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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
persons resident voters not on the census returns, and whom I know
to have been residents:
J. N. Newmew, George W. Morris, J. M. Ward, T. Mathias, A.
Snow, John January, H. Varbal, M. Sellers, J. T. Ray, F. F. York,
Wm. Humphries.
1 find no other names on the census book that are also on the poll
list, except those I have given. The census list is alphabetically
arranged; I took up the poll book name by name, and whenever I
found a name on the poll book that was on the census list, I put it
down in my list. I put on the list names I did not know, but I found
their names both on the census and poll lists. I have also given the
names of those I know to have been resident voters who were not on
the census returns, but were on the poll lists.
Upon examining the poll books, I found the names of persons I
know to be residents of Missouri at that time, the 30th of December,
1855. The following are their names:
G. Oldham, G. W. Oldham, P. Zeal, C. Mitchell, J. S. Mitchell,
H. C. Weire, John Knight, G. T. Jones, G. L. Harris, N. Godefroy,
E. Dean, Wm. March Banks, S. A. Williams, J. C. Anderson, Wm.
D. Lynde, William Merick, J. AI. Newman.
I do not know with regard to the other names I find there. There
are names I am familiar with, but do not know the given names, and
do not recollect to have seen them on the ground. I do not know
where those live whose names I have not mentioned, and whom I find
on the poll list.
Cross-examined by Joseph C. Anderson:
I understood the district at that time commenced in the channel of
the Little Osage, and followed the stream up; and there was no district west of it in the Territory. It run to the southern boundary of
the Territory; it was about seventy miles wide; it included the
Indian lands and nations, and there was very little of it open to settlement. I had been ill the Territory about twenty days before the
election. I did not know the voters in the district, as I had not canvassed it; there might have been many men there, legal voters, I did
not know; I would not say all the names I have not given were illegal voters. I heard no one say, as I recollect, what induced them to
come there to vote. I should judge, of those I saw there that day,
two thirds were armed. It is customary for citizens of the Territory
to have arms. Those men generally had pistols. I was not induced
to any course of conduct by any threats made towards me. I had repeate(lly stated I should contest that election if I thought I had a
majority of the legal votes there then. I did not contest it at that
time, because there was not time enough to contest it; and I believed
at the time a majority of the votes were against me. There were
thirty-five votes counted out as given for me. I never have ascertained that I received a majority of the legal votes there; I do not
know ot' any more. I knew men from Missouri who voted for me;
two told me they had voted for me. I (lid inot send to my friends in
Missouri to come to that election, or intimate to them in any way that
I should like to have them come. I do not know that Joseph C. An
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