The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO SUSPEND THE RULES, IN ORDER TO TAKE H.R. 392 FROM THE SPEAKER'S TABLE AND REFER IT TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE ON THE STATE OF THE UNION. (P. 2106-2)
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)
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 H.R. 392
How each state's members voted
In 8 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 7 every one voted no; 13 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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: 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 1 no
- Michigan: 4 yes, 0 no
- New York: 12 yes, 4 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 9 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 3 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 13 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 5 yes, 7 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 1 no, 4 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 5 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 0 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, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- George Smith Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Abercrombie (Whig) — NAY
- James Ferguson Dowdell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Phillips (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sampson Willis Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- William Russell Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Allen Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alexander McDougall (Democrat) — YEA
- Milton Slocum Latham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll (Democrat) — NAY
- James Timothy Pratt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Belcher (Democrat) — NAY
- Origen Storrs Seymour (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Addison Reese (Whig) — YEA
- David Jackson Bailey (Democrat) — NAY
- Elijah Webb Chastain (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — YEA
- Junius Hillyer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Barton Wade Dent (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
- Bernhart Henn (Democrat) — YEA
- John Parsons Cook (Whig) — YEA
Illinois 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Whig) — YEA
- James Cameron Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Knox (Whig) — YEA
- Jesse Olds Norton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Wentworth (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexander Richardson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Bissell (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Allen (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 3 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Harlan (Democrat) — NAY
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Mace (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henry Lane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- Norman Eddy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Wilson Parker (Whig) — YEA
- Smith Miller (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat) — NAY
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 4 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Edwards Grey (Whig) — YEA
- Clement Sidney Hill (Whig) — YEA
- James Stone Chrisman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cabell Breckinridge (Democrat) — NAY
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leander Martin Cox (Whig) — YEA
- Linn Boyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Presley Underwood Ewing (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Stanton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Preston (Whig) — YEA
Louisiana 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Perkins Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Roland Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt (Whig) — YEA
- William Dunbar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander de Witt (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Wentworth Upham (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Dickinson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Wiley Edmands (Whig) — YEA
- John Zacheus Goodrich (Whig) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Hurd Walley (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker (Whig) — YEA
- Tappan Wentworth (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Whig) — YEA
- William Appleton (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Henry May (Democrat) — NAY
- Jacob Shower (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Rankin Franklin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua van Sant (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ephraim Wilder Farley (Whig) — YEA
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Whig) — YEA
- Moses Macdonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Mayall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Page Benson (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 4 yes, 0 no
Missouri 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred William Lamb (Democrat) — NAY
- James Johnson Lindley (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Gaines Miller (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — NAY
- Mordecai Oliver (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Caruthers (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 0 yes, 5 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Burton Craige (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Marchmore Shaw (Democrat) — NAY
- John Kerr Jr. (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Clauselle Puryear (Whig) — YEA
- Sion Hart Rogers (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Ruffin (Democrat) — NAY
- William Shepperd Ashe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Washington Kittredge (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Morrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Hibbard (Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Skelton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Vail (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Taylor Stratton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Lilly (Democrat) — NAY
New York 12 yes, 4 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Oliver (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Pringle (Whig) — YEA
- Bishop Perkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Caleb Lyon (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hughes (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Terryll Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Davis Carpenter (Whig) — YEA
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Whig) — YEA
- Francis Brockholst Cutting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Abel Simmons (Whig) — YEA
- George Hastings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Chase (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Gerrit Smith (Free Soil) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Whig) — YEA
- Hiram Walbridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Maurice (Democrat) — YEA
- Jared Valentine Peck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- John Wheeler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Walsh (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Whig) — YEA
- Peter Rowe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Democrat) — NAY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Russell Sage (Whig) — YEA
- Solomon George Haven (Whig) — YEA
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Thorn Flagler (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas William Cumming (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Adams Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Marcy Tweed (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Murray (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 13 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Whig) — YEA
- Alfred Peck Edgerton (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Ellison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Andrew Stuart (Democrat) — YEA
- David Tiernan Disney (Democrat) — NAY
- Edson Baldwin Olds (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Ball (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Wade (Free Soil) — YEA
- Frederick William Green (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Bliss (Democrat) — YEA
- Harvey Hull Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lampkin Taylor (Whig) — YEA
- John Scott Harrison (Whig) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Free Soil) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Whig) — YEA
- Matthias H. Nichols (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Bledso Corwin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Ritchey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Dell Lindsley (Democrat) — YEA
- William Robinson Sapp (Whig) — YEA
- Wilson Shannon (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 5 yes, 7 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Asa Packer (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Drum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Christian Markle Straub (Democrat) — NAY
- David Ritchie (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Democrat) — NAY
- Hendrick Bradley Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Gamble (Democrat) — NAY
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Dick (Whig) — YEA
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McCulloch (Whig) — YEA
- John McNair (Democrat) — NAY
- John Robbins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Ripley Chandler (Whig) — YEA
- Michael Carver Trout (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ner Middleswarth (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Augustus Bridges (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Lyon Russell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Marshall Howe (Whig) — YEA
- William Everhart (Whig) — NAY
- William Henry Kurtz (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Witte (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Babock Thurston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NAY
- John McQueen (Democrat) — NAY
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Preston Smith Brooks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Aiken (Democrat) — NAY
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — NAY
Tennessee 4 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Ready (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Emerson Etheridge (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Perry Stanton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Green Taylor (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Malone Bugg (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Cullom (Whig) — YEA
- William Montgomery Churchwell (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Washington Smyth (Democrat) — NAY
- Peter Hansbrough Bell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 0 yes, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NAY
- Fayette McMullen (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NAY
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- Zedekiah Kidwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alvah Sabin (Whig) — YEA
- Andrew Tracy (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Meacham (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 2 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 233 members
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