The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-07
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Secretary of Labor Paroles 0'Callaghan Without Con- suIting Department, De-
 laying Deportation
By Associated Press

Washington, January 6.-Conflics between the departments of state and labor was foreshadowed today over Daniel J. O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, who was apprehend ed by inn migration authorities upon his arrival at Newport News from Ireland as stowaway without a passport.
 Action of Secretary Wilson today in paroling O'Callaghan upon his own recognizance, it was indicated, had been taken without consultation with the state department, as the first knowledge of it was obtained by Act ing Secretary Davis of that depart ment from newspaper men,. Should buckingham now be deported it was held at the state department that be- fore that could be brought about there would be nothing to prevent his coming to Washington and accomplish ling his announced mission to the United States of testifying before the commission of the committeesof 100 in- yestigating Irish conditions.
 TO. SUSTAIN APPEAL
 Secretary Of Labor Wilson, 1t Is un- derstood, has virtually decided to sus- tain the appeal of OCaliaghan to the department of labor from the decision of the board of inquiry at Newport News excluding the lord mayor all though the case has not yet been brought formally to his attention and no decision will be announced by him until the record has been received from immigration officials at Newport News
 Before. taking. action. on. O'Cal- laghan's appeal, however, it would be the usual custom of the department of labor in the case of an alien arriving in the United States without pass port to defer decision until it had been ascertained whether the depart ment of, state was willing to waive passport restrictions commonly inn posed upon the entrance to the United States af aliens.
 On account of the friction which is said to have developed between the departments of state and labor over the admissibility of aliens without passports. it was understood today that Secretary Wilson probably would sustain the appeal of OCallaghan without any reference of the case to the department of state.
 NOT TO WAIVE RESTRICTIONS
 Acting on the impression that the case already had been referred to the state department, Secretary Davis took it under advisement and indicated that the policy of the department probably would be against waiving passport -s strictions in OCallaghants favor.
 Secretary Davis said the lord mayor could scarcely be considered a DO. litical refugee when fellow official of the so-cAled Irish government Eamonn de Valera, was reported ts have returned to Ireland and he stated further that to waive passport restric- tions in the case would serve only to nullify the passport law.
 Later. Secretary Davis announced that in considering the case he had been laboring under misapprehension that it had formally been referred to the state department by the depart ment of labor, but if it had not been the former department would not con- slider that it technically had come un- der it's jurisdiction until the question had been presented to 1t by Secretary Wilson.
 Difficulty between the two depart ments over the admission of aliens to the United States is said to date back to the case of Alfred Nagel, Latyian secretary, whose admission to the United States even temporarily was held up for long period by the state department upon what the department of labor charged were grounds which might only properly have been sus. tained by Secretary Wilson. Since then numerous aliens unprovided with pass rests have been admitted to the United States by the immigration authorities without the customary reference of their cas- to the state department