The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AGREE TO THE AMENDMENT TO THE BILL H. R. 74 (APP. 5/18/ 1842), TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE YEAR 1842, WHICH ELIMINATES FROM SECTION ONE THE PROVISI…
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)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
Every roll call on S. 5
How each state's senators voted
In 4 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 15 every one voted no; 4 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 1 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 2 no
- Tennessee: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 2 no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 2 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 2 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 2 no
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
- Richard Henry Bayard (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Clayton (Whig) — NAY
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Cuthbert (Democrat) — NAY
- John Macpherson Berrien (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Richard Montgomery Young (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel McRoberts (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 0 no
- Isaac Chapman Bates (Whig) — YEA
- Rufus Choate (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Leeds Kerr (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Duhurst Merrick (Whig) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Evans (Whig) — YEA
- Reuel Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Seymour Porter (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Woodbridge (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 0 yes, 2 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Henderson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Robert John Walker (Democrat) — NAY
North Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Leonard Wilcox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Levi Woodbury (Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Welsh Miller (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Lewis Southard (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New York 1 yes, 1 no
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Sturgeon (Democrat) — NAY
- James Buchanan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Fowler Simmons (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Sprague (Whig) — NAY
South Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
Virginia 1 yes, 1 no
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 49 members
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