The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND S. 179, BY ELIMINATING FROM THE 2ND SECTION, THE CLAUSE PROVIDING THAT THE NET PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF ALL PUBLIC LANDS OF THE U.S., WHEREVER SITUATED, SUBSEQUENT TO DEC. 31ST NEXT, SHALL BE DIVIDED…
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 8 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 5 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 1 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 2 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- 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.
Alabama 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 0 yes, 2 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 2 yes, 0 no
Indiana 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 1 yes, 1 no
Maine 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no
- Isaac Hill (Jackson) — YEA
- Samuel Bell (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Mifflin Dallas (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Wilkins (Jackson) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 48 members
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