Show ELEGRAPHIC NEWS Star Route Wabingcn 12Tbe star routers are trying hard to get their case from Judge Wylie One of them was at the Capitol i very busy yesterday and soon after a bill was introduced iu the House providing provid-ing that if any party to any case pending r in a circuit court or many term of the supreme court of the District of Columbia Colum-bia 10 any proceedings therein shall at any time before trial fi e an affidvpit that be believes the judge eo prejudiced that be cannot have a fair and impartial said judge shall not try the case but it shall bePostponed until another judge of the court be assigned by the general term to hold the term or try the cause No steps were taken in tho star route cases of San derson Saulsbury and others which ares are-s clear and important that conviction would surely follow the presentation oi f evidence This delay is suspicious New York 12Tbe postal inspectors stationed here and at Silt Lake are busy subpoenaing witnesses for the star route trials at Washington Thirteen I witnesses have already gone on but r twenty more will proceed from Colorado alone and from different routes From Western Minnesota and Nebraska the witnesses have started to Washingtonand when they have not the money to pay their fare inspectors pay it for tbemand the same is charged up against their pay as witnesses Washing 121n the star route oase a two hours argument ensued on the decision of the Judge that if counsel desired to exercise the right of interrogation interro-gation of persons called as jurors they must first challenge the jurors for cause and state the grounds of the challenge Ingersoll confessed that he did not understand un-derstand tile district law neither did any body else or if he did he didnt retain re-tain the same opinion long Counsel and l court gave an amused assent The defense then challenged Bennett for cause and the juror was discharged Another juror was rejected end Isaac Echler was accepted as the first juror |