The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO TABLE A RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT THE COMMITTEE OF RULES BE INSTRUCTED TO REPORT A RULE PROHIBITING USE OF THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN LEGITIMATE BUSINESS OF CONGRESS…
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 7 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Illinois: 6 yes, 8 no
- Wisconsin: 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 6 yes, 19 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 4 yes, 2 no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 7 no
- Pennsylvania: 10 yes, 7 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 2 no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 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 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Donald Campbell McRuer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Bidwell (Republican) — YEA
- William Higby (Republican) — YEA
Connecticut 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Anthony Nicholson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 4 yes, 2 no
Illinois 6 yes, 8 no
- Abner Clark Harding (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Jackson Kuykendall (Republican) — NAY
- Anthony Thornton (Democrat) — NAY
- Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican) — YEA
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — YEA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell (Republican) — YEA
- Jehu Baker (Republican) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NAY
- John Wentworth (Republican) — NAY
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton (Republican) — NAY
- Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 2 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NAY
- Ebenezer Dumont (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NAY
- John Hanson Farquhar (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hutton Defrees (Republican) — NAY
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat) — NAY
- Ralph Hill (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Neel Stilwell (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harding (Democrat) — NAY
- Burwell Clark Ritter (Democrat) — NAY
- George Sea Shanklin (Democrat) — NAY
- Green Clay Smith (Unconditional Unionist) — NAY
- Henry Grider (Democrat) — NAY
- Lawrence Strother Trimble (Democrat) — NAY
- Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel McKee (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- William Harrison Randall (Unconditional Unionist) — NAY
Massachusetts 2 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NAY
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — NAY
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — NAY
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Maine 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Augustus Pike (Republican) — YEA
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — YEA
- John Hovey Rice (Republican) — YEA
- John Lynch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sidney Perham (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Minnesota 1 yes, 1 no
Missouri 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Anderson (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Taylor Blow (Republican) — YEA
- John Forbes Benjamin (Republican) — YEA
- John Hogan (Democrat) — NAY
- John Russell Kelso (Ind. Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Estes Noell (Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Henry Rollins (Republican) — YEA
- Gilman Marston (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — YEA
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Sitgreaves (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Farson Starr (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Augustus Newell (Republican) — NAY
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 6 yes, 19 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Addison Henry Laflin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Burt van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Goodyear (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Henry Winfield (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Morris (Republican) — NAY
- Demas Hubbard Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Nelson Hubbell (Democrat) — NAY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Ward (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Jarvis Raymond (Republican) — NAY
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — NAY
- James Brooks (Democrat) — NAY
- James Humphrey (Republican) — NAY
- James Madison Marvin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Morgan Humphrey (Democrat) — NAY
- John Augustus Griswold (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — NAY
- Morgan Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Taylor (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Safford Hale (Republican) — YEA
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — YEA
- Roswell Hart (Republican) — NAY
- Sidney Tracy Holmes (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Taber (Democrat) — NAY
- Teunis Garret Bergen (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Treadwell Davis (Republican) — NAY
- William Augustus Darling (Republican) — NAY
- William Radford (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 12 yes, 7 no
- Benjamin Eggleston (Republican) — YEA
- Columbus Delano (Republican) — YEA
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — NAY
- Francis Celeste Le Blond (Democrat) — NAY
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy (Republican) — YEA
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — YEA
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — YEA
- James Randolph Hubbell (Republican) — YEA
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Welker (Republican) — YEA
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (Republican) — NAY
- Reader Wright Clarke (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — NAY
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — NAY
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Shellabarger (Republican) — YEA
- Tobias Avery Plants (Republican) — YEA
- William Edward Finck (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Henry Dickey Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 10 yes, 7 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Andrews Barker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Adam John Glossbrenner (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Markley Boyer (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Denison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Vernon Culver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Funston Miller (Republican) — YEA
- George Van Eman Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — NAY
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — YEA
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Russell Thayer (Republican) — NAY
- Myer Strouse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Fowler Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (Democrat) — NAY
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Ulysses Mercur (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 1 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
West Virginia 1 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 184 members
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