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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
I gave my farm, upon which I was living before I w-ent to the Territory,.
to my son-in-law. The farm was spoken of generally as my farm; I
had my servants and property there. I made the claim I now hold in
the Territory in November, 1854, and I remained there during the
winter, my wife living witlh myv son-in-law, and that was the case at
the election. I was nominated in the Territory a few days before the
election. At the primary election I was voted f()or, I thilk by ballot,
and got the nomination. The free State men had no p)rimary election.
Thev were withdrawn because I think they knew they would be beaten.
I do not know w-lo paid the expenses of these MIissourians who wcede
over then; I paid nothing of it. They said they came over to counIteract eastern votes. We heard of them and believed they were coming. The only reason I ever heard assigned for these Missourians coining
there was to counteract the votes sent by the Emigrant Aid Society.
I never heard the free State candidates say when they were withdrawn
that they did so because there were non-residents there. Bela MI.
Hughles, Colonel A.'I. Mitchell, Colonel Silas Woodson, General
Bassett, John Scott, and AIr. Cunningham1, I know are all lavwyers,
and are all citizens of St. Joseph's. I cannot state the names of the
thirty odd persons I have stated as living near me, but will furnish a
list of them. General B. F. Stringfellow was about there at the time
of the election, but if he served as clerk of the election I did not know
it. I do not know that the free State candidates withdrew because the
Missourians were over there. I do not know how many voters there
were in that district. I do not think there had been a great deal of
emigration that spring. Some of the free State men were not there
at the polls, but the pro-slavery residents wvere generally thiere.
By Mr. Oliver:
The following are the names of the voters who lived in my neighborhlood of the district on the 30th of MIarch, 1855: Elijah Merrill;
Tipican; William RidgTe; Robert Whlitset; James Watterson;
G. W. Baker; John Doyle; Bryan; Thomas J. Dowlin; M. F.
Sweeney; Anderson Gladden; Sabert Gladden, who was then at work
at his brother's and since made a claim there; Dr. E. F. Wells; William Nichols, who lived with Wells; James Jolars; Oldey Evans; William H. Allen; Poleet, who is a Frenchman, but whose surname I do
not know; Edward Snyder; Anderson; Joseph Ashley;
Francois, a Frenchman; Williami Shelton; F. Trent; John W. Smith;
E. AI. Ioyain, and bro~lher-in-law, whose name I do not know;
Uno Charles Slimner; Robert Reid; Miatthias Rup1); George Shun;
Joseph Shun, who is father of George, and George is brother-in-law
of Rtupp; Hezekiah Jackson; Peter 0. Rope; Benjamin Duncan: John
W. Stephens; James Gillespie, and Dio.
The district from east to west in the largest p)art is twelve miles, as
near as I can say. It is irregular in shape, owing to the river, and is
about fifteen miles north and south in the largest part. The average
width I cannot give owing to its irregularities.
There are two bottoms or neighborhoods below me, in one of which
Jamison's names are, and I find none among his list from the other
neighborhood. There is also a neigborhood above me of which I have
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