New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07
THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION

From Our Special Correspondent
LEAvENwORTH, May 20, 1856.
The following is the evidence given before tho
Committee of Investigation this afternoon:
john HAMILros, sworn-Lives in the Vth DE-
trict near Fort Scott; was originally from fennsyI
yanis; has been two years in Missouri; was present
at the election on the goth of March; saw crowd Of
ne,sons there. not residents Of the district; knew
MANY of them to be residents of Missouri there were
about ore hundred and fifty Of them; they were
armed; they came in wagons and on horseback; mo"
Of them camped. but some of them stayed IN puohc
bouses. some of these men told him they came 70
vote: in the afternoon some of these men from Ms-
souri came to witness and asked if he intended to co.,
test the election and advised him not to do so they
advised him as friends, and told him 1t "ou'a DIV ''
safe for him to do so.
FRANCIS NJ. POTTER, sworn-Came from bucnsa''
County No. in October, 1854; was at the Marcn e.''
ton 1855. in the XVIII District; there was crowdc
nonresident men at the poll, that day; they came
companies from toward Missouri; there were soue' wv
or three hundred of them witness personally kne"
many of them while living in Buchanan Cou"''
knows that they still reside there.
J.. W. Hosrs, sworn-Lve in the XVIII lkckspT
District; was at the election in March, 1888; teAs'
to the same frauds at that election; identified nsn
of Missourians who had been over at the electn''
these men had mostly hemp in their button-hols;
they went up to the polls in a row, and voted "
rotation.
EMERY ID. Cook, sworn-Came 10 the TerritoJn
1854; lives near Fort Scott; on the day OF electa
March 3o), he cav large number Of men, nonr~
dents of the district, who had to the polls; NJ
came in companies in wagons; many OF them csns~
day before; they brought tents, aud some proVs'"
in wapots; there were no women with them, 10 N
gage, or other appearance Of movers they were afa
witne.. bad worked good deal in the south'"e''a
counties Of Missouri as stone mason andh recognis"
many of the men who came up In these eo'hpa"i" 80
farmers ard other busness men who he kne" fe's =,
in Mirsouri on the day Of election he conversed W
many Of these men; one party told nun tney
from Cooper County, Missouri; told witness they'~
10 vote, and had right the men there thN dsy
from several counties; some from jackson, but ~'~'
from Gaze, Cooper, and other southern coanties'
Another witness was examined who gave ts'ia'-
about the Missouri invasion at Kickapoo; s''
fed that Mr. Oliver Of the Comm ssion was theie -
ing speeches to those men, and in bis speeche
ing of the right Of these Mi~ourians to vo@' d
Oliver croes questioned these witnesses win
deal Of al xiety and earne,tness, but made '0'u -
the way of sofeniDg the fact that he came o' -
Missouri with these men at the time OF tne a,
end by public speeches encouraged them 70 :, y
only point in his favor lhe publicly ADM" xss
came over with these men aad made spee<
tism), is that no one has been able to give ,h.S
that they saw him hand in ballot. lnoeeS, eeS,,..AI
nesses had seen few men actually voting S'
va. sworn that they were ranged up in hne s~sS
shsl,d up to the poll in regular order. xStss
Invaders and th. .r Pro- Slavery frierds about
lad possession of the polls, and thought AL s<<
the Free State men were told that al ss'
peaceably both by Oliver and Others W. sss
wonderful that they did not keep earthe ps,Ik
,ipoe. NJ. Oliver, in private, has, uD''"