Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — BIRD S. M’GUIRE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIRD S. M’GUIRE

Oklahoma Solon Who la Men* tioned in Land Graft Probe.

tor Gore at the Muskogee congressional inquiry into the Indian attorney fee matter, in which his name was used as one of those interested in the McMurrav contracts, emphatically denied having any connection with the matter w hatever. He gave the president, members of the cabinet and his fellow senators as witnesses to prove his assertion.

Senator Curtis sent a dispatch to Chairman Burke of South Dakota, of the board of inquiry, and Congressman Campbell, Kansas member of the hoard, in which he declared that the use of his name in connection with the contracts were without foundation and that he; would appear before the committee at any time and place desired.