In re Lee Yee Sing

HANFORD, District Judge.

The petitioner is a Chinese merchant, residing and carrying on the business of a merchant at Lewis-ton, Idaho. By his petition he alleges that his son, 15 years of age, is unlawfully detained and imprisoned at Tacoma by the collector of customs. By the return to the writ of habeas corpus, it is shown that the boy came to Tacoma from China, in which country he was born, and upon his arrival the collector, after examination, decided that he was a Chinese person not entitled to enter the United States, and said decision has not been reversed on appeal by the secretary of…