Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-20

new ! Ork, OCT. ZV.-MrS. RdnhnuTSL
left Ellis Island and came to New
York shortly after l o'clock today.
She was driven to Mrs. o. H. P. Bel
mont's home. The mass meeting at
Madison Square garden she was to
have addressed tonight has been post
poned until Wednesday to give Mrs.
Pankhurst a rest.
Washington, D. c., Oct. 2e.-Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, militant Brit
ish suffragette is free to enter the
United States. The immigration COM
mittee's order of deportation was re-
versed today after President Wilson
had conferred on the case with Sec
retary Wilson and a hearing had been
concluded before immigration Com
missioner Caminetti.
Secretary Wilson announced that
Mrs. Pankhurst would be admitted up
on her own recognizance with the un-
derstanding she would depart at the
end of her lecture engagements. No
bold was eXacted.
There was no demonstration at the
immigration bureau when the decis-
iC1 was announced The audience of
women which had sat through the
hearing had departed. Caminettis de
cision was strict, according to the
views of the president and Secretary
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When arguments were resumed be-
fore Commissioner Caminetti Attorney
Reeves presented a long brief review
ing the facts and cOntended the acts
for which Mrs. Pankhurst was con-
victed in England were purely polit-
/ ical offenses and did not involve moral
turpitude, the real question at issue.
MORE DECISIONS CITED.
The argument was lCng and techni-
cal and cited decisions in many immi-
grafton cases and some of the works
/ of John Bassett Moore, acting secre-
tary of state, and an authority on in
ternational law. Continuing, he said:
The mere delivery of lectures and
speeches urging women to strive for
what they believed % be legal political
rights is certainly an act intended to
/ forward and help political rights, and
the cause for such act therefore must
! be deemed, if an offense at all, polit-
! ical offence. Nor can it be successful
! ~ ascertained that the mere urging Of
/ hearers TO destroy property, if necess-
AIRY to bring about desired result, is
an act involving moral turpitude."
Reeves declared his client had en-
gagged to sail for England Nov. p, and
cited that it was evident that she did
not intend to remain in the United
States.
President Wilson's interest in the
case was viewed with the greatest
satisfaction at the headquarters of
the National Suffrage association and
suffrage supporters in congress.
Attorney Frank O'Neil, who followed
Reeves, said: Mrs Pankhurst made
a pledge TO the American people that
sh1 would conduct herself lawfully
while in this country, and she will
keep IT, In every shop and factory
in this land today, women's heads are
bowed in mute appeal to this depart
ment for the liberty of this distin-
guished woman"
PAPER CLIPPINGS BARRED.
Copies of clippings from London
newspapers on the activities and ar
rests OF Mrs. Pankhurst we're exclud-
ed from the record, and the hearing
closed with Caminetti's announce
ment that he would give a decision lat
er today.
President Wilson in talking to
White house correspondents. indicated
that the question was more one of pub
lie policy than OF academic law, but he
gave no indication of the outcome.
/ Secretary Of Labor Wilson went into
conference with the president after
the close OF the hearing in Caminettfs
Office, and some decision was expected
at the end Of the talk.
ACTS STILL DOUBTFUL.
! Secretary Wilson declared he and
the president had discussed the cues.
tion briefly. We agreed" he said,
:that Mrs Pankhurst should be ad
mitted on her own recognizanee. Ny
own reason Is, and the president feels
likewise, that there is naturally an
element Of doubt whether her acts
constituted moral turpitude or were
political in character. Being admitted
on her own recognizance, of course
IL she violates our law We have two
remedies. Our courts may pass on heI
; acts or We may deport her" The de
( eision of Secretary Wilson and the
; president was communicated to Com
J missioner Csminetti. who issued the
formal order TO release her.