Bisbee daily review., 1910-04-28
SIGNS OF POLITICAL
AND SOCIAL DECENTRALIZATION.

SIGNS OF POLITICAL
AND SOCIAL DECENTRALIZATION.
The closing hours of the national
congress and of the state legislatures.
while those alleged grave and digni-
ded assemblies are waiting for the
last laws to be signed and authenti-
Gated. are often filed up with hui
morous and iocose proceedings.
Sometimes Il closes its sitting for
the season with the singing of senti-
mental songs and general hand-shak-
ings but it was reserved for the leg
islature of New Jersey. which closed
It's session at midnight of Thursday.
April I, to wind up its proceedings
viii an orgy that has been compared
to Belshazzar's wild revelries IN tee
midst OF his great and apparently i'm
| pregnable city of Babylon. which was
captured by the Modes and Persians.
The New York World of April has
a dispatch from Trenton. the capital
Of New Jersey. which thus character
ICES the wild revelries OF the New
Jersey legislators;
Briefly. the details Of the disor-
der that began n the assembly cham
her at Thursday midnight. as they
have come 20 light, will supply
groundwork for an amazing indict-
ment of this closing session of the
assembly.
1T will be declared that a group
of VIGOROUSLY dissolute women Of
Trenton were brought TO the assem-
big and got a whole section of seats
in the gallery, where they conducted
themselves so shockingly By yelling
to members below hurting confetti
at them and singing to them that de
cent women we're forced to withdraw.
Among those who withdrew were many
young girl students from the state
normal school, who attended sessions
Of the legislature to study govern
ment
Afterwards. in a room OF the gal
lery, the disreputable women viii
members Of the legislature and at
S taches of the capitol, INDUCED i;
P wild revelry, with high kicking an
hoccheecooche and Apache dances
Al eeceacy and restraint were abar
6oned, 1t is sad.
Foul phrases were flung across tn
.e aoor of the house and echoed fror
i. the galleries. When the confetti CAV
s. Iut the women took to THROWN
s, books. Legislators staggered on tn
m floor OF slept at the desks in undi
\ guisable intoxication. Drinks wei
S. served at the desks of members. tn
e. coarsest and most undignified ac
he I horse play and 'rought house wei
a uacted and, all in all. the dignity
or iae state and the decency of Il
Id Immunity it s asserted, were fou
% 81 in a way unparalleled"
or These scenes in the iegislati'
of ais OF a great state of the Anne
an Union while the lawmake
We themselves are present and organic
DR.. for business are doubtless new
M iae history of this republic. and
Dr. ruly shows what sort Of men 4
in american people are choosing
ro- AXE their laws. There is someth !
gn fightfui in the revelations that a
IS being made of bribery and CORR
Or ton in the state legislatures. b
he when II Is realized that the men 7"
wd do such things are deliberately {
lrs Iected and elected by the people
1st treat states. the question may
by veil asked: To what goal Of
lat amy and crime are the Americ
in eople tending; where WI It endl
Of It is the history of the world Il
m when the people OF a republic 81
er. themselves up to corruption and Ia
rer lossness. they bring on conditio
nd that always end In the establishing
IA dsspotic and absolute control. La
ac- Iessness and the overturning Of
I'M cial order and morality become so