The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION FOR ADJOURNMENT BY SUBSTITUTING AUG. 30 INSTEAD OF AUG. 16. (P. 1784-2)
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 10 every one voted no; 10 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 1 no
- California: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
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, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no
California 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKendree Gwin (Democrat) — NAY
Connecticut 1 yes, 1 no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — NAY
- Truman Smith (Whig) — YEA
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NAY
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — YEA
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Whitcomb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Meriwether (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pierre Soulé (Democrat) — NAY
- Solomon Weathersbee Downs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 1 yes, 1 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — YEA
- John Davis (Whig) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — NAY
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NAY
- James Ware Bradbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alpheus Felch (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Cass (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
- Stephen Adams (Democrat) — NAY
- Walker Brooke (Whig) — YEA
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Edmund Badger (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Willie Person Mangum (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Welsh Miller (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Field Stockton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 1 no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NAY
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (Whig) — YEA
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — NAY
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — YEA
- William Upham (Whig) — YEA
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 62 members
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