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What was on the floor
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Every roll call on H.R. 31
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 9 every one voted no; 1 was 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: 3 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: no member on this roll call
- 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 13 no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 6 no
- Michigan: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 28 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: no member on this roll call
- Massachusetts: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 0 yes, 6 no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 8 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 18 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 18 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: no member on this roll call
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 9 no
- Kentucky: no member on this roll call
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 0 yes, 1 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.
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Iowa 0 yes, 6 no
Illinois 0 yes, 13 no
- Abner Clark Harding (Republican) — NAY
- Albert George Burr (Democrat) — NAY
- Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican) — NAY
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — NAY
- Green Berry Raum (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell (Republican) — NAY
- Jehu Baker (Republican) — NAY
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NAY
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NAY
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- Norman Buel Judd (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 2 yes, 8 no
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Dana Washburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Coburn (Republican) — NAY
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican) — NAY
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat) — NAY
- Morton Craig Hunter (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NAY
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
- William Williams (Republican) — NAY
Kansas 0 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican) — YEA
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Ginery Twichell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — YEA
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Phelps (Conservative) — YEA
- Francis Thomas (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Stone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hiram McCullough (Democrat) — YEA
- Stevenson Archer (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Augustus Pike (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — YEA
- John Andrew Peters (Republican) — YEA
- John Lynch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sidney Perham (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 0 yes, 9 no
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Republican) — NAY
- Carman Adam Newcomb (Republican) — NAY
- George Washington Anderson (Republican) — NAY
- John Forbes Benjamin (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Jackson Gravely (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Estes Noell (Democrat) — NAY
- William Anderson Pile (Republican) — NAY
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no
- John Taffe (Republican) — NAY
New Jersey 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Haight (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Sitgreaves (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Armstrong Halsey (Republican) — YEA
- John Hill (Republican) — YEA
- William Moore (Republican) — YEA
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 28 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Addison Henry Laflin (Republican) — YEA
- Burt van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — YEA
- Demas Barnes (Democrat) — YEA
- Dennis McCarthy (Republican) — YEA
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — YEA
- Hamilton Ward (Republican) — YEA
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — YEA
- James Brooks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Marvin (Republican) — YEA
- James Morgan Humphrey (Democrat) — YEA
- John Augustus Griswold (Republican) — YEA
- John Charles Churchill (Republican) — YEA
- John Fox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — YEA
- John Morrissey (Democrat) — YEA
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn (Democrat) — YEA
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Selye (Ind. Republican) — YEA
- Orange Ferriss (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Taber (Democrat) — YEA
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Cornell (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Elliott Stewart (Conservative Republican) — YEA
- William Craig Fields (Republican) — YEA
- William Erigena Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Robertson (Republican) — YEA
- William Slosson Lincoln (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 0 yes, 18 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Eggleston (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Cornelius Springer Hamilton (Republican) — NAY
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — NAY
- George Washington Morgan (Democrat) — NAY
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — NAY
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — NAY
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- John Thomas Wilson (Republican) — NAY
- Martin Welker (Republican) — NAY
- Philadelph van Trump (Democrat) — NAY
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (Republican) — NAY
- Reader Wright Clarke (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — NAY
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — NAY
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Shellabarger (Republican) — NAY
- Tobias Avery Plants (Republican) — NAY
- William Lawrence (Republican) — NAY
- William Mungen (Democrat) — NAY
Pennsylvania 18 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Adam John Glossbrenner (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Markley Boyer (Democrat) — YEA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Denison (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Johnson Morrell (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Myers van Auken (Democrat) — YEA
- Darwin Asahel Finney (Republican) — YEA
- George Funston Miller (Republican) — YEA
- George Van Eman Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Lutz Cake (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Lawrence Getz (Democrat) — YEA
- John Covode (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — YEA
- Stephen Fowler Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Ulysses Mercur (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Koontz (Republican) — YEA
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 0 yes, 6 no
West Virginia 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 161 members
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