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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
The agent who located our pioneer party will accompany the next
one, and furnish all requisite information.
Yours, respectfully,
A. JENNINGS, Provincetown, Mass.
THOMAS II. WEBB,
Sec. Em. Aid Co.
The undersigned also refers to a pamphlet admitted in evidence before the committee, from which he submits the following extracts:
"THE PIONEER PARTY.-Charles H. Branscomb, esq., one of the company's agents, went up with the pioneer party, and located them on a
beautiful tract of land previously selected by him as an advantageous
position for a town-site. This spot is situated six miles above the
Wakarusa, a tributary of the Kansas river, and about thirty-five miles
above the mouth of the latter stream, on its south side. For a brief
description, the reader is referred to the paragraph commencing on
page eleven, and continued on page twelve, of this pamphlet.
" Mr. B. travelled in various sections of the Territory, and says it is
impossible for one who has not been in that region to conceive of its
beauty and fertility; he confirms all the statements that have been
made respecting it in our pamphlet.
"The second party left this city on Tuesday, the 29th of August.
They reached Kansas City September 6th, and entered the Territory
under the guidance of Charles Robinson and S. L. Pomeroy, agents of
the company. They were cordially received by the pioneer party,
and have made a joint settlement at the beautiful site selected by Mr.
Branscomb.
"The third party, under the guidance of Mr. Branscomb, (who has
returned twice from Kansas since July,) left Boston September 26th.
It numbered eighty-six persons, to which accessions were made at
Worcester, Rochester, and elsewhere westward. Messrs. Pomeroy
and Robinson are making great exertions to accommodate the parties
for the winter, and to provide the materials for the erection of houses
in the spring. This pressure of business involves a large expenditure,
which their experience will enable them to make with prudence and'
discretion. But their drafts cannot be met with the funds in the
hands of the trustees, unless' material aid' furnished by those who
wish for success to the enterprise shall be very much greater than it
has been thus far.
"The fourth party left this city the 17th of October. It numbered
123 individuals, to which sixty were added at Worcester, a number at
Springfield, Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo. At Chicago a large accession was anticipated, and ere leaving St. Louis the number will
exceed 250."
This was all in the summer and fall of 1854, and prior to the first
election for a delegate to Congress, in November of that year.
Whatever organizations, therefore, were formed in Missouri, of the
character alluded to by the majority of the committee, were formed
solely and expressly for the purpose of counteracting those organizations previously formed elsewhere. This the testimony abundantly
proves.
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