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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
Your committee report the following facts not shown by the tables
Of the 2,905 voters named in the census rolls, 831 are found on the
poll-books. Some of the settlers were prevented from attending the
election by the distance of their homes from the polls, but the great
majority were deterred by the open avowal that large bodies of armed
Missourians would be at the polls to vote, and by the fact that they
did so appear and control the election. The same causes deterred the
free-State settlers from running candidates in several districts, and in
others induced the candidates to withdraw.
The poll-books of the 2d and 8th districts were lost, but the proof is
quite clear that in the 2d district there were thirty, and in the 8th
district thirty-eight legal votes, making a total of eight hundred and
ninety-eight legal voters of the Territory whose names are on the
census returns. And yet the proof, in the state in which we are
obliged to present it, after excluding illegal votes, leaves the total
vote of 1,410, showing a discrepancy of 512. The discrepancy is accounted for in two ways: First, the coming in of settlers before the
March election, and after the census was taken, or settlers who were
omitted in the census; or, secondly, the disturbed state of the Territory while we were investigating the elections in some of the districts,
thereby preventing us from getting testimony in relation to the names
of illegal voters at the time of election.
If the election had been confined to the actual settlers, undeterred
by the presence of non-residents, or the knowledge that they would be
present in numbers sufficient to outvote them, the testimony indicates
that the council would have been composed of seven infavor of making
Kansas a free State, elected firom the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th council
districts. The result in the 8th and 10th, electing three members,
would have been doubtful, and the 5th, 7th, and 9th would have elected three pro-slavery members.
Under like circumstances the House of Representatives would have
Be-n composed of fourteen members in favor of making Kansas a
free State, elected from the 2(l, 3(d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th
representative districts.
The result in the 12th and 14thl representative districts, electing
five members, would have been doubtful; and the 1st, 6th, 11th, and
15th districts would have elected seven pro-slavery members.
By the election as conducted, the pro-slavery candidates in every
district but the 8thl representative district received a majority of the
votes:; and several of them, in both the council and house, did not
"reside in" and were not "inhabitants of" the district for which
they were elected, as required by the organic law.
By that act, it was declared to be " the true intent and meaning
of this act to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domnfstic institutions in their own way, subject to the constitution of {he Un'ted States." So careful was Congress of the right of
popular sovereigty, that to secure it to the people, without a single
petition from any portion of the country, they removed the restri,tion against slavery imposed by the Missouri compromise. And yet
,this right, so carefully secured, was thus by force and fraud overthrown by-a portion of the people of an adjoining State
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