The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE BILL WHICH PROVIDES TO IMPROVE THE UNITED STATES BY PUBLIC ROADS AND CANALS, BY STRIKING OUT THE WORDS "ONE-HALF" FROM SECTION 1, LINE 9, AND INSERTING "TWO-THIRDS".
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
How each state's senators voted
In 9 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 5 every one voted no; 3 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 0 no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 0 no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 2 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 2 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no
Delaware 0 yes, 2 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 0 no
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Philip Reed (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 0 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 0 no
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 34 members
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