Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-28
TRY TO REGULATE
MOROCCAN TAXES
DELEGATES OF THE POWERS
UNDERTAKE TASK
Number Of so-CalIed "Protected" Per-
sons Probably viii Re Reduced.
RaissuIi Making More
Trouble
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ALGECIRAS, Spain, Jan. 27.-The
plenipotentiaries of the powers resumed
their sessions today and spent Il couple
Of hours going over the work Of the
committee on Moroccan revenues. The
powers have several important objects
In examining the Moorish system OF
taxes or rather lack Of system, and
trying to regulate it. The sultan is
always III need of money and Will be in
better humor to cooperate with the
powers In the work of reform If he is
supplied with more cash for foreign
luxuries, Of which he is fond and which
are a scandal to his pious subjects.
The Moroccan conferences seems dis
posed also to reduce the number of So
called protected" persons who escape
taxation because they are foreigners or
in partnership with foreigners.
you have only left me the poor to
tax" said the sultan to the foreign
minister at Fee when the subject was
discussed there some time ago you
have taken the rich men out Of my
reach"
Part Of the plan under consideration
today is to limit foreign protection and
to introduce land taxes. 1t was pro-
posed in committee to tax landlords.
NO" said Sadi Mohammed Eel
Mokhri, the second Of the Moroccan
delegates to the conference. TAX the
tenants. We can never find the land
lords. The occupants of houses always
say they are tenants"
NJ. Revolt, chief of the French mis-
sion who formerly was governor of
Algiers and who therefore Is familiar
with north African conditions, re-
marked; Tax them both; then you will
catch one of them"
/ One perplexity is the status Of the
sheereef Of Wazzan, who is revered
throughout the barbery states as the
descendant of the Indreesi family and
the st. Zharon family and Is very rich
and is also a large land owner in AL
geria. His influence is religious ather
than political. The failure ,of the min
listers at Fee to agree on a new taxa
ton scheme was due to the objection of
the French minister to tax the sheereef
of WaZzan. The other ministers said
that if the richest family was to be pro-
tected by one power they would not
give up protecting those who were less
rich.
The sultan, in addition to other rea-
sons for reforming the Moroccan sys-
TEN Of taxation, must have more money
with which to pay the semi-military
establishment which the powers wish
to form.
An odd experience of the Spanish
cruiser Infanta Isabel, which is patrol
ing the Moroccan coast to prevent the
smuggling Of arms, was reported to the
conference by her commander who re-
turned here Tuesday. While the cruiser
was close to the shore the flag Of Roghi
the sultan's formidable rebel subject
was observed flying from a staff with
the French flag under 1t. A boat
manned by Moors and displaying the
French flag put off from the shore
pulled alongside the cruiser and handed
to the captain of the Isabel, which the
Moors evidently had mistaken for a
French vessel, a message from Roghi
inviting her commander to come ashore
and place himself at the latter's dis
posal. The commander of the Spanish
cruiser, as he was without the right tc
search foreign vessels, did not attempt
to interfere but put back to Algeciras
in order to advise the Spanish delegates
Of the mysterious flag incident.
Advices received here from Tangie1
to the delegates to the conference are
to the effect that serious disorders have
been renewed between Raissuli. the
bandit chief, and the Anjo tribesmen
One Of the Anjoists was killed anc
others of them, with large followings
are uniting for the purpose of an ag-
gressive struggle with Raissuli. Some
of the Moroccan secretaries attendant
on the conference hastily returned tt
Tangier. 1t is believed here that al
encounter between the two elements i:
imminent.