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The question of the Native Tribes had been brought up

incidentally in the Commission of the 2nd of June, and had been

pressed forward actively by Alexey Alexandrovitch as one

admitting of no delay on account of the deplorable condition of

the native tribes. In the commission this question had been a

ground of contention between several departments. The department

hostile to Alexey Alexandrovitch proved that the condition of the

native tribes was exceedingly flourishing, that the proposed

reconstruction might be the ruin of their prosperity, and that if

there were anything wrong, it arose mainly from the failure on

the part of Alexey Alexandrovitch's department to carry out the

measures prescribed by law.