The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 63, (11 STAT 260 APP. 2-4-58), A BILL TO SUPPLY OMITTED APPROPRIATION FOR THE NATIONAL ARMORIES, BE REDUCING SAID APPROPRIATION FROM $360,000 TO $180,000. (P. 506-1)
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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- 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
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How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 22 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: 6 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 3 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, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 4 yes, 0 no
- New York: 14 yes, 9 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 8 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Indiana: 5 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 13 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 5 yes, 13 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 11 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 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, 1 no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 4 yes, 3 no
- Georgia: 3 yes, 3 no, 2 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, 1 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 4 yes, 3 no
Arkansas 1 yes, 1 no
California 0 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ezra Clark Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Arnold (Democrat) — NAY
- Sidney Dean (Republican) — YEA
- William Darius Bishop (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 3 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Romaldus Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Jackson (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Hill (American) — YEA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Pleasant Trippe (American) — YEA
Iowa 1 yes, 1 no
Illinois 3 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Shaw (Democrat) — NAY
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Langrell Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- William Kellogg (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 5 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Case (Republican) — YEA
- David Kilgore (Republican) — YEA
- James Bradford Foley (Democrat) — YEA
- James Hughes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Gregg (Democrat) — NAY
- James Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NAY
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 4 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Humphrey Marshall (American) — YEA
- James Brown Clay (Democrat) — NAY
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Husband Jewett (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — YEA
- Warner Lewis Underwood (American) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Eustis Jr. (American) — NOT VOTING
- John Milton Sandidge (Democrat) — NAY
- Miles Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Green Davidson (Democrat) — NAY
Massachusetts 1 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Anson Burlingame (Republican) — NAY
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee (Republican) — NAY
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — NAY
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Buffinton (Republican) — NAY
- Linus Bacon Comins (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Bernard Hall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Davis (Republican) — YEA
- William Shapleigh Damrell (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 6 yes, 0 no
Michigan 4 yes, 0 no
Missouri 1 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Mississippi 0 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
North Carolina 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 14 yes, 9 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — YEA
- Ambrose Spencer Murray (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Phelps Granger (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — NAY
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Dodd (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — YEA
- Erastus Corning (Democrat) — NAY
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — YEA
- George Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Palmer (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Charles Goodwin (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Francis Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Israel Thompson Hatch (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Searing (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Bussing Haskin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — NAY
- John Kelly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Mason Parker (Republican) — YEA
- John Thompson (Republican) — YEA
- Judson W. Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Oliver Andrew Morse (Republican) — NAY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel George Andrews (Republican) — NAY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs (Republican) — YEA
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — NAY
- William Fiero Russell (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 13 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — YEA
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Wade (Republican) — YEA
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NAY
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Burns (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Miller (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Republican) — YEA
- Lawrence Washington Hall (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Republican) — YEA
- Matthias H. Nichols (Republican) — YEA
- Philemon Bliss (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Mott (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Valentine Baxter Horton (Republican) — NAY
- William Lawrence (Democrat) — NAY
- William Slocum Groesbeck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 5 yes, 13 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Allison White (Democrat) — NAY
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Ritchie (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Chapman (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Myer Phillips (Democrat) — NAY
- James Landy (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lisle Gillis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Ahl (Democrat) — NAY
- John Christian Kunkel (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Covode (Republican) — YEA
- John Dick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hickman (Democrat) — NAY
- John Rufus Edie (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Owen Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Leidy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — NAY
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lewis Dewart (Democrat) — YEA
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NAY
- William Stewart (Republican) — YEA
- Wilson Reilly (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McQueen (Democrat) — YEA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — NAY
- Milledge Luke Bonham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Porcher Miles (Democrat) — NAY
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — YEA
Tennessee 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Ready (American) — YEA
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (American) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Maynard (American) — YEA
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — YEA
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — NAY
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Guy Morrison Bryan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henninger Reagan (Democrat) — NAY
Virginia 1 yes, 11 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — YEA
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NAY
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NAY
- William Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eliakim Persons Walton (Republican) — YEA
- Homer Elihu Royce (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NAY
Wisconsin 1 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 235 members
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