks in the senate I said sad tho the Integrity of oC no mon man can bo ho impeached upon tho the testimony of uC an or ot untrustworthy witness that was W 83 9 my conviction then than that Is IA Isray ismy ray my conviction now DO I nm am sure fiure that in the tho lh court of o public opinion no Judgment or verdict has h J neon icon H on returnee either cither against the vico president or Senator Curtis on account of the mh mis usg use of or their names The IB is 1 now non practically all ally completed Many witnesses have hao been examined a volume of evidence has been b cn adduced and there is If no tes testImony testimony tending ending t to establish any im Jm improper proper pro eJ connection on the pert patt of either official with the tho approval of or tho BO BOc called McMurray contracts tho public has had no reason to sus suspect us pert peet any such Improper connection yet ot t I would venture to suggest and if J I I may mar be pardoned would request that he the committee at the earliest practicable moment momon t make cake an nn author auth rl finding and statement to tho effect affect that no evidence has been benn pre pru tending to establish any im improper Improper proper conduct on thu part of either Continued on Page Pago Eight Bight 1 w iT Jf t GORE BRIBERY COMMITTEE I ISSUES A STATEMENT I I II I Continued from Crom Page One 1 Sherman or Senator I Curtis Curth respecting tlc the tl subject of this investigation Investigation Not Ended Tho committee announced that the Investigation had bind not boon been concluded McMurray lc lurra will continue his testimony on Monday Mon a Much of lurra tes tos testimony as I limon today toda related to Richard C C Cam CAdams j Adams am an attorney of Washington After President Tart Taft had hall permitted TO io iobe I Ibe be made public a letter in which w ho II expressed a belief that the Indian en I should not Hot be reopened and j I that only the I now on the should be allowed to participate In the tho I division of the lands had hadman I I many man of o the lie Indians send senti telegrams I Ito to Adams commending the presidents attitude and aDd Incidentally recommend recommending ing the McMurray contracts contracts Telegrams ns IS s Evidence These telegrams were afterwards turned over to the attorney general by b former Senator John M Thurston Thuraton counsel this Ie ng the Hie th sentiment of the In hi I liens Huns The said Mr lr Thurston I probably l was wag mistaken when be he le said the telegrams were Mc McMurray McMurray Ic Murray also stated It to be his belief teat Taft and the attorney general were not aware that Adams was In McMurray s employ II It was WaR also nhO brought out that lint when McMurray lc re received received I his fee In ui the citizen citizenship n I Iship ship cases a n claim for of o the I fee vas waa made malie by liy h M d 1 A Low an altor attorney coy ney ne of Topeka Kan Kali and W F Fails Ev Evans E EI ans ails an attorney of St SL Louis lollis I McMurray said ho he had talked tal ked to both hoth of these men concerning his I case but he be had not agreed ag ed to give them part of or hs lis fee Ceo and LIty th received no part hart McMurray denied he lie ever eyer had bad made any row loans to Representative I C CE E B Creager r of Oklahoma hut but ad that lint Creager had asked him for a II loan Good for the Red Man Before leaving lenIng Senator Gore SaIl said The investigation Is com coin completion I 1 am entirely c satisfied ll with Ith tho the result It will eventuate In final finni I good genii to tho the people of Oklahoma Olahoma both to the while white man and to the red man manTho I Tho Thu affairs of the Indian wll wal 1 be Ife bei i wound up and without charge or cost costI I to him Whatever sacrifice s may mn ma have been I on my part IJ Il I cheer uh A public official must discharge i his hlA hi duties at nt any cost and at any sac sacrifice sacrifice I am am content Whatever abuse n and calumny c may mar nave been hecim poured out on mo me Is IH but hut one of those things which must be expected by b a public official in the pursuit of his duty tr trI I |