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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
or four others in and around Independence; and from the township of
Washington, that I lived in, there were some three or four Muirs,
some Nolans, and a young man by the name of Case, but I did not see
him vote; some young Harpers and Esquire Smith, then actingjustice
of the peace for Missouri; a man by the name of Abnett, and several
others I cannot now remember. I was in their camp while here, but
I did not see them leave, and but few came in, as they had principally
come before I had got here. I was surprised to see them here, as I
had heard nothing of their being here. There were several hundreds
on the ground, principally from Jackson county, Missouri. I should
suppose there were 300 or 400 at any rate-probably more than that,
though I cannot say exactly. I did not see any man vote more than
once that day. I left the polls immediately after the difficulty I had
started, and went into the camp.
Cross-examined by MIr. J. W. Whitfield:
There were a great many persons coming into the Territory at that
time, taking up claims; but a great many of those I saw there that
day I knew to be living in Jackson county, Missouri, for I have been
in Missouri since, and found them living there. Some of them that
day told me they stopped at Bull creek, and laid off a town, and took
each a lot there, and that was all the claim they had. There were
many who came in that fall and took up claims, and never camne back
again.
The following is the list of all the residents whose names I know
on the poll-list: George W. Berry, William Daly, Win. Holly, F.
M. IMcGee, John Smith, Robert Turner, M. W. McGee, M. A. Reid,
L. T. Cook, J. WV. Brown, Win. Handley, and Daniel Turner.
W. F. JOHNSTON.
TECr.LISEII, K. T., MIay 7, 18C)6.
ALFRED LARZELERE called and sworn.
I came into the Territory with my family on the first day of March,
18S.55, firom St. Joseph, Missouri, and settled in the Burr Oak precinct, in the 14th district, and have resided there ever since. I was
at the election on the 29th of November, 1854. My family was then
at St. Joseph, but I had made a claim in the Territory. I did not
come over for the purpose of voting at that election; did not vote, and
did not thlinkl I had any right to vote. Col. John Scott, Benjamin
Harding, and Mr. Bryant were the judges of election. Those judges
were elected, I think, after I arrived from St. Joseph. In the morning, when I got on the ground, I saw a great many citizens of Missouri there, principally citizens of St. Joseph. There was considerable excitenent at the time I arrived, which appeared to be arising from
a dispute between the citizens of Missouri and the citizens of the Territory, as to the right of Colonel Scott to act as a judge of election. I
took no part in it. The issue was, that Colonel Scott was selected
by the bystanders, the citizens of Missouri taking as active part in it
as those who were bona-fide citizens of the Territory. Colonel Scott
13