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

KANSAS AFFAtIRS.
alarmed. The house we met in had but two rooms, and was not completed; they worked on it all day the Sunday before the meeting to
get the roof on; the floors were loose, and it had no doors or windows.
As long as we staid there, we had no room for a committee to meet,
and, in consequence, we could not remain in session more than one or
two hours at a time.
SAMUEL A. WILLIAMS.
Subscribed and sworn to, before me, this 9th day of June, A. D.
1856.
THOMAS J. GOFORTH,
Justice of the Peace, Jackson county, Missouri.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
County of Jackson, SS.
I, John R. Swearengen, clerk of the county court within and for
the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas J. Goforth, esq.,
whose genuine signature appears to the above affidavit, now is, and
was at the time of so doing, an acting justice of the peace within and
for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that
full faith and credit is due, and ought to be given, to all his official
acts as such, as well in courts of justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
[L..] seal of said court, at office, in the city of Independence, this
14th day of June, A. D. 1856.
JOHN R. SWEARINGEN, Clerk.
Deposition of William Barbee.
STATE OF MI ssOI, to wit
Jack7cson county, o
On the sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, William Barbee, who deposeth and saith: That the members
elect of the first legislative assembly of the Territory of Kansas met
at the Shawnee Mission some time in the early part of April, 1855,
and while there memorialized Governor Reeder to call them together
at an early day, as many of us believed at the time there were Lo
laws in force in the Territory by which crimes could be punished and
civil wrongs redressed; and he was also asked, in the same memorial,
to assemble the legislature at some other place than Pawnee. The
requests thus made were refused, and the legislature, by proclamation
of the governor, assembled at Pawnee on the second day of July, 1855.
When we (I being a member of the council) got to Pawnee we_found
but three or four inhabitable buildings, and but one house at which
any of us could be accommodated, and at that house but a small portion of the members and officers of the legislature could be accommo
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