Mr.Gallatin objected that Congress could not declare a state of facts by a legislative act.

But this view, if tenable then, has long since been abandoned.

In witness of which it is only necessary to name the celebrated resolution of the Congress of 1865 with regard to the recognition of a monarchy in Mexico.

July 6 the House went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union to consider a bill sent down by the Senate abrogating the treaty with France.

The bill was passed on the 16th by a vote of 47 ayes to 37 nays, Gallatin voting in the negative.