Louise Savart. and Marie Cardonnel. There appears to be nothing on our files about the Pedro Garcia case. and my attention was never called to that case until the publication in the Sacramento Union of the article referred to. As to the two Calmels women. the records of the department show Ihat they had been ordered deported by the Secretary of Commerce and Lablor along wit]l their husbands and father. unon the ground that the women were employed In a house of prostitution. tye one as a chambermaid and the other as a housekeeper. and tie nen on the ground that they were " receiving. sharing in. and dcrivi..g benefits from the earnings of prostitutes." They instituted habeas corpus proceedings and brought their cases to the Supreme Court. Upon an examination of the cases. It being my duty to prepare them for argument in that court. I came to the conclusion that those against the men could not be sustained. because the records therein. including the records In the deportation proceedings before the Department of Commerce and Labor. failed to show that tlfe women were prostitutes. but. on the contrary. indicated that they were honest Women. living with their husbands. nor was there any suggestion that they had been prostitutes. before their arrival in this country. In view of this state of facts. I advised the Department of Commerce and Labor that the Secretary had exceeded his authority in ordering the deportation of the men. and that it would be advisable. in order to avoid an adverse decision by the Supreme Court. to revoke the orders of deportation In their cases. I also submitted for the consideration of the Department of Commerce and Labor whether. since the evidence indicated that the women were honest. although employed in a house of lprostitutlion. and therefore within the letter of the stalute. they came within the real purpose of the statute. and whether it would not be well to revoke the orders of deportation as to them also. In this view the Secretary of Commerce and Labor concurred. and for that reason set aside the orders of deportation as to all the Calmels family. whereupon the appellants dismissed their appeals. WILLIAM R. HARitR.
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