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Show would bring a higher prlco If sold to a corporation rather than If It were split up and sold to many Individuals Put be said he never had heard of any syndicate that Etood ready to pay $30,000,000 for tho land as Sena-lor Sena-lor Oore had charged, Tho surface of the lands, which aggregate more than 12,500 acres the witness thought, might be sold separately to small holdere. ;' SENATOR 0HEITC Ml HEARING SULPHUR, Okla. Aug. 22. The name of Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma entered Into the Indlau laud Investigation today. 13. P. Hill, an attorney for the Choctaw nation testified before tho special congressional committee that Is investigating the Gore bribery charges that Senator Owen i3 the principal in a suit in which are involved in-volved contracts with the Indiana calling for n 50-per cent fee. Mr. Owen, however, testified Attorney At-torney Hill entered into the contracts with the Indians some years boforo he became senator and Is now trying to secure f.0 per cout, but has left It to the United States court of claims to determine how much he should be paid. It was also said that since his election as senator, Mr. Owen had shown no activity In the matter except to testify in behalf of his claim. The value of the properly, which It was asserted, in Mr. Owen's suit, wa3 restored to the Indian, is fixed by the department of justice at from $12,000,000 to $14,000,000. As attorney attor-ney for the Choctaws, Mr. Hill said be was resisting the suit. Senator Owen based his claim, it was said, on legal service he alleged he had rendered at Washington and in Oklahoma prior to his election to the senate. Most of today's hearing was taken up with the cross examination of J. V. McMurray, holder of the contracts by wbelcta he seeks to obtain a 10 per cent attorney's feo on the sale of S30.000.u00 worth of Ind'au lands in this Htate. Mr.-. McMurray said that If the Indians got all I heir property was worth they would receive $30,- I 000,000 and his feo would bo 10 per I cent of that. Questioned as to his plans to dispose of the 450.000 acres of coal and asphalt land. McMurray said the coal deposits held by tho Indiana In this state amounted practically prac-tically to a monopoly in the territory west of the Mississippi, south of the Missouri, and east of tho Rocky I Mountains and he bellovd the Indians I were entitled to the value of tho coal as a monopoly, lio thought tho laud |