Mr.Berrien of Georgia made an exhaustive speech, inquiring into the rightfulness of title, and urged the line of 49 deg..

Mr.Crittenden followed in the same vein, and in a reply to Senator William Allen of Ohio, chairman of Foreign Affairs, made a speech abounding in sarcasm and ridicule.

The Whigs having in the campaign taken no part in the boastful demand for 54 deg.

40', were not subjected to the humiliation of retracing imprudent steps and retracting unwise declarations.
Under the influences at work in the Senate, events developed rapidly.
The House resolution of notice was defeated; and the Senate passed a substitute of a less aggressive type, in which the House, through the instrumentality of a conference committee, substantially concurred.

The resolution as finally adopted authorized the President "at his discretion" to give notice for the termination of the treaty to Great Britain.