Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-08
DAVIS ASKS LEGAL
ADVICE IN MOVE TO
BAR O'CALLAGHAN
Acting State Secretary
Calls On Counselor
for Opinion.
MAY CHARGE VIOLATION
OF PASSPORT STATUTE
--
Would Ask Justice Officials to
Institute Criminal Pro-
ceedings.
LBy Associated rressl


WASHINGTON.' Jan. 7-Dcinitc In
d.cations appeared tonigh; that the
State Department may take into it's
own hands, without regard TO the
Department Of Labor. the question
OF admitting to the United states
Donal ]. O'Callaghan, Lord Mayor
OF Cork. paroled by the Labor De-
partment after his arrival at New
port News as a stowaway.
Conflict between the two DEPART
mcnis. foreshadowed yesterday. was
brought into the open today and ac-'
centuated tonight, when il was
Learned that Acting Secretary Davis
Of the state Department. had called
upon the departments legal author
!,:cs for advice on the question of his
department taking the entire O'cal-
;aghan admission matter into its own
iia nds.
The state Department. IL has been
indicated. tavors deportation OF the
Lord Mayor. while the Department Of
Labor has been represented by those
close TO its higher officials as fla
vorins admission OF the Cork Of
fetal.
The case OF the Lord Mayor had
not been formally presented 10 the.
State Department tonieh, by the La
bor Department. but the solicitor OF
the former executive department was
known to be giving consideration al
so TO his departments power. in case
O'Callaghan is admitted by labor Of
fcials. TO ask the Department Of JUS
tice TO institute proceedings against
the Lord Mayor on the charge OF v!o-
latinS criminal statute by entering
the United States without pass
port.
Mentions Holland Statement.
Secretary Davis also indicated dur
ing the day that the state Depart
ment had Instituted an investigation
OF the reported statement of Harry
Boland, secretary to f.amonn de
Valera, president OF the Irish re-
public" that he TOO. had entered the
United States without passpor,
as stowaway.
Mr.. Davis said that the department,
in addition had taken note OF the
reported advocacy by Roland in Al
speech yesterday in New York OF "a
''itNNth bS but III every couN-
try, IL England persisted in the pur-
suit OF It's present course toward Ire
land.
There was question. the secre-
tary said. AS TO whether such q
declaration did not bring It's author
within scope of the immi igration ac;
OF 1916 providing deportation for
aliens advocating the use of force and
violence against the United States.
Consideration by the State De-
partmcnt of both the OCallaghan and
the Boland cases was understood to
have been precipitated today by the
denial made by Labor Department Of
ticials Of statement issued early in
the day by Assistant Secretary Merle
Smith. OF the State Department. that
Secretary of Labor Wilson had re-
ferred the OCallaghan case to his
department.
Labor Department officials in their
denial added that Secretary Wilson
had gone to Philadelphia for the
weekend and would not take up the
case until his return on Monday.
Labor Hcndx independent.
Labor Department officials. how
ever, said today that no decision
made by the State Department under
the apprehension that II had been re-
ferred to 1t would be accepted by
Secretary Wilson until he had taken
the question under adviscment.
Earlier In the day Smith told news
paper man at the State Department;
that the O'Callaghan case had been
referred by the Labor Department to
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