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I wish to say for the benefit of the Senator from California that there are no differences existing today between this commission and the Bureau of Immigration. From the time the commission was organized and began its work it has been its purpose and it has been its action to aid the Bureau of Immigration in carrying on its work. and every investigation which it has made it has made for the benefit of the bureau. but by officers outside of the force that administers the law. I desire to say for the benefit of the Senator from California that the work done by the commission insouthern California was turned over to the department. and the Bureau of Immigration took it up and of its own motion made every discharge of officials that has been made in California. Before those discharges were made the number of Chinese coming over the border was very large. and since those discharges were made the number coming in has been very small indeed. The commission did not do that. the department did it.