The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE BILL H.R. 48, BY INCREASING THE SALARIES OF THE MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM $15,000 TO $18,000 PER ANNUM AND NO EXTRA ALLOWANCE FOR OUTFITS. (P. 1961-3)
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 H.R. 48
How each state's senators voted
In 6 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 19 every one voted no; 3 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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, 2 no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 no
- California: 0 yes, 2 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 2 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NAY
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- William King Sebastian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- John Middleton Clayton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — YEA
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — NAY
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 2 no
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — NAY
- John Pettit (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Slidell (Democrat) — NAY
- Judah Philip Benjamin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NAY
- Julius Rockwell (Whig) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Pitt Fessenden (Whig) — NAY
Michigan 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Stuart (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis Cass (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jared Warner Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Norris Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 0 no
- James Cooper (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah James Evans (Democrat) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NAY
- John Bell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — NAY
Virginia 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 60 members
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