Show exactions of sultan ot jolo cause friction an issue has been presented to the war department growing out of the exactions by the sultan of jolo of a tax upon pearl fisheries in the waters of the southern archipelago these taxes are compared with the value of the fisheries and have been paid to the sultan for many years past up to this time they have never been questioned but now certain foreign corporations which have brought to the pearl fish enes improved apparatus and methods claim that they are exempt from this sort of taxation under the treaty 1865 between spain on the one side and england germany and france on the other whereby spain guarantees to other powers the freedom of the fish enes in those waters |