The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THE MAIN QUESTION ON ENGROSSMENT AND THIRD READING OF H.J. RES. 40, TO GRANT THE RIGHT OF WAY TO THE MEMPHIS EL PASO AND PACIFIC R.R. CO. FROM EL PASO TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. (P. 196-2)
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 11 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 15 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 4 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 4 no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 4 no
- New York: 11 yes, 10 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 4 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 11 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: no member on this roll call
- California: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no
- Missouri: 2 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 4 yes, 1 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: 3 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 7 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Arkansas 3 yes, 0 no
California 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Augustus Sargent (Republican) — YEA
- James Augustus Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Beach Axtell (Democrat) — NAY
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Memorial Hamilton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Illinois 4 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert George Burr (Democrat) — NAY
- Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican) — NAY
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — YEA
- Jesse Hale Moore (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NAY
- John Baldwin Hawley (Republican) — YEA
- John Breese Hay (Republican) — NAY
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NAY
- John Montgomery Crebs (Democrat) — YEA
- Norman Buel Judd (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) — NAY
- Thompson Ware McNeely (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 8 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NAY
- James Noble Tyner (Republican) — YEA
- Jasper Packard (Republican) — YEA
- John Coburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican) — YEA
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
- William Williams (Republican) — YEA
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Boyd Winchester (Democrat) — YEA
- George Madison Adams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Shall Golladay (Democrat) — YEA
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — YEA
- James Proctor Knott (Democrat) — YEA
- John McConnell Rice (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Strother Trimble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Laurens Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- William Northcut Sweeney (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 4 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frisbie Hoar (Republican) — NAY
- Ginery Twichell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- James Buffinton (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — YEA
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 4 yes, 1 no
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Eugene Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Andrew Peters (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Lynch (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Plummer Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 2 yes, 4 no
Minnesota 1 yes, 1 no
Missouri 2 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Patterson Dyer (Republican) — NAY
- Erastus Wells (Democrat) — YEA
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg (Republican) — NAY
- James Robinson McCormick (Democrat) — YEA
- Joel Funk Asper (Republican) — NAY
- John Forbes Benjamin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett (Republican) — NAY
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Republican) — NAY
North Carolina 6 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no
- John Taffe (Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Benton (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Hart Ela (Republican) — YEA
New Jersey 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Haight (Democrat) — NAY
- John Hill (Republican) — YEA
- John Taylor Bird (Democrat) — YEA
- Orestes Cleveland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Moore (Republican) — YEA
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 11 yes, 10 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Addison Henry Laflin (Republican) — NAY
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner (Republican) — NAY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Knapp (Republican) — YEA
- Clarkson Nott Potter (Democrat) — NAY
- David Smith Bennett (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Dennis McCarthy (Republican) — NAY
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Cowles (Republican) — NAY
- George Woodward Greene (Democrat) — YEA
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Ward (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Augustus Reeves (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Warner Slocum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin (Democrat) — YEA
- James Brooks (Democrat) — NAY
- John Ashley Griswold (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Charles Churchill (Republican) — YEA
- John Fisher (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Fox (Democrat) — YEA
- John Godfrey Schumaker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NAY
- John Morrissey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Noah Davis (Republican) — NAY
- Orange Ferriss (Republican) — YEA
- Porter Sheldon (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Sanford (Republican) — NAY
- William Almon Wheeler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 12 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Eliakim Hastings Moore (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Morgan (Democrat) — YEA
- Jacob A. Ambler (Republican) — YEA
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James January Winans (Republican) — YEA
- Job Evans Stevenson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Armstrong Smith (Republican) — YEA
- John Beatty (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Thomas Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Welker (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Wilson Strader (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philadelph van Trump (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — YEA
- Truman Harrison Hoag (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hanford Upson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Lawrence (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Mungen (Democrat) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 11 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan (Republican) — NAY
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Myers van Auken (Democrat) — YEA
- Darwin Phelps (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Woodward (Democrat) — NAY
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Lutz Cake (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Lawrence Getz (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Scott Negley (Republican) — YEA
- John Black Packer (Republican) — NAY
- John Cessna (Republican) — NAY
- John Dodson Stiles (Democrat) — NAY
- John Moffet (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Roberts Reading (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Benton Donley (Republican) — NAY
- Oliver James Dickey (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — YEA
- Ulysses Mercur (Republican) — YEA
- Washington Townsend (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Hepburn Armstrong (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Allen Jenckes (Republican) — YEA
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 7 yes, 1 no
- Horace Maynard (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Tillman (Republican) — YEA
- Roderick Randum Butler (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Mayes Arnell (Republican) — YEA
- William Brickly Stokes (Republican) — YEA
- William Farrand Prosser (Republican) — NAY
- William Jay Smith (Republican) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Wisconsin 2 yes, 4 no
West Virginia 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Isaac Harding Duval (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Clark McGrew (Republican) — NAY
- John Seashoal Witcher (Republican) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 197 members
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