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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
of any in our company, or out of it, that came out here to vote, and
then go back. I never heard of a pro-slavery man in Pennsylvania.
The company got here to Kansas City on the 8th or 9th of November.
They scattered to different points of the Territory, and many stopped
in Missouri. Some few remained at our town after they arrived there,
while the rest went away in about a week-went away before the election. All that did go back, but three or four, were gone before the
fall election. These men came out to settle in the Territory.
To Mr. Oliver:
I have seen several editions of the circulars of the New York American Settlement Company, but they differ. I do not know the working of the company.
LAWRENCE, K. T., April 29,1856.
MARCUS H. ROSE examined.
J. R. STEWART.
Q. Mr. Rose, have you examined and compared the census-rolls and
the poll-book of the election of the 30th of March, 1855, in the seventh district?
A,4. I have.
Q. How many votes are there on the census-rolls?
4. Fifty-two.
Q. How many are on the poll-list of those on the census-rolls?
A4. Seventeen.
Q. About how many names are on the poll-list altogether?
A. Two hundred and thirty-four.
Q. What are the names of those seventeen you find on the censusrolls?
A4. David Condit, John W. Freel, Wm. Graham, W. Foster Harvey, Abraham Hoover, Joseph McIntyre, Thomas Russell, Mathias
A. Reed, Ithiel Streit, James R. Stewart, William A. Stewart, John
Smith, Loten Smith, Ely Snyder, I. B. Titus, Divilla Wright, and
Henry Smith.
There are the names of eight legal voters on the poll-list that are
not on the census returns, as follows: John Skidmore, Isaac Chatham,
Charles A. Linkenanger, L. S. Axtill, William J. Tillinghast, Geo.
W. Barnes, W. N. Haven, and H. Rice. Six of these persons were
away who had been there before the census was taken, had made
claims and built cabins. The other two were new comers.
Q. IHow many votes were polled at the first election, in November,
1854, according to the copy of the poll-book?
A4. Six hundred and seven.
Q. From your acquaintance with the people, and the examination
of the census-roll, how many resident voters were there in your district at that time?
A. There might have been twenty-five or thirty, though I was not
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