Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-07
F FRICTION LIKELY
To RESULT OVER
MAYOR s ADVENT
Conflict Between Depart
ments of State and Labor
ForeShadoWed With the
Arrival Of 0'Callaghan.
(By The Associated Press,


Washington, Jan. 6.-Conflict
between the departments of state
and labor was foreshadowed over
final decision as to the admission
of Daniel j. O'Callaghan, lord may
or of Cork, apprehended by immi-
grafton authorities on his arriva
at Newport News from Ireland, as
a stowaway without a passport.
Action OF Secretary Wilson today
in paroling O'Callaghan on his own
recognizance, it was indicated had
been taken without consultation
with the state department, as the
first knowledge of it was obtained
by Acting Secretary of State Davis
from newspaper reports. Even
should O'Callaghan be deported, il
was held at the state department
that before it could be brought
about there would be nothing to
prevent his coming here and ac-
comprising his announced inten-
ton of testifying before the com
mission of the Committee of One
Hundred investigating Irish Condi-
ditions.
Secretary Wilson Friendly.
Secretary Wilson, it is under
stood, has virtually decided to sus-
tain the appeal of O'Callaghan to
the department of labor from the
decision of the board of inquiry at
Newport News excluding the lord
mayor, although the case has not
been brought formally to his atten-
ton, and no decision will be an
nounced by him until the record
ton officials.
Before taking action on O'Cal-
laghan's appeal, however, it would
be the usual custom of the depart
ment of labor to defer a decision
until it had been ascertained
whether the department of state
was willing to waive passport re-
strictions commonly imposed on
the entrance of aliens.
Friction Is Reported.
Because of the friction said 10
have developed between the de-
partment of state and labor over
the admissibility of aliens without
passports, it was understood that
Secretary Wilson probably would
sustain the appeal of O'Callaghan
without any reference to the de-
partment Of state.
Acting on the impression that
the case had already been referred
to the state department, Secretary
Davis today took it under advise
ment and indicated that the policy
of the department probably would
be against giving passport restrtc-
lions in OCallaghan's favor. Sec
rotary Davis said the lord mayor
could scarcely be considered a po-
litical refugee wen a fellow Off
cial of the so-called Irish govern
ment, Eamonn de Valera, was re-
ported to have returned to Ireland.
and he stated further that to waive
passport restrictions would serve
only to nullify the passport law.
LabHing Under Error.
Later, Secretary Davis an
nounced that in considering the
case, he had been laboring under
q misrepresentation that it had for
mally been referred to the state
department, but as it had not been,
the department would not consider
it technically had come under its
jurisdiction until the question had
been presented by Secretary Will
son.
Difficulty between the two de-
partments over the admission of
aliens Is said to date back to the
case of Alfred Nagel, Letvian sec
rotary, whose admission to the
United States even temporarily
was held up for a long period by
the state department, upon what
the department of labor charged
were grounds which might only
properly have been sustained by
Secretary Wilson. Since then
numerous aliens unprovided with
passports have been admitted by
the immigration authorities with
out the customary reference to the
state department.