Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas,: with the views of the minority of said committee.

KANSAS AFlFAIRS.
jurisdiction over the matter, as we were enquiring about what was out
of our county. The question was then written out, and submitted to
Judge Lecompte, who presided, and he decided it was competent.
When we returned into the jury room Mr. Hutchinson then immediately asked permission to go into the court room below and attend to
a case he had there. We told him that as a matter of courtesy we
would let him go, but we would expect him to return as soon as he
got through his case. We waited some time, and he did not return,
and he never came back again, and I have never seen him since.
To Mr. Sherman:
We had been interrogating him in relation to this secret society in
Lawrence. Judge Lecompte held that we had no authority to enquire
as to what took place in Lawrence, unless we believed it implicated
some one in our county. We did so hold, and upon that ground he
decided the enquiry competent.
WESTPORT, M-ISOURr, June 4, 1856.
JoniiN Scow testifiels.
W. H. TEBBS.
To Mr. Oliver:
Prior to the election in Burr Oak precinct, in the fourteenth district
on the 29th of November, 1854, I had been a resident of Missouri
and I then determined, if I found it necessary, to become a resident of
Kansas Territory. On the day previous to that election I settled up
my board at my boardinghouse in St. Joseph's, Missouri, and went
over to the Territory and took boarding with Mr. Bryant, near whom
house the polls were held the next day, for one month, so that I might
have it in mny power, by merely determining to do so, to become a
resident of the Territory on the day of election. I was present at
Mr. Harding's when the polls were held on the morning of election
prior to and at the time the judges were appointed. When my name
was suggested as a judge of the election, no such suggestion had been
made to or in regard to me that I was aware of, until the hour ot
opening the polls had arrived, when, by the absence of two judges
appointed by the governor, it became necessary to select others in
their places. When my name was proposed as a judge of election
objections were made by two persons only, so far I knew, Messrs.
Harding and Larzelere, in regard to my want of residence in the
Territory. I then publicly informed those present that I had a claim
in the Territory; that I had taken board in the Territory for a month,
and that I could at any moment become an actual resident and legal
voter in the Territory, and that I would do so if I coneluded at any
time during the day that my vote would be necessary to carry that
precinct in favor of the pro-slavery candidate for delegate to Congress,
and that I knew of no law requiring.a judge of that election selected
by the voters present to be a resident of the Territory. I was then
elected, took the oath prescribed by the governor, and faithfully and
impartially discharged the duties of judge of that election, swearing
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