Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-05-06
DRUNKEN REVELRY
OF SOL0NS STIRS
JERSEY TO ACTION
Presence of Disreputable Won,
en- in Legislative Halls Is
Great Scandal.

! Trenton, n. j., April 16.-The New
Jersey conscience has been aroused by
s~candalous stories which have revealed
the existence of a Tuesday Night
| club" of legislators, who united in
revelries at two or three ~roadhouses
near Trenton, one of which came to
be known as New Jerseys House Of
Mirth," an appellation made famous
during the insurance investigation
delvings into the doings of some Albany
gentry a few years ago.
In response to telegraphic inquiries
directed to all the assemblymen and
senator's of New Jersey, there has
come a practically unanimous demand
for a searching investigation into the
truth or falsity Of the stories concern
ing the saturnalia that occurred in a
little room off the gallery of the as
sembly chamber in the state capitol
when the legislative session was pass
ing through its dying hours.
The Methodist Ministers association,
in conference here, adopted a resolu-
ton expressing pleasure at the report
that Governor Fort intends to make an
investigation and calling on the people
to refuse to support at the polls m
legislator Influenced by or allied to
the liquor interests"
Known Well to Women.
A close scrutiny of all the ascer-
tanned facts relating to the doings OF a
certain clique of the Legislators has
brought to light the following:
The women who Haunted their pres
ence in the gallery of the assembly
chamber after midnight and until sun
rise last Thursday, who pelted the
drowsy legislators beneath them with
confetti, and who later threw conVen-
lions to the winds, were not strangers
to the occupants of the seats radiating
from the rOstrum of Speaker Ward.
Time and again these women, with
others of their kind and some not so
versed in their ways, had foregathered
at roadhouses on the outskirts of Tren-
ton with certain members OF the iegis-
lature n their friends.
These men had dined and wined and
anced with the ONE Just to recip-
rOCate n in expectation of another
joy fest, half a dozen of them appeared
In the assembly chamber and sought
to inject a little light frivolity into the
humdrum proceedings of the last weary
hours of the session.
A reporter visited one of the road
houses where at least two of the Tues
day Night clubs dinners too place.
1t Is the Hamilton hotel, q large build
ing that was once the club house of
a stud farm kept by Jay Gould and II.
n. Smith. Peter H. Dolan is the pres
ent lessee of the place and he has fitted
it in a neat and attractive manner on
the inside.
MIR. Dolan, a cheerful character, debil-
itated by a recent illness, was intent on
burning up some loose sheets Of paper
on which there was writing, as the
reporter approached him. When told
that the object Of the visit was to as
certain something about the doings of
the Tuesday Night club, Mr.. Dolan
laughed, but in a semi-serious fashion.
"All this talk about ~scandalous GO
ings on in my place" said the hotel
keeper, ARE not only false but ridicu-
lous. Why, such things are impossible
in a place like this"
Young Girls involved.
A pathetic turn to the scandal was
given by a generally credited report
that not only women of dissolute hab-
it's, but young girls of the city have
been companions Of the legislators on
the 10y parties" that are now known
to have been the chief pastime of a
select coterie of senators and assembly
men during the session just closed.
Local report is to the effect that the
girls were employees of shops and Of
fees, and it is known that proposals
have even been made to young women
holding places In the capitol.
SO far as a be learned, none of the
score of young m holding places
IN the state house departments accept
ed the invitations to take auto rides,
and indignation is expressed that they
have even been mentioned in the affair.
Complete information regarding the
J revelry of Thursday night shows that
legislators who attended the affair were
outnumbered by employees of the state,
able, for the first time in the session,
to take part in the good tines
This phase of the affair is to be made
subject Of a special inquiry, according
to reports here.