the Indians can have access to them."

In response to a special application for authority to instruct a class
of theological students in the vernacular, at the Santee School, the
Commissioner says:

"There is no objection to your educating a limited number of
Indians in the vernacular, as missionaries, in some separate
building, entirely apart from the Santee School. This instruction
in the vernacular must be conducted entirely separate from the
English course, and must not interfere with English studies or be
considered part of the ordinary course for any other pupils of the
school than the limited number agreed upon, not to exceed thirty,
and all instruction in the vernacular must be conducted at no
expense to the Government."

Since writing the above, we have received from Commissioner Atkins a
copy of rules designed to explain the orders quoted above. We are
constrained to say that these explanations will probably not remove the
objections that have been widely entertained against the rulings of the
Department. It must be admitted, however, that there are difficulties in
the way of formulating regulations that in their details shall meet the
views of all parties concerned. On the one hand, there is the aim of
Commissioner Atkins, in which we all coincide, to introduce the English
language among the Indians as speedily as possible. On the other hand,
there is the aim of the churches, in which we are glad to believe the
Commissioner coincides, to spread the gospel as rapidly as possible
among the Indians. The churches feel that it is a duty they owe to God
and to those Indians who cannot understand English to teach them in
the language in which they were born, and they believe, too, as the