CHAPTER XXV. MORE TERRITORY ACQUIRED TYLER AND THE WHIGS
QUARREL. - When Congress (in May, 1841) first met in Tyler's
term, Clay led the Whigs in proposing measures to carry out
their party principles. But Tyler vetoed their bill establishing
a new national bank. The Whigs then made some changes to suit,
as they supposed, his objections, and sent him a bill to charter
a Fiscal Corporation; but this also came back with a veto;
whereupon his Cabinet officers (all save Daniel Webster,
Secretary of State) resigned, and the Whig members of Congress,
in an address to the people, read him out of the party. Later in
his term Tyler vetoed two tariff bills, but finally approved a
third, known as the Tariff of 1842. For these uses of the veto
power the Whigs thought of impeaching him; but did not. WEBSTER-
ASHBURTON TREATY. - When Tyler's cabinet officers resigned,
Webster remained in order to conclude a new treaty with Great
Britain,  by which our present northeastern boundary was fixed
from the St. Croix to the St. Law