Show adaila july 29 A correspondent of the vee sith the senate committee in alaska tends a letter from juneau under date of jane reviewing the inquiries of the committee these were comme at bort chester alaska where there aro 1200 indians under charge of sir dincan missionary who has been among the tribe thirty tears alio indians were found to be living in an apparent state of contentment and engaged in almost all the pursuits pur of the whites their grievance is a desire to possess lands in severally or to have certain parcels set apart to them that they may cultivate and leold id rights they want gravlun island riven to their the committee found the state of morals of women of this tribe as far above the average in other parts of the territory at sitka as vi ell as other points visited so far the committee failed to find a single case where an indian woman or girl had been forcibly taken froin her friends tor unmoral purposes aa alleged in the united states some almo ago they have homeier ho weier learned that the standard of morals among women 04 a rule is not very hapli at a meeting in the town half some individual complaints were made by the indians aa to bad treatment from whites but nothing serious the committee later listened to the arguments of i body of citizens urging the extension of the homestead land law a to lie government alie question of territorial government was also discussed aa a much want |