The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 549, WHICH AMENDMENT AUTHORIZES PAYMENT OF FULL BOUNTY TO SOLDIERS HONORABLY DISCHARGED BY REASON OF WOUNDS OR SICKNESS INCURRED IN THE SERVICE IN THE LINE OF THEIR DUTY. (P. 3354-…
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).
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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. 549
How each state's members voted
In 9 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 14 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, 2 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 4 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 3 yes, 3 no
- Michigan: 5 yes, 1 no
- New York: 10 yes, 13 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 10 yes, 0 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 5 yes, 13 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 10 yes, 14 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 1 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: 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 3 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 2 no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 2 yes, 3 no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 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 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Iowa 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Asahel Wheeler Hubbard (Republican) — YEA
- Hiram Price (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Falconer Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- John Adam Kasson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 4 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Lausett Knapp (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Murray Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — YEA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Arnold (Republican) — YEA
- James Cameron Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Carroll Robinson (Democrat) — NAY
- Jesse Olds Norton (Republican) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Rice Eden (Democrat) — NAY
- John Todd Stuart (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- William Joshua Allen (Democrat) — NAY
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 2 yes, 6 no, 2 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) — NAY
- James Addison Cravens (Democrat) — NAY
- James Foster McDowell (Democrat) — NAY
- John Law (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (Democrat) — NAY
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 3 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harding (Unionist) — NAY
- Brutus Junius Clay (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- George Helm Yeaman (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Green Clay Smith (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Henry Grider (Unionist) — NAY
- Lucien Anderson (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Robert Mallory (Unionist) — NAY
- William Harrison Randall (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- William Henry Wadsworth (Unionist) — NAY
Massachusetts 10 yes, 0 no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — YEA
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — YEA
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — YEA
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 3 no
Maine 3 yes, 2 no
Michigan 5 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Austin Augustus King (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Henry Taylor Blow (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- James Sidney Rollins (Unionist) — NAY
- John Guier Scott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Samuel Knox (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- William Augustus Hall (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 1 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 3 no, 2 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) — NAY
- William Gaston Steele (Democrat) — NAY
New York 10 yes, 13 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Ambrose Williams Clark (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Anson Herrick (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Frank (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Henry Winfield (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Morris (Republican) — YEA
- De Witt Clinton Littlejohn (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NAY
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NAY
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — NAY
- Martin Kalbfleisch (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Fowler Odell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Orlando Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Bruce van Valkenburgh (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Franklin Miller (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Treadwell Davis (Republican) — YEA
- William Radford (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 5 yes, 13 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Long (Democrat) — NAY
- Chilton Allen White (Democrat) — NAY
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Celeste Le Blond (Democrat) — NAY
- George Bliss (Democrat) — NAY
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NAY
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — YEA
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — YEA
- James Remley Morris (Democrat) — NAY
- John Franklin McKinney (Democrat) — NAY
- John O'Neill (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Worthington White (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — YEA
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Warren Perry Noble (Democrat) — NAY
- Wells Andrews Hutchins (Democrat) — NAY
- William Edward Finck (Democrat) — NAY
- William Johnston (Democrat) — NAY
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 10 yes, 14 no
- Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (Democrat) — NAY
- Amos Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Archibald McAllister (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Denison (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Wells Tracy (Ind. Republican) — YEA
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Tracy Hale (Ind. Republican) — NAY
- Jesse Lazear (Democrat) — NAY
- John Dodson Stiles (Democrat) — NAY
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bailey (Democrat) — NAY
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Russell Thayer (Republican) — YEA
- Myer Strouse (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NAY
- Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (Democrat) — NAY
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Miller (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Enoch Woodbridge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Portus Baxter (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 3 yes, 3 no
West Virginia 1 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 183 members
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