The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-29
POWERS LOOKING
AF TER REVENUES
Trying to Fix Up Scheme to
Provide Sultan With
Funds.
WOULD PUT HIM In THE
HUM0R TO COOPERATE
Part of Plan to Limit Foreign
Protection and Tax
Land.

ALGEzIRAS Spain. Jan. 2s-The pie
nipotcntiaries OF the powers resumed
their sessions today and spent 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 1t. The Sultan is always In 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 luxures. of which
he Is fond and which are a scandal to
his pious subjects.
Try to Get at "Immunes."
The Moroccan conference seems dis
posed also to reduce the number of So
called protected persons who escape
taxation because they are foreigners or
I'm partnership with foreigners.
You have only left me the poor 10
tax said the Sultan 10 the Foreign Min
ister at Fee, when the subject was dis
cussed there some time ago. You have
taken the rich men out or my reach"
Can't Find Landlords.
Part OF the plan under consideration to-
Introduce land taxes. II was proposed in
committee TO tax landlords.
No" said Sidi Mohammed Ell Mokhri.
the second of the Moroccan delegates TO
the conference. Tax the tenants We
can never find the landlords The occu-
pants Of the houses always Say they are
tenants
M. Revolt, chief of the French mission,
who formerly was Governor OF Algiers
and who, therefore. is familiar with
North African conditions. remarked.
Would Tax Both.
Tax them both then you will catch
one Of them"
one perplexlty Is the status of the
throughout the Bar5ary states as the
descendant OF the Indrcssi family and St
Zharon family and is very rich and is
also a large land owner In Algeria. His
influence is religious rather than politi-
cal Tho failure OF the Ministers at Fee
to agree on new taxation scheme was
due TO the objection Of the French Min
lister TO tax the Shereef OF WaZzan. The
other Ministers said that If the richest
family was to be protected by one pow
er they would not give up protecting
those who were less rich
Sultan Needs Money
The Sultan, in addition to other rea-
sons for reforming the Moroccan system
OF taxation, must have more money with
which TO pay the semi-military establish
menJ which the powers wish to form
An odd experience of the Spanish cruis-
er Infanta Isabel, which Is patrolling the
of arms, was reported TO tho conference
by her commander. who returned here
Tuesday.
Mysterious Flag Incident.
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 It, A
boat manned by Moors and displaying the
French flag put of from the shore, pulled
alongside the cruiser and handed TO the
captain OF the Isabel. which the Moors
evidently had mistaken for French ves-
sell a message from Roghi inviting her
commander to come ashore and place
himself al tho latter's disposition.
The commander of the Spanish cruiser,
as he was without the right to search
foreign vessels, did not attempt to inter
ferc. but put back to Ageziras In order
to advise the Spanish delegates OF the
mysterious flag incident
Some Return to Tangier.
Adviccs received here from Tangier by
the delegates TO the conference are TO
the effect that serious disorders have
been renewed between RaiSuli the bandit
chief and the AnJera trlbesmen. One OF
the AnJera chiefs was killed and others
of them, with large followngs. are unit
ing for the purpose OF aggressive strug-
gle with Raisuli Some of the Moroccan
specialists attending the conference has
THY returned to 1angier. II is believed
here that an encounter between the two
elements is imminent.