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House recorded vote (41st Congress) · July 1, 1870
H.R. 2167

Recorded vote

TO AMEND H.R. 2167, A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE REFUNDING AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, BY STRIKING OUT THE WORDS "COIN IN THE TREASURY OF THE U.S." AND INSERT "U.S. NOTES IN THE T…

Amendment
01
The question

The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.

02
The tally

The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.

03
The people

Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.

The official record
  • 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).
The tally

How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)

The measure itself

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.

Same measure, other votes

Every roll call on H.R. 2167

July 1, 1870 · TO AMEND H.R. 2167 BY STIPULATING THAT NO INT… · 54–98 July 1, 1870 · TO PASS H.R. 2167. (P. 4105) · 128–43
The map

How each state's members voted

In 2 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 19 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
  1. Alaska: no member on this roll call
  2. Maine: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
  3. Vermont: 0 yes, 3 no
  4. New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  5. Washington: no member on this roll call
  6. Idaho: no member on this roll call
  7. Montana: no member on this roll call
  8. North Dakota: no member on this roll call
  9. Minnesota: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  10. Illinois: 4 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
  11. Wisconsin: 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  12. Michigan: 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  13. New York: 3 yes, 17 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
  14. Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  15. Massachusetts: 0 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
  16. Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no
  17. Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
  18. Wyoming: no member on this roll call
  19. South Dakota: no member on this roll call
  20. Iowa: 0 yes, 6 no
  21. Indiana: 8 yes, 3 no
  22. Ohio: 5 yes, 11 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
  23. Pennsylvania: 3 yes, 14 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
  24. New Jersey: 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  25. Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
  26. California: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  27. Utah: no member on this roll call
  28. Colorado: no member on this roll call
  29. Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no
  30. Missouri: 2 yes, 7 no
  31. Kentucky: 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  32. West Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
  33. Virginia: 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
  34. Maryland: 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  35. Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  36. Arizona: no member on this roll call
  37. New Mexico: no member on this roll call
  38. Kansas: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  39. Arkansas: 1 yes, 2 no
  40. Tennessee: 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
  41. North Carolina: 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  42. South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
  43. District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
  44. Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
  45. Louisiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  46. Mississippi: 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
  47. Alabama: 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  48. Georgia: no member on this roll call
  49. Hawaii: no member on this roll call
  50. Texas: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
  51. 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.

California 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no

Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Kansas 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Maryland 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Maine 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no

Minnesota 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Mississippi 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no

Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no

New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

New Jersey 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

Nevada 0 yes, 1 no

Oregon 1 yes, 0 no

Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no

South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no

West Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no

Official records

Every vote, by name — 230 members

Select any member to pull their file.