The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO TABLE THE RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BE REQUESTED TO TAKE SUCH MEASURES AS MAY IN HIS JUDGEMENT BE NECESSARY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS AND INTEREST OF THE GOVERNMENT…
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 members voted
In 8 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 12 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, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Illinois: 6 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 10 yes, 8 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 5 yes, 1 no
- Indiana: 3 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 7 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 10 yes, 10 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 3 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: no member on this roll call
- South Carolina: no member on this roll call
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: no member on this roll call
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
California 3 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nathaniel Barratt Smithers (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 5 yes, 1 no
Illinois 6 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Lausett Knapp (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Murray Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Arnold (Republican) — YEA
- James Cameron Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Carroll Robinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse Olds Norton (Republican) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — YEA
- John Rice Eden (Democrat) — NAY
- John Todd Stuart (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- William Joshua Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 3 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ebenezer Dumont (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — YEA
- Henry William Harrington (Democrat) — YEA
- James Addison Cravens (Democrat) — NAY
- James Foster McDowell (Democrat) — NAY
- John Law (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harding (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Brutus Junius Clay (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- George Helm Yeaman (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Green Clay Smith (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Henry Grider (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Lucien Anderson (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mallory (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Randall (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- William Henry Wadsworth (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 3 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — NAY
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — NAY
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
Maine 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Augustus Pike (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — YEA
- John Hovey Rice (Republican) — YEA
- Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sidney Perham (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Minnesota 1 yes, 1 no
Missouri 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Austin Augustus King (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Taylor Blow (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- James Sidney Rollins (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- John Guier Scott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- William Augustus Hall (Unionist) — YEA
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Marcy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Henry Rollins (Republican) — YEA
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Middleton (Democrat) — NAY
- John Farson Starr (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nehemiah Perry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Gaston Steele (Democrat) — NAY
New York 10 yes, 8 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Ambrose Williams Clark (Republican) — YEA
- Anson Herrick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Frank (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Winfield (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Morris (Republican) — YEA
- De Witt Clinton Littlejohn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NAY
- Francis Kernan (Democrat) — NAY
- Freeman Clarke (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican) — YEA
- Henry George Stebbins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Homer Augustus Nelson (Democrat) — NAY
- James Brooks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Marvin (Republican) — YEA
- John Augustus Griswold (Democrat) — NAY
- John Benedict Steele (Democrat) — NAY
- John Ganson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Kalbfleisch (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Fowler Odell (Democrat) — YEA
- Orlando Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Bruce van Valkenburgh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Franklin Miller (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Treadwell Davis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Radford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 2 yes, 7 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Long (Democrat) — NAY
- Chilton Allen White (Democrat) — NAY
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — NAY
- Francis Celeste Le Blond (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Bliss (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — YEA
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Remley Morris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin McKinney (Democrat) — NAY
- John O'Neill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Worthington White (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Warren Perry Noble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wells Andrews Hutchins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Edward Finck (Democrat) — NAY
- William Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 10 yes, 10 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Archibald McAllister (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Denison (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Wells Tracy (Ind. Republican) — NAY
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Tracy Hale (Ind. Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse Lazear (Democrat) — NAY
- John Dodson Stiles (Democrat) — NAY
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bailey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Russell Thayer (Republican) — YEA
- Myer Strouse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NAY
- Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (Democrat) — NAY
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Miller (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Enoch Woodbridge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — YEA
- Portus Baxter (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Cobb (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat) — NAY
- Ezra Wheeler (Democrat) — NAY
- Ithamar Conkey Sloan (Republican) — YEA
- James Sproat Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Duncan McIndoe (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 182 members
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