
186 U.S. 168 (1902)
LEE LUNG
v.
PATTERSON.
No. 189.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued and submitted April 21, 1902.
Decided May 19, 1902.
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON.
Mr. John H. Mitchell for appellant.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Hoyt for appellee submitted on his brief.
MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment which dismissed a petition in habeas corpus on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to grant the relief which was prayed. The petitioner *169 represented that he was a citizen of the Chinese Empire, and for more than twenty years last past a merchant in the city of Portland, Oregon. He went on a visit to China, but returned to the United States in the monthof October, 1898, on the ship Monmouthshire, accompanied, as he claimed, by his wife, whose name is Li Tom Shi, and by his daughter, whose name is Li A. Tsoi. The collector of customs at Portland promptly permitted him to land, recognizing his right to do so as a merchant, but denied the right and refused to permit his wife and daughter to land, although they were not laborers, and presented "certificates issued by the government of Hong Kong, and vised by the consular representative of the United States at the colony of Hong Kong, China," which identified them as the wife and daughter respectively of petitioner, were "in all respects in full compliance with article III of the treaty of 1894, and in all respects in full