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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
and one hundred, but I do not recollect their names now. I estimated
the actual voters of that district at that time as between 150 and 200.
There might have been a few more or a few less. I made as good a
calculation as I could when I canvassed the district, and I was satisfied
that we had a majority of pro-slavery men in the district, twenty-five
or thirty, or more. Mr. Fee and myself had a great deal of talk,
and we concluded that the ticket could not have been elected even if
the free State men had a majority, because they were not united on
their ticket. I reckoned that Major Richardson was a resident of this
district at the time of the election, and I so regarded him when I ran
against him. The first I heard of anybody being shot at the election
was when I was told that Mr. Jamison had so testified before the
committee. I saw none of the Missourians armed that I recollect of;
if they were, they had them concealed. I judge they were not more
so than men here to-day. I do not think that Genera] Stringfellow
acted as clerk of the election at any time that day; if he did, I did
not know it, and I think I should have known it if he had so acted.
If there was any fighting committee appointed, and left there that day,
I did not know of it, and I saw no necessity for it.
To Mr. Sherman:
There was a difference of opinion as to the majority, each party,
the pro-slavery and free-State parties, claiming the majority in that
district. No eastern aid emigrants landed in our district that spring,
that I know of. Ex-judge Leonard, of Missouri, was there that day.
In the evening, just before the polls were closed, as the people were
going off in every direction, he got up and asked them to stop till the
polls were closed, and they would all go home together; all of his
own company, I suppose.
JOHN H. WHITEHEAD.
LEAVENWORTII CITY, K. T., May 23, 1856.
FOURTEENTH DISTRIcT —Doniphan Precinct.
RICHARD TUCK was called and sworn.
I came into the Territory in the spring of 1854, and settled about a
(tile below Doniphan. I came from Boone county, Missouri. I was
-t the election at Doniphan on the 30th of March. I got to the polls
very early in the morning. They had not commenced voting. There
.vere about 200 or 300 around the polls when I got there. The crowd
ontinued there during the day. Most of them were strangers to me.
knew a great many of the people round where I lived, and knew the
ettlers generally. Perhaps thirty or forty of the men around the
polls were settlers. I knew some of these used to live on the other
ide of the river in Missouri. B. G. Wells, W. C. Wells, my father
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