Back at San Diego in April 1828,[1] Echeandía summoned his diputados to assemble, presumably at San Diego;[2] but there is no record of any action of the body this year, and little or no evidence that it met at all, except perhaps, as Alvarado says, to protest against the holding of meetings out of the capital, to listen to Echeandía's views on the subject, and to adjourn.[3] Later in the year, however, at an electoral junta held at San Diego on October 6th, the diputacion was reorganized by the choice of four new members.[4] All
- ↑ En résumé, E., as shown by his corresp., had left S. Diego late in March 1827; was at Sta Bárbara during a large part of April; arrived at Monterey about the middle of May, and left there late in Nov.; was at Sta B. from Dec. until March; and returned to S. Diego early in April.
- ↑ April 10, 1829, Echcandía's summons to Estudillo, Alviso, Buelna, Ortega, Bandini, and Tapia to meet as agreed upon at the close of the last sessions, but not naming the place. Dept Rec., MS., vi. 198. Buelna and Anastasio Carrillo mentioned as members in Sept. Id., vi. 92. Aug. 9th, E. orders Habilitado Domingo Carrillo (of S. Diego) to pay out of the municipal funds Alvarado's salary of $25 per month as secretary. Id., vi. 81. Other indications of Alvarado's presence as secretary at S. Diego as late as Dec. Dept St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxvi. 90-1. Alvarado's own version is confused in respect to dates, representing a first visit to S. Diego as having been in 1826, before E.'s visit to the north.
- ↑ Alvarado, Hist. Cal., MS., ii. 139-40; iii. 14-22, tells us that when the diputados arrived at S. Diego they sent him as secretary to inform the governor of their presence and that they awaited his message. The first act on assembling in the large hall of the comandancia was to protest on motion of Buelna against meeting away from the capital. Echcandía received the protest courteously, and a few days later explained his theory that as comandante general he had the right to live where he could do most for the interests of the country, that is in his opinion at S. Diego. The diputacion replied that if he had that right, it as a body had it not, but was required by law to meet at the capital under the presidency of the senior vocal in the absence of the gefe político. Echcandía replied: 'I do not object. Let the diputados return to Monterey if they like.' The governor, however, had some resentment against Alvarado, in whose handwriting was the protest. Soon, on account of a quarrel with P. Menendez, chaplain of the troops — a Dominican whose wine he had been drinking and whose sermons he had been writing — Alvarado was summoned before the gefe político, and reprimanded for disrespect to a friar. A stormy scene followed, in which the young secretary — so he says — crowded Eehcandía into a corner, pretended to have a dagger, and finally induced him to become calm, talk the matter over, and listen to reason. They parted friends, and E. went so far as to explain his real reason for choosing to live at S. Diego, viz., his fear of Herrera and his confederates, who had plotted to seize him and send him to Mexico!
- ↑ These were Cárlos A. Carrillo, Pio Pico, Vicente Sanchez, and José Tiburcio Castro, as 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th respectively. Actas de Elecciones, MS., 8; Leg. Rec., MS., i. 127; Dept St. Pap., S. José, MS., ii. 12; Dept Rec.,
war for Gonzalez to proceed to Mexico. Sup. Govt St. Pap., MS., vi. 1. Inocente García, Hechos, MS., 40, 44, says that one of the offences for which Gonzalez was sent away was the arbitrary infliction on him, García, of 100 palos without trial, and he not being a soldier. Beechey, Voyage, ii. 57, 85, speaks of Gonzalez as having risen from the ranks by his own merit.
