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MRS,PANKHURST
DECISION DELAYED
Immigration Chief is Hearing
Suttragette's Appeal
SHE WAS ORDERED OEPORTE6
Admission to This Country of EngIist
Militant Hinges on Question OF
"Moral Turpitude."

Washington, Oct. 20. - Despite an
ticipations of an immediate decision
on the appeal of Mrs Emmeline Pank-
hurst, the English militant suffragette,
from the decree of deportation passed
by a special board of inquiry at Ellis
Island, New York, Commissioner OF
immigration Caminetti continued the
case after a partial hearing.
Mrs. Pankhurst, who arrived in New
York on Saturday for lecture tour.
was ordered deported by the immigra-
/ ton authorities within little less
than three hours after the vessel upon
which she came had docked. The spe-
cial board of inquiry which decided
her case voted not to admit her to the
country under bond, but to send her
| back to France forthwith.
In the case the commissioner gem
eral sustains the ruling of the special
board. Mrs. Pankhurst will have g.
further hearing before Acting Secres
tary of Labor Post. If his decisions
also should be against her, her sole
hope will be in habeas corpus proceed3
ings in New York.
Argument before Commissioners
Caminetti, at which Mrs. Pankhursti
was represented by two attorneys.
hinged on the question of moral turss
pitude."
During the hearing Commissioners
Caminetti declared that the departSa
ment, in considering the case would
take no cognizance of any newspapef
clippings. 1t developed in this connneoa8
ton that the commissioner had receivx'
ed from the United States consul geEis
eral in London a communication to-
which were attached several clippings!
from the London Times of last April.
Commissioner Caminetti objected ted
the use of the word prisoner" as ap
piled to Mrs. PankhuDst by Attorneyi
O'Neal, one of the two appearing tori
her. He declared that persons seeking
>entry into this country were not he1of
prisoners
The commissioner announced at th6l
hearing that the attorney need subm1&
no argument in regard to the nru4
three convictions of Mrs. Pankhurst3
dI WulCu tlluS SuS Wdo hO10 AoA AAS04
fering with police regulations. The
involved the attempt of the suffra6ete
to present a petition to the house ri
commons and the riot at TrafalE&
Square.
Z. Practically the entire. argn1
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whether or not the English nlLI3 :
had been guilty of such an ofteH6
The last two of her five convictions
were for conspiracy, in connection
with her public speeches, the last II
dictment being returned in the Ent-
lish courts last March, and to which
she pleaded not guilty. This charge.
implicated her in the attempt. to blow
up the new house of Lloyd George.
Just what moral turpitude means
is open to debate" said Attorney Her
bert Reeves, in his argument before
the commissioner general. "My under.
standing of the word in a. legal sense
is that it is a crime committed with
criminal intent Such an intent has,
never been charged against Mrs. Pank-
hurst.
There has never been any question
as to her good faith. She Is admittedly
working for what she believes to be
the betterment of her sex and the race.
and from any standpoint her hands
are morally clean"
The statement that Mrs Pankhurst
made after her hearing before the spe-
cial board in New York, that her
questioners had papers that led her to
believe her political opponents" had
taken a hand in the disbarment pro-
ceedings was explained when Commits
sioner General Caminetti turned over
to Attorneys Reeves and O'Neail
communication from the United States
consul general at London, to which
were attached several clippings from
the London Times of last April.