Mylius was an Englishman who had been convicted of an exceptionally slanderous criminal libel. involving the succession to the throne of Great Britain. Mylius was convicted not of lese majeste. not of treason. but of criminal libel. Our immigration authorities passed " judgment upon the laws and practices of a foreign Government" and decided against Mylius.- The .court reversed that decision. deciding that the offense of Mylius was political. I leave tile Mylius case and come to one more recent. A certain man named Sichinsky. was.- in 1908. convicted of the murder of the governor of Galicia. in Austria. Sichinsky was convicted of murder. not of treason or lese majeste. "Insidious murder". was the charge. In 1915 Sichinsky fled to this country. Our immigration authorities refused him admission because they held that the crime of murder involved moral turpitude. The question came to the Department of Labor. The Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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