Dr. Hurlbutt submits a news item from 1910.

Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012, at 10:43 pm, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

“APACHE DANCES” IN A PARLIAMENT.
LEGISLATORS’ ORGIES.

…. New Jersey is seething with indignation over the incredible conduct of a number of its legislators on the closing night of the session last week. All over the state religious bodies are meeting to demand that the Governor, Mr. Fort, shall take immediate steps to punish the men who have violated the halls of the Legislature by participating in orgies which, to quote the words of the Rev. George Ridout, “were more glaring and obnoxious even than Belshazzar’s revelry.”

The charges against the Lower House are that in the course of an all-night sitting it permitted a score or more of dissolute women to fling confetti from the galleries and indulge in the coarsest kind of horse-play. The legislators, it is alleged, staggered on the floor of the House or slept at their desks in a condition of undisguised inebriation. All restraint was finally abandoned in the small hours of the morning, when the lawmakers and their disreputable guests flouted the dignity of the House by a series of “apache dances.”

Source: The Daily Mail (London), 13 April 1910.