Some very satisfactory assurance must have been given me that such vote would be satisfactory to you, and I only wonder that I did not have the assurance verified....  I assume that the Editor is correct in the explanation as given.

Very truly, J.S.  BRAFORD.

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Letter of Mr. Carr.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 15th, 1879.

MY DEAR JUDGE:  I have received your letter and a printed copy of the record of the proceedings of the Assembly of California of 1851, in the matter of the impeachment of William R. Turner, Judge of the then Eighth Judicial District of the State.  In reply, I have to say, that the statement of the Editor as to the vote on the motion to indefinitely postpone the proceedings is correct, so far as I am concerned.

It was distinctly understood by me, and to my knowledge by other members of the Assembly, that you had consented to such postponement, it being explained that the postponement was not to be taken as an approval of the Judge’s conduct.  On no other ground could the motion have been carried.  If the vote had been taken on the charges made, articles of impeachment against the Judge would undoubtedly have been ordered.

Your consent to the postponement was understood to have been given, because of the change in the judicial districts by an act introduced into the Assembly by yourself, under which Judge Turner was sent to a district in the northern part of the State, where there was at the time scarcely any legal business, and which was removed to a great distance from the district in which you resided, and because of the general desire manifested by others to bring the session of the Legislature to a speedy close.  The impeachment of the Judge would have necessitated a great prolongation of the session.

No member of the Assembly justified or excused the atrocious and tyrannical conduct of the Judge towards yourself and others.

I am, very truly, yours,
JESSE D. CARR.

HON.  STEPHEN J. FIELD.

[1] By mistake, there are two Exhibits H; they are, therefore,
    marked No.  I. and No.  II.

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EXHIBIT H, No.  II.

Letter of Judge Gordon N. Mott giving the particulars of the difficulty with Judge Barbour.

SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 28th, 1876.

HON.  STEPHEN J. FIELD.

DEAR SIR:  Your letter of the eleventh instant, in which you requested me to give you, in writing, an account of the affair between yourself and Judge W.T.  Barbour, at Marysville in 1853, was duly received.