New-York tribune., 1921-01-07
Clash F0reseen
In Paroling of
Mayor of Cork
Secretary Wilson Releases
O'Callaghan, Taken as
Stowaway, Without Con
sulting State Department
Davis Has No Recourse
Assistant Secretary Had In
dicated He Would Not
Waive Passport Statute

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Conflict be-
tween the Department of State and
Labor was foreshadowed to-day over
final decision as to the admission of
Daniel J. O'Callaghan, Lord Mayor of
Cork, who was apprehended by immi
grafton authorities upon his arrival at
Newport News from Ireland as a stow
away, without a passport.
Action of Secretary Wilson to-day in
paroing 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 department
from newspaper reports. Even should
O'Callaghan now be deported it was
held at the State Department that be-
fore that could be brought about there
would be nothing to preven: mis- COM
ing to Washington and accomplishing
his announced mission to the United
States of testifying before the commits
sion of the Committee of One Hundred
investigating Irish conditions.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, it is un-
derstood, has virtually decided to sus-
tain the appeal of O'Callaghan to the
Department of Labor from the deci-
sion OF the board of inquiry at New
port News excluding the Lord Mayor
although 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.
Department Usually Consulted
Before taking action on O'Calla-
shans 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 a pass
port, to defer a decision until it had
been ascertaned whether the Depart
ment of State was willing to waive
passport restrictions commonly I'M
posed upon the entrance to the United
States of aliens.
On account of the friction which is
said to have developed between the De-
tartments of State and Labor over the
admissibility of aliens without pass
ports, it was understood to-day that
Secretary Wilson probably would sus-
tain the appeal Of O'Callaghan without
any reference of the case to the De-
partment of State.
Acting on the impression that the
case already had been referred to the
State Department, Secretary Davis to-
DAY took it under advisement and indi-
Gated that the policy Of the department
probably would be against waving
passport restrictions in O'Callaghan's
favor Secretary Davis said the Lord
( Mayor scarcely could be considered \
political refugee, when a fellow Of
fcia Of the so-called Irish gov
crnmcnt, Eamon de Valera, was report
ed to have returned to Ireland, and he
stated further that to waive passport
restrictions in the case would serve
only to nullify the passport law.
No Formal Reference Made
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 as it had not BEEN
the former department would not con-
slider that it technically had come
under its jurisdiction until the ques-
ton had been presented to it by Sec
retary Wilson.
Coming to New York
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Jan. 6.-Upon
news of his parole being received
Daniel O'Callaghan, who had been in
CUSTODY of the ipraticn authorities