Box].. who is a member of this committee. will contend that instead of the number of nonemigrant aliens who annually come into this country being 68.785 as claimed by the gentleman from Ohio that the correct number is 172.406. as shown by the department report. and at the $10 each would aggregate the sum of $1.724.060 that goes as revenue each year into the Public Treasury. and which sum. if we pass this bill. will have to be replaced through taxes levied upon all of the people of the United States. But our colleague [Mr. Box] will also contend that these nonemigrant aliens each pay $18 to our Government. instead of the $10. or. in other words. that they pay a head tax of $8 besides the $10 vise fee. and if he is correct in his position. the revenue amounts each year to $3.103.308 that is derived from this source that goes into the Treasury. and if we pass this bill. if he is correct. we would have to tax the whole people of the United States additionally to raise this sum of $3.103.308 to replace the revenue that this law will stop. Now. what benefit to the people will be derived by the passage of this legislation? Will it in any way benefit the whole people?
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