The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY, THE RESOLUTION THAT THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT, IN ANSWER TO THE TWO SENATE RESOLUTIONS OF THE 15TH INSTANT, DOES NOT GIVE THE SENATE THE INFORMATION IT REQUESTED.
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 9 every one voted no; 6 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no
- Delaware: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 2 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 2 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.
Alabama 0 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no
Delaware 2 yes, 0 no
- Nicholas van Dyke (Adams) — YEA
- Thomas Clayton (Adams) — YEA
Georgia 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 1 yes, 1 no
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no
- James Noble (Adams) — YEA
- William Hendricks (Adams) — YEA
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 0 no
- Elijah Hunt Mills (Adams) — YEA
- James Lloyd (Adams) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no
Maine 1 yes, 1 no
- John Chandler (Jackson) — NAY
- John Holmes (Adams) — YEA
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
- David Barton (Adams) — YEA
- Thomas Hart Benton (Jackson) — NAY
Mississippi 0 yes, 2 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
- John Branch (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Jackson) — NAY
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no
- Levi Woodbury (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Bell (Adams) — YEA
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph McIlvaine (Adams) — NOT VOTING
- Mahlon Dickerson (Jackson) — NAY
New York 1 yes, 1 no
- Martin van Buren (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Sanford (Adams) — YEA
Ohio 2 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 1 no
- William Findlay (Jackson) — NAY
- William Marks (Adams) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Gaillard (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Young Hayne (Jackson) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Randolph (Jackson) — NAY
- Littleton Waller Tazewell (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
- Dudley Chase (Adams) — YEA
- Horatio Seymour (Adams) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 47 members
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