The Theory They Worked On

The million dollar congress, the most extravagant which ever met, will not find itself upheld by all republicans: John B. Henderson, of St. Louis, Mo., who was the permanent president of the Republican National Convention in 1884, recently said: "As a republican, I think the extravagance of the congress just adjourned was an outrage upon the party and the people. . . . The republicans in congress mnst have been proceeded upon the theory that they were not coming into power again in about four hundred years."