Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-02-19
Captain and Doctor Ruppe Pays Citizen
High Compliment in Speech on
Exclusion of Correspondents.
QUITE A GOOD DEAL WAS DONE IN INTRODUCING BILLS
Much Good Legislation of General Character May Be Ex
pected to Be Pushed Rapidly During Remaining
Weeks of the Session.
case, as should he happen to make a
mistake 1t would reflect on me-

case, as should he happen to make a
mistake 1t would reflect on me-"
Mr.. Ruppe continued speaking.
stating that he wanted included in
the resolution under debate, The
Citizens representative and the rep
resentative of the Las Vegas Optic.
The point of the joke is that the OPP
tic man certainly is clear of even re-
porting the legislative proceedings.
81 am entitled to $4,000 damages"
said Littlefield Ruppe with one of
those expressive waves of his hands
for which the leader of the demo-
cratic minority is noted. II should
have it just for the pictures The Citi-
zen has published of me, to say moth
ing of the articles sent out from
here by the correspondent of that
paper"
Captain DR.. Littlefield Ruppe con-
tinued to fill the atmosphere of the
house with like eulogizies of The Citi-
zen's correspondent until he had thor
oughly exhausted his vocabulary when
he sat down. Captain Littlefield Rup-
pc is all right. He means well and he
is learning.
Mr.. Mullens said he thought the
house was giving the Morning Jour
nal too much free advertising.
In that respect, a number of the
members of the house agreed with
him. 1t was more than the yellow,
sensational stories, which caused the
action referred to were worth.
The speaker then asked for vote
on the resolution and Mr.. Captain DIR.
Littlefield Ruppe called for the roll.
The vote was 16 ayes with one absent
from the majority's ranks, and 7
nays. Those opposing the resolution
were:
Abbott of Colfax, Hudspeth, Lucero
Y Montoya, Mirabal, Moran Mullens,
who objects to free advertising; Lit
tlefield Ruppe, Walters, who has re-
covered from Littlefield Rupees lat
est oratorical effort.
The resolution is in full as follows:
NINA. .1u-hcpa -gh, TAoI h h h
The following resolution, intro
duced by Representative Sanchez. of
San Miguel county, was passed by a
vote of l 6to Z:
Whereas, The representative and
| correspondent of the Albuquerque
| Morning Journal since the convening
of the present legislative assembly.
has persistently made inaccurate and
untruthful reports of the proceedings
of this body, and has apparently in
tentionally misrepresented the atti-
tude and public utterances of indi-
vidual members of this body concern
ing pending matters of legislation
and otherwise; therefore, be it
Resolved, By the house of repre-
sentatives of the thirty-seventh legis-
lative assembly of New Mexico, that
the present representative and cor
! respondent of said Albuquerque
Morning Journal, be and he is here
by excluded from the floor and gall
leries of this house during the re-
mainder of the present session, and
that said Albuquerque Morning Jour
nal be and it is hereby respectfully
requested to provide itself with a cor
respondent who can be relied upon to
truthfully and accurately report the
proceedings of this body.