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Show be able to deposit $75,000 Just a Bhort time after McMurray got his $750.0M) fee?" $7n,oo. Where did you get that 75.- (.100?" "I don't remember. ' w"s dealing in cattle unci mv account varied so I don't reniembor." " I be dcpo-IHeg of 7.'I'.hhi to your personal arrouul uroduccd mj little Ingres? (.m on voi r mlinl that you ! don't iem fiber? W'hev yo i became i chie.', or iM Vcrunr oi ' tr'be, isn't It a f 'c' lh: vivj; accmnt was only ." i to ? Ili-w vnuld you INDIAN CLIEF CAN'T REMEMBER SULPHUR. Okla.. Aug, 16. Douglas Doug-las .lobuson. a Chickasaw Indian and ch.ef of the S.OnO members of that tribe, answered, "I iln not remember" before the special congressional Investigation In-vestigation committee today when asked how It was that hf was able to deposit the $75,000 to his personal credit a few days after .1. F. McMurray McMur-ray had received $750,000 as attorneys attor-neys fees Johnson has testified that he always al-ways had approved of what are known as the present McMurray contracts con-tracts which provided for the sale of $30,000,000 worth of land belonging lo the Indiana and which world allow al-low McMurray 10 per cent or $3,(!nii,-000 $3,(!nii,-000 in fees. He also urged other Imliuns to sign thtiu. lie testified he was a particular friend of McMurray. He testified In what are known as the citizenship cases several ye-irs ago that he approved of a contract In which McMurray got a salary of $5,000 a year and $2,700 a year expenses. ex-penses. A short time afterwards he approved of another contract on which McMurray obtained for doing the same work a contingent fee of $730,000. The latter fee was to have been $l,5i",0n0 but was cut down one half by the government. . "Why was It you were willing to give McMurray $750,000 for' dotn that for which he alreadv was pala a salary?" asked Representative C. B. Miller of Minnesota. "Because we thought he earned it.' repl.'d Chief Johnson. "He kept off the rolls 3200 claimants claim-ants to orr property and thus saved us ."?5mo for each person so kept off or a total of $lC.oon;0O0. I would have Wen willing to have paid hlin o0 per rent or SS.niO.OOO. "You were will.ng to give a little :raft money in order to save that much land. Is that It? Now tell us why It is that a few days after tha' $750.00t) was paid to McMurray you were able to deposit to your personal account In n hank at nenlsnn, Txhh, |