Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-25
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Corkhill's Tenure of Ofice-The Star Route Cases Left to TItm-Other Matters WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-An inquiry into
 the revival of the rumor of the removal of
 Colonel Corkhill from the District attorney ship develops the fact that if the last Star
 route trial had resulted definitely his tenure
 would have ceased. The President has said
 that he desired to make no change in the ju- dicial personnel of the District until that trial is we'll out of the way. The companion story that Marshal Henry is soon to be suc- ceeded by Brewster Cameron is also un- founded.
 A prominent society lady in conversation with the President last week learned his idea of the rumor that his son would be married in the White House. The President ex- pressed himself as follows: ''The story is absurd. My son has no wish to be married until settled in life, and he is not through college. Besides he will no doubt choose 8 bride who has home of her own and who would wish to be married in it.''
 MT. Frank H. Fall, the lawyer whose name has been connected with fixing the Star Route jury,' has returned to the city. In an interview he stated that he was not surprised when he heard that his name had been used, knowing, he did, that during the trial the defendants had agents watching the move ments of almost every one who had any busi- ! ness about the court house that he knew he had done nothing which would embarrass the government or which would injure him in the least. He admitted that he had seen MT. ! Holmead frequently during the trial and corroborates what Mir. Holmead says in his affidavit-viz., that he asked MT. Holmead to keep lookout to what was being done in respect to other jurors. and claims that it having been reported that two or more of the jurors had been bought. there was no 1 impropriety in having some one to watch f k1a5,~ Eo1l 1aI hos son to suspect that Mir. Holmead acted in any other way than according to the dictates of his own conscience, and that he was hon. est in his conviction. As to the alleged Brown affidavit MT. Fall says he does not know whether Payne (who, it is stated, ap- does that while acting for the government ! several parties called on him and represented that they had some of the jurors in their pockets, and perhaps Payne may have been one of these. MT. Fall denies that he ever ! attempted to influence any juror to vote for the government or that he was authorized to do so by the government, and he asserts that all his acts while acting for the government were reported daily to the proper officers oi l the government. MT. Fall states that he has l no fears of full and complete judicial inves l tigation and is willing to respond whenever called upon.
 Many spectators who closely watched Engineer Melville and Lieutenant Danen hover during the reception yesterday failed K to discover evidence of the ill feeling ant l jealousy that has been attributed to them l They went together to-day to see Seaman
 Jack Cole at the asylum and in fact thei l whole intercourse seemed most cordial ane
 kind Melville will report at the departmen ! to morrow and deliver over the chests o | the papers of the Jeannette's cruise. Thes ! comprise all the documents saved, including Captain DeLong's log and note books ant Engineer Melvilles own charts and notes
 He will doubtless be assigned to special dut
 ! in preparing report, which whom completes
 ! will be made public with Lieutenant Danen
 howers. Both will probably be completes
 before the Congressional committee has pre-
 pared the report of it's investigation. MT
 Melville hopes to return to Philadelphia nsx
 | Wednesday.