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Anna Karenina

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 bf 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. Now Alexey Alexandrovitch intended
to demand: First, that a new commission should be formed
which should be empowered to investigate the condition
of the native tribes on the spot; secondly, if it should
appear that the condition of the native tribes actually was
such as it appeared to be from the official documents in
the hands of the committee, that another new scientific
commission should be appointed to investigate the
deplorable condition of the native tribes from the—(1)
political, (2) administrative, (3) economic, (4)
ethnographical, (5) material, and (6) religious points of
view; thirdly, that evidence should be required from the

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