The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-12
BY TELEGRAPH.
TENNESSEE.
Interview of the Legislative Com
mittee with the President.
An Executive Session.
Doors Closed and Reporters
Excluded.
Indian Difhoulty in Arkansas.

WASHINGTON, Sept 11.-This morn
ming the Tennessee Legislative Com
mittee had an interview with the
President by formal appointment. II
continued more than one hour.
AS the reporters for the press were
excluded no particulars could be ascer-
tanned additional to the fact that the
Chairman, Ar. Weisner, read to the
President an address they had prepared
since their arrival in Washington. in
which they set forth n series OF griev-
ances based on the report of outrages,
&C., recently made to the Legislature
ofTennessee. They say the statements
therein nre all sustained by proof. They
add, in behalf of our respective Houses
we urge you to send as early as prac-
ticable, the sooner the better, sufficient
Federal force to that state to aid the civil
authorities and act with them in sup
pressing these wrong and in bringing
10 trial the guilty parties and in giving
assurance that all the laws, will be en-
forced, crime punished and protection
extended to such officers and citizens
as may attempt to execute the laws or
to prosecute for their violation. The
legislature of Tennessee in sending us
to make this request, did so on the
grounds that she is part OF the great
American union, contributing to the
sopport of the Common Government,
ENJOYING its benefits and blessings and
they were asking of the Government of
the United States what they believe they
had right under the constitution to e:x-
pect.
[Signedl WILLIAM Fl. WE1sNER,E
on the part of the Seaoge,
THOs. H. HAMILTON
j. II. AGEE,
on the part Of The ROuEe.
The President gave his views,
when the parties entered into convISr-
sation, fully canvassing the politimIl
affairs OF Tennessee. After the Commit
tee took leave of the President, tbSy
were interrogated by a reporter as so
what had taken place, but they replied
that what was said by the President
they were not at liberty 10 commuEI-
cate, farther than that they were rece Y-
ed kindly and the interview was satls
factory as far as it went, but that thpre
was no definite conclusion reached.
The Committee are to have another .n-
terview with the President, and they
will themselves telegraph 10 the Ten
nessee Legislature the result fthe mis-
sion.
The Acting Commissioner of Indian
Affairs this morning received rep:.rt
from Superintendent Wynkoop, giving
an account OF the difficulty which pc-
the soldiers at Fort Reno, in Arkansas,
and party of Kiowas Indians. The
difficulty originated by two young
Kiowas, who were intoxicated, riding
through white mans camp in dis
orderly manner, when they were fled
on, and one of them seriously wouad-
ed. The Indians reported to their band
having been fired on, and the KioWas
went to the fort in battle array, but
difficulty was then prevented by The
interference of n friendly Chief.
In the afternoon of the same day
wagon master arrived at the Fort and
reported that his train had been robbed
by Kiowas. A detachment of troops
was sent out to the Kiowa camp, and
upon their arrival the Indian women
and children jumped into the river to
swim to the opposite bank. The Iudi-
ans formed in line of battle, when the
wagon master, becoming frightened,
confessed he had given the merchandise
to the Indians. This terminated the
appearance of hostilities, and after some
talk, peace was arranged. Agent Wyn-
coop reports these Indians generally
disposed to be very friendly.