Four dollars. and under the new law it will be $5. Now. the committee believed that the European immigrant is not specifically charged with this head tax. and. moreover. it Is impossible to ascertain how much in reality the European immigrant pays for head tax. inasmuch as he pays no greater steamship fare than the returning citizen of the United States. We felt that the immigrant coming by sea direct from Europe stands upon a different footing from the immigrant coming by rail. We therefore accepted the suggestion of the department and confined this new provision for iepayment to those who had specifically paid their $4 extra in addition to their railroad fa re.
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