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CHAPTER VIII.
AN INTERREGNUM ECHEANDÍA AND ZAMORANO.
1832.
THE DIPUTACION AT Los ANGELES ACTION AGAINST VICTORIA ATTEMPTS TO MAKE Pico GOVERNOR ECHEANDIA S OPPOSITION A FOREIGN COMPANY AT MONTEREY ZAMORANO S REVOLT A JCNTA AT THE CAPITAL THE NEWS AT SAN DIEGO SESSIONS or THE DIPUTACION Los ANGELES DESERTS ECHEANDIA WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IBARRA AT ANGELES BARROSO AT PASO I>E BARTOLO INDIANS ARMED COMPACT BETWEEN ECHEANDIA AND ZAMORANO THE TERRITORY DIVIDED- FINAL SESSIONS or THE DIPUTACION THE A VILA SEDITION WHO is GOVERNOR? AFFAIRS IN MEXICO CARRILLO S EFFORTS AND LETTERS CHOICE OF A GOVERNOR JOSE FIGUEROA APPOINTED INSTRUCTIONS MISHAPS OF A JOURNEY MUTINY AT CAPE SAN LUCAS WAITING FOR A RULER.
THE diputacion met at Los Angeles January 10, 1832.[1] Two subjects demanded and obtained almost exclusively the attention of this, body, the vocales present being Pico, Vallejo, Osio, Ortega, and Ar- guello, with Yorba later and Alvarado as secretary. The first duty was a proper presentment of charges against Ex-governor Victoria, as a defence of the late revolutionary movement; and the second was to name a gefe politico ad interim in accordance with the plan indorsed by the leaders of that movement. I append an abstract of proceedings at the meetings held in January and February.[2] So far as the action against
- ↑ Echeandia had on Jan. 5th sent out copies of the pronunciamiento of S. Diego, with remarks in defence of that document, concluding by asking the comandantes opinion on the provisional command. Vallejo, Doc., MS., i. 284.
- ↑ Session of Jan. 10th, dip. met in the casa consistorial; the oath was administered by Alcalde Dominguez; and Pio Pico, assuming the presidency
