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

KANSAS AFFA IRS.
ministration. Mr. Flenniken said to me, after he had been to Lawrence, that it was inexpedient to say anything about the Kansas-Nebraskla bill or the present administration, as it might endanger his
election. Judge Wakefield was regarded as the abolition candidate,
opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska bill and the present administration.
Mr. Whitfield was regarded as the democratic pro-slavery candidate.
To Gov. King:
Mr. Flenniken said that Governor Reeder had made arrangements
for him to have the vote of Lawrence and south of the Kansas river,
which would amount to a thousand votes.
W. J. OSBORN.
LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., May 28, 1856.
JOSEPHA POTTER testifies:
I was at the election at Pensenau's on the 29th of November, 1854.
I saw sonice non-residents there, but I cannot say that I know they
voted. I do not recollect that I saw any one vote but myself. I saw
there some of those who did not live in the district-John Galbraith,
Samuel Singleton, and, I think, Benj. Yocum. They were my old
neighbors in Buchanan county, and I have never known of their
living in the district. Singleton has told me since, he did not vote
then. I do not suppose there were more than forty or fifty strangers.
There was quite a crowd there. Our district was quite thinly settled.
There was, I reckon, from 100 to 200 legal voters in the district;
there might not have been so many, and there might have been more.
I had some conversation with a man from Buchanan county, (Mr.
Kirk,) who has been a citizen of the Territory, and a representative.
I do not know whether he lives in the district now or not. I have
seen him at Atchison, but he did not tell me where his residence was.
Ira Norris, I think, is now the clerk of the Atchison county court.
Jesse Morin, I think, lived at that time near Platte City. I have seen
him there. I believe the election was orderly and quiet. I voted for
General Whitfield that day. A man by the name of Chapman was a
candidate, )lint I think was reported off the track that morning. Of
the 306 votes shown by the poll-books, judging from what I knew of
the district, and from what I saw at the polls, I should not suppose
more than 200 of them were citizens. I do not think all the citizens
voted that day. I think some of them did not vote, but I only know
that from hearsay.
Cross-examined by Mr. Whitfield:
I do not know as I know the size of that election district at that
time. I think quite likely it included Kickapoo. It included Stranger,
and I think ran to the Kickapoo reservation. It was a tolerably large
district, but the western portion of the district was not then settled.
I was not acquainted all over the district, and a part of these
strangers might have lived in the district, and I not have known it.
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