Ex parte Kato

NETERER, District Judge.

Gin Kato, a subject of Japan, claims to have been in the United States since 1884, and to have a wife living in Japan. He was order deported for having been “found in the United States in violation of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, to wit, that he has been found employed by, in, or in connection with a house of prostitution.”

It is contended that the five-year limitation provided by section 19 of the act, supra, applies, and that he cannot be legally deported, and further that to deport him is a violation of the treaty stipulations between Japan and the United…