New Orleans Daily Creole

House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON, July 11, 1856.

MINORITY REPORT OF THE KANSAS INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE.

Mr. Oliver, (dem.) of Missouri, from the minority
of the Kansas Investigating Committee, made a re-
port, in which he says the resolution on which the
Committee was raised, was simply to communicate to
the House. He had no expectation of anything be-
yond this being done. He arraigns the report of the
majority of the Committee as altogether ex parte, re-
marking that many of the statements are without
fact and testimony to support them. He states that
the evidence taken shows that Mr. Whitfield was the
duly elected delegate in November, 1854, and that
while the testimony was conflicting and directly con-
tradictory on some points relative to the election in
March, 1855, for members of the Legislature, yet
from the whole it clearly appears that the anti-slave-
ry party was in the minority in fourteen out of
eighteen election districts. The aggregate vote cast
for their candidates throughout the Territory, as they
appear on the poll books, was short 800, while by the
census taken in the Territory before, there were 2,905,
legal votes, without allowance for the immigration
of bona fide settlers, after the census and before the
election. He states that there is no evidence of any
force or violence used to prevent any man from vot-
ing in the entire Territory; no evidence of a single
assault and battery about voting on that day; no
evidence of assailing in the slightest degree the cor-
rectness of Governor Reeder's judgment in awarding
certificates of election to the members of the Legis-
latuie. That Legislature was a proper law making
body, and therefore its laws were valid, as far as
they were consistent with the constitution of the
United States and the organic act, and Mr. Whitfield
being duly elected in pursuance of law thus passed
is entitled to his seat. Mr. Oliver reviews at great
length the existing troubles in Kansas, saying, from
the evidence they are properly chargeable to the
revolutionary movements of those who got up the
Topeka Convention, and who have pledged them-
themselves to resist the laws at all hazards.