Nagle

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of two Chinese applicants for admission to the United States. It is coneeded that the alleged fathers of the two appellants are citizens, so that the only question at issue is one of relationship. The witnesses appearing before the board of special inquiry were the alleged grandfather of one of the appellants, who is also the alleged father of the other appellant; the alleged brother of one of the appellants, who is also the alleged father of the other appellant; the two appellants themselves; and a fifth witness, to whose testimony no particular importance is attached. The several witnesses were examined in great detail as to matters of family history, relatives, persons, and places, and it must be conceded that the relationship was fully established, unless the department was justified in disregarding the testimony and in excluding the appellants because of certain discrepancies in the testimony, to which we will now direct our attention.

The alleged grandfather testified that one of his sons, Wong Sing Ngip, came to the *227 United States in 1912; that he left San Francisco about a year…