Of course when our Government received that territory from Russia by treaty we were obliged to take care of the welfare of its inhabitants. It was not deemed necessary to put into a treaty made with the great Republic of the United States. so religious. with its people so educated. with its loud boasts in favor of the general and universal education of its people. a requirement that the Government of the United States should give some means of continuing the education of those people which the Russian Government had provided for. Thse several thousand Aleuts live in hamlets scattered along these islands for 2.000 miles. stretching from the neighborhood of Sitka far out through eighteen or nineteen degres of longitude almost over to the Asiatic coast. They have been left there to be educated by their own people in their own little hanlets. by their priests of the Greek Church as they were before. Now we are asked to extend to those people the common advantages for illiteracy that we do to the people of other portions of the United States.