Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-11
ROW GROWS HOTTER
over QUESTION CORK
/ MAYORS ENTRY U.S..

Washington. Jan. 10-Passport re-
strictions will not be waived by the
State department to permit entrance
to the United States of Daniel j.
O'Cailaghan, lord mayor of Cork,
who on his arrival last week at New
port News as a stowaway, and with
out a passport, was temporarily ad-
mitted op parole by order of the
Labor department.
The State departments decision.
announced today by Acting Secre-
tary Davis. brought forth the asser-
ton by Labor department officials
that jurisdiction in the case still
rested exclusively with the secretary
of Labor This indicated a continue
ton of the controversy between the
two departments which has been
more or less apparent ever since the
I landing of the Cork lord mayor on
American soil.
Secretary Davis in making his an
nouncement, said that he concurred
in the opinion of the solicitor of his
department, as forwarded to him
today, that there was no reason to
make an exception in the case of
O'Callaghan as regards admission
without a passport He said he was
communicating his decision to Sec
rotary of Labor Wilson and added
the intimation that his department
acting under the wartime powers
given the president to regulate the
entry of aliens might recommend
that the department of Justice be
called upon to deport the Irish
mayor.
Labor department officials asserted
that Secretary Wilson did not recog-
niz, that the case Of O'Callaghan had
yet come within Jurisdiction of the
State department, inasmuch as he
had not formally referred it to Sec
rotary Davis. Secretary Wilson had
not begun his consideration of the
case today and it was said that he
would not take it under advisement
until it had come to him through the
regular channels of the department.
At the State department is was
said that the delay of the secretary
Of labor in rendering a decision after
having paroled O'Callaghan would
permit the lord mayor to accomplish
his mission of testifying before the
commission from the Committee OF
One Hundred investigating the Irish
question regardless of whether he
may be eventually deported.
Officials of the Labor department
declared that should the secretary OF
labor find O'Callaghan inadmissable
to the United States on immigration
grounds. it would not be necessary
for the secretary to refer the waivine
of passport restrictions to the State
department. Should the secretary
find the lord MAYOR admissible, how
ever. he would then be called upon tC
decide whether the exclusion OF
O'Callaghan from the United States
for having entered without a pass
port was question to be passed up
on by the State department.
While the State department first
took the position that O'Callaghan's
case has been brought before the de
partment by the action of an immi
grafton inspector in Norfolk in re-
questing advice direct from the de-
partment, Secretary Davis later stat
ed that he had amended this decision
and would not take the case under
advisement until it had been brought
to his attention formally for the sec
rotary of labor. When Secretary Da-
Wis learned that Secretary Wilson
was not disposed to consult the State
department at all, and that he haG
paroled O'Callaghan without consul.
tation with the department, he agar
amended his decision and asked fol-
an opinion from the solicitor as t.
whether the lord mayor was deport.
able by the State department,