It has not been submitted to the committee. My purpose in offering the amendment is to get rid of an abuse that exists in that country which ought not to be allowed to exist longer. As is well known to members of the Senate. there are a number of taxes collected by those tribes on noncitizens for the privilege of living in the Territory. and persons employing noncitizens are required to pay a tax of 50 cents a month. or some such sum. Complaints are numerous that the amounts paid into the Treasury are very much less than the amounts that ought to be collected. There are constant complaints coming up that where the taxes on merchants. which are ccnsiderable in the different tribes. ought to amount to several thousand dollars a year. an insignificant sum. amounting to only a few hundred dollars. is collected and paid in.
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