The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS S. 46. (P. 353-3)
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. 46
How each state's members voted
In 11 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 8 every one voted no; 7 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 7 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 4 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 4 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: 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: 3 yes, 0 no
- New York: 34 yes, 0 no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 3 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 17 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 21 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 4 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: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 12 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 10 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 9 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 7 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 4 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 6 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 6 no, 2 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 1 yes, 6 no
Arkansas 0 yes, 1 no
- Edward Cross (Democrat) — NAY
Connecticut 4 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Absalom Harris Chappell (Whig) — NAY
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Duncan Lamont Clinch (Whig) — NAY
- Edward Junius Black (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Howell Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
- Hugh Anderson Haralson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Henry Lumpkin (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Stiles (Democrat) — NAY
Illinois 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Indiana 3 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Kennedy (Democrat) — NAY
- Caleb Blood Smith (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Pettit (Democrat) — NAY
- John Wesley Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Albert Wright (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Dale Owen (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Caldwell Sample (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henley (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- William John Brown (Democrat) — NAY
Kentucky 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Garrett Davis (Whig) — YEA
- George Alfred Caldwell (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Grider (Whig) — YEA
- James W. Stone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John White (Whig) — NAY
- John Wooleston Tibbatts (Democrat) — YEA
- Linn Boyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard French (Democrat) — NAY
- William Poindexter Thomasson (Whig) — YEA
- Willis Green (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alcée Louis la Branche (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Edward Morse (Democrat) — NAY
- John Bennett Dawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Slidell (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Abbott (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Hudson (Whig) — YEA
- Daniel Putnam King (Whig) — YEA
- Henry Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- John Quincy Adams (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Grinnell (Whig) — YEA
- Julius Rockwell (Whig) — YEA
- Osmyn Baker (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Charles Winthrop (Whig) — YEA
- William Parmenter (Democrat) — YEA
Maryland 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Brengle (Whig) — YEA
- Jacob Alexander Preston (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John M. S. Causin (Whig) — YEA
- John Pendleton Kennedy (Whig) — YEA
- John Wethered (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Ara Spence (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maine 7 yes, 0 no
Michigan 3 yes, 0 no
Missouri 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Gustavus Miller Bower (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Butler Bowlin (Democrat) — NAY
- James Hugh Relfe (Democrat) — NAY
- James Madison Hughes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Jameson (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 0 yes, 4 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 9 no
- Archibald Hunter Arrington (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Moreau Barringer (Whig) — NAY
- David Settle Reid (Democrat) — NAY
- Edmund Deberry (Whig) — NAY
- James Iver McKay (Democrat) — NAY
- John Reeves Jones Daniel (Democrat) — NAY
- Kenneth Rayner (Whig) — NAY
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Whig) — NAY
New Hampshire 4 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no
New York 34 yes, 0 no
- Albert Smith (Whig) — YEA
- Amasa Dana (Democrat) — YEA
- Asher Tyler (Whig) — YEA
- Byram Green (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Holker Carroll (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Rogers (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Swan Benton (Democrat) — YEA
- Chesselden Ellis (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Dewey Barnard (Whig) — YEA
- David Lowrey Seymour (Democrat) — YEA
- George Oscar Rathbun (Democrat) — YEA
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — YEA
- Henry Cruse Murphy (Democrat) — YEA
- Horace Wheaton (Democrat) — YEA
- James Graham Clinton (Democrat) — YEA
- Jeremiah Eaton Cary (Democrat) — YEA
- Jeremiah Russell (Democrat) — YEA
- Jonas Phillips Phoenix (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Halstead Anderson (Democrat) — YEA
- Lemuel Stetson (Democrat) — YEA
- Levi D. Carpenter (Democrat) — YEA
- Moses Gage Leonard (Democrat) — YEA
- Orville Hungerford (Democrat) — YEA
- Orville Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- Preston King (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard David Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Selah Brewster Strong (Democrat) — YEA
- Smith Meade Purdy (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas J. Patterson (Whig) — YEA
- Washington Hunt (Whig) — YEA
- William Abbott Moseley (Whig) — YEA
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — YEA
- William Spring Hubbell (Democrat) — YEA
- Zadock Pratt (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 17 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Duncan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Harper (Whig) — YEA
- Alfred Parish Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Rose Tilden (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Stowe Hamlin (Whig) — YEA
- Elias Florence (Whig) — YEA
- Emery Davis Potter (Democrat) — YEA
- Ezra Dean (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry St. John (Democrat) — YEA
- Jacob Brinkerhoff (Democrat) — YEA
- James Mathews (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — NAY
- John Inskeep Vanmeter (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Jefferson McDowell (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Morris (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Vance (Whig) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Whig) — YEA
- Perley Brown Johnson (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Finley Vinton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Cochran McCauslen (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 21 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Robinson McIlvaine (Whig) — YEA
- Alexander Ramsey (Whig) — YEA
- Andrew Stewart (Whig) — YEA
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Jared Ingersoll (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Manning Reed (Whig) — YEA
- Cornelius Darragh (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Joy Morris (Whig) — YEA
- George Fuller (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Donnel Foster (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Nes (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Senewell Yost (Democrat) — YEA
- James Black (Democrat) — YEA
- James Irvin (Whig) — YEA
- James Pollock (Whig) — YEA
- Jeremiah Brown (Whig) — YEA
- John Dickey (Whig) — YEA
- John Ritter (Democrat) — YEA
- John T. Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Buffington (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Hutchinson Jenks (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Hays (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 7 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 10 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Venable Brown (Democrat) — NAY
- Alvan Cullom (Democrat) — NAY
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Cave Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- David W. Dickinson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John Baptista Ashe (Whig) — NAY
- Joseph Hopkins Peyton (Whig) — NAY
- Julius W. Blackwell (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Brown (Whig) — NAY
- William Tandy Senter (Whig) — NAY
Virginia 0 yes, 12 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Atkinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Alexandria Chapman (Democrat) — NAY
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard (Democrat) — NAY
- George Coke Dromgoole (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- George William Summers (Whig) — NAY
- John Winston Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Steenrod (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Chilton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat) — NAY
- Walter Coles (Democrat) — NAY
- William Leftwich Goggin (Whig) — NAY
- William Lucas (Democrat) — NAY
- William Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- Willoughby Newton (Whig) — NAY
Vermont 4 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 224 members
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