We are paying to each of those commissioners. not Members of Congress. $7.500 a year. the same amount of pay that is received by a Senator of the United States. and yet these commissioners are devoting their time to the work at which they were engaged before they received this appointment. It seems to me that when we are considering the expenses of the Government. it is a proper time to look at the expense of this commission. whose work. as has been said by a commissioner here. will cost half a million dollars. when we also make provision for the Department of Commerce and Labor. which does the same work :s the commission. Either this commission should be abolished or the Bureau of Immigration in the Department of Commerce and Labor. Duplicate work is being done at great expense to the Government. and there is a conflict between these two departmentsthis commission and the Department of Commerce and Labor. In addition to this. I do not agree with the statement made by the Senator from Vermont that the commission has accomplished anything. as far as the work is concerned on the Pacific coast. in the matter of Chinese smuggling into the United States. As a matter of fact. if Chinese have been smuggled into this country. then there have been a great many incompetent officials in the immigration department of the Government. not only here. but on the Pacific coast.
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