The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
ON PASSAGE OF THE BILL S. 411, ESTABLISHING A LINE OF STEAM MAIL SHIPS BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND SHANGHAI, TOUCHING AT SANDWICH ISLANDS AND JAPAN. (P. 1601-2)
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 S. 411
How each state's senators voted
In 14 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 7 every one voted no; 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 no
- New York: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 1 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 2 no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 2 yes, 0 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 2 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 2 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- William King Sebastian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Gillette (Free Soil) — NAY
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — YEA
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Slidell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Judah Philip Benjamin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Julius Rockwell (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — YEA
Maine 2 yes, 0 no
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Rice Atchison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Sheffie Geyer (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 0 yes, 2 no
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jared Warner Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Norris Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wright (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 2 yes, 0 no
- James Cooper (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Tillinghast James (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Allen (Democrat) — YEA
South Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — YEA
- John Bell (Whig) — YEA
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 60 members
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