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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
TESTIMONY AS TO ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, IN THE SEVENTH DISTRICT.
I. B. TITUS called and sworn.
To Mr. Reeder:
I moved into the Territory, where I am now living, on the 1st day
of October, in the year 1854, in the seventh district, and have resided
there ever since. I was at home on the 30th of March, 1855. There
was a large camp across the creek from my house, which I estimated
to contain between two and three hundred. I was not at home the
day previous to the election, but arrived the night previous, and
found the camp there. I went into the camp the next morning; I
saw some three or four persons in the camp that I had seen in the
district, and knew had claims there; the balance were all strangers
to me. They were armed-I think, all of them-some with one kind
of arms, and some with another. I saw no flags or music along with
them. I don't know where they got their provisions and fodder, but
supposed they brought them with them, as I knew of no other way of
their getting them. Some had tents, and some slept in their wagons.
I had some conversation with them; they said they were from Missouri, and had come out on purpose to vote. One man said they were
disappointed, as they expected to find more Yankees there than there
were, and allowed that they had more with them than was necessary
to balance the vote. I do not recollect that I learned the names of
any of those strangers. I saw a great many of them vote, and
thought they all voted, as I was in or about the house all day. The
election was held in my house. They went back east, on the Santa
Fe road, in the direction of Missouri-some before the election was
over, and the rest afterwards. I have seen none of those strangers
in the district since, except a few passing through, freighting to the
Grove. I have seen a few of them in Missouri since.
Cross-examined by Mr. Woodson:
In the conversation I had in camp, they intimated that a good many
free-State people had come out to make Kansas a free State, and they
came to overbalance that vote. That was the inducement they gave
for coming. I came into the Territory from Iowa. I was well acquainted with the district at that time, as I was one of the first in
it. I know the boundaries of the district, but do not recollect the
number of miles across it. I think I knew all the residents at the
time of election. There were not many came in there before the election, of actual settlers, though considerable came out sonice time before
the election to look at the town site, and then returned before the
election. The population was very sparse; and I should think there
were about twenty-five resident voters there at the time of election. I
know of none who came into the district and voted and then returned,
but Missourians. I know of none others who returned immediately
after the election. I did not trouble myself much about the candidates at that time, as I was pretty neutral in politics. I may have
known them, but do not recollect them now. The "110" settlement
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