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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
wished me to assist them. I loaned them the money, taking their
notes for the amount. One of them is the man I have mentioned as
having returned to Easton; and the other has not returned, to my
knowledge, and I believe is still in the Territory, or in Missouri. I
assisted none of the others to go. There is one other young man yet
in the Territory, who was desirous to go out from Pennsylvania, and
I advanced him money to assist him, taking his note. He has re mained, and is still there, as I have recently heard; but he has never
been to Pawnee. I have assisted other men who were pressed in the
Territory, butc this is the extent of my taking men there.
I was not an original stockholder in Pawnee, as is well known by
all persons connected with the project. I first came in at the same
time with Judges Elmore and Johnson, United States marshal Don aldson, and district attorney Isaacs, in the manner I have stated,
about the 2d of November, 1854, after the association was formed,
constitution adopted, town located and surveyed, or partly surveyed.
I afterwnards purchased two other shares from Mr. Wilson; making
twenty sub-shares, as nearly as I can recollect; some of them were
for other persons, to whom they have been transferred. I disposed of
one of them to Mr. Marshall, as stated by Mr. Wilson, but did not
sell it to him at all; on the contrary, I exchanged it for other town
stock, and before Mr. Marshall had been elected to the legislature, or
before I knew he was a candidate; all of which facts Mr. Marshall, a
gentleman of the same politics as SIr. Wilson, will, I have no doubt,
state if called on. As to the residue of MIr. Wilson's evidence, I cannot consent to meet it with any statements of my own. It was taken
when I was not present, and was not represented, and when there
was no opp)ortunity to object, or cross-examine him, and, as I suppose, was only received in a time of great haste, through mere inadvertence, as I had offered evidence opening up the subject of my official condluct in fixing the seat of government at Pawnee, which was
objected to as irrelevant, and ruled out by the committee.
A cross-examination would have fully explained Mr. Wilson's testimony, as it will be seen he testifies to disconnected scraps of conversation, declarations of other persons, contents of papers not produced,
&c. I was the first to offer evidence on this subject; and having been
overruled, I cannot consent now to meet this evidence by my own
statements alone, at a time when other evidence is beyond my reach,
and cannot be waited for
A. H. REEDER.
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