CONGRESSMAN WORKING TO EXILE RUSSELL

Deportation proceedings may possibly be opened against Bentrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, according to a telegram sent from Washington, D.C. last night by Massachusetts Congressman John W. McCormick to Thomas Dorgan, legislative agent for the City of Boston.

McCormick, a ranking member of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, was first approached on the subject by Dorgan, who wrote him a letter suggesting that an investigation be instituted by immigration authorities and demanding that Russell, "who has admitted his moral turpitude," be deported from this country. Russell is not a citizen of the United States.

McCormick Promises Action

The Congressman, a Representative of the 12th Congressional District of Massachusetts, sent word to Dorgan by telegram yesterday stating that he "would get to work on the matter at once." No indication was made as to the legal attitude surrounding the question of deportation.

In the meantime, according to Dorgan, the legal coures of action in his court fight to prevent Russell from lecturing at the University is rapidly being mapped out. The "four lawyers" working on the case are still not sure of their exact plan of attack, but according to Dorgan Harvard's right to "academic freedom" will not be challenged."

Illegal Contract

He rests his stand on the assertion that the Massachusetts Constitution and General Laws are being violated by the Russell contract. Citing a decision handed down by the eminent Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts in the case of Sherman v. Inhabitants of Charlestown in which a 17 year old girl was barred from the public schools because of her moral background, Dorgan points out that the case is not only applicable to teachers as well as to students but that it also applies to Harvard as well as to the public schools.