The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE PROCEDURE FOR CONSIDERATION TO CONSIDERATION OF H.J. RES. 96, A BILL PROVIDING FOR PROTECTION OF THE TEX. FRONTIER ON THE LOWER RIO GRANDE BY EXTENDING THE DEBATE TIME ON FIRST SEC. OF RESOLUTION …
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)
What was on the floor
No separate text document applies to this vote.
Every roll call on HJR96
How each state's members voted
In 6 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 15 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
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 4 yes, 9 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 6 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 12 yes, 12 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 5 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 6 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 6 yes, 15 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 2 no
- California: 1 yes, 3 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 8 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 2 no, 4 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 6 no
- Florida: 0 yes, 1 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.
Alabama 0 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Burwell Boykin Lewis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hays (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jeremiah Haralson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jeremiah Norman Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- John Henry Caldwell (Democrat) — NAY
- Taul Bradford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
California 1 yes, 3 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 2 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jesse Johnson Finley (Democrat) — NAY
- William James Purman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Richard Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Julian Hartridge (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Anthony Candler (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Cook (Democrat) — NAY
- William Ephraim Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- William Harrell Felton (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington McCrary (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Otis Pratt (Republican) — YEA
- James Wilson (Republican) — NAY
- James Wilson McDill (Republican) — YEA
- John Adam Kasson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Quincy Tufts (Republican) — YEA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Addison Oliver (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 4 yes, 9 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Campbell (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Carter Henry Harrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort (Republican) — YEA
- Horatio Chapin Burchard (Republican) — YEA
- John Courts Bagby (Democrat) — NAY
- John Rice Eden (Democrat) — NAY
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Henry Whiting (Republican) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks (Democrat) — NAY
- William Black Anderson (Independent) — NAY
- William Hartzell (Democrat) — NAY
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NAY
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 5 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Holman Hamilton (Democrat) — NAY
- Benoni Stinson Fuller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Franklin Landers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Douglas Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- James La Fayette Evans (Republican) — YEA
- Jeptha Dudley New (Democrat) — NAY
- John Harris Baker (Republican) — YEA
- Milton Stapp Robinson (Republican) — YEA
- Morton Craig Hunter (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Cason (Republican) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
- William Summerville Haymond (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 0 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Rechmond Boone (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles William Milliken (Democrat) — NAY
- James Proctor Knott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Blades Clarke (Democrat) — NAY
- John Daugherty White (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Young Brown (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Jameson Durham (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Laurens Jones (Democrat) — NAY
Louisiana 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edmund Nash (Republican) — YEA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall (Republican) — YEA
- Ezekiel John Ellis (Democrat) — NAY
- Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Brainerd Spencer (Democrat) — NAY
- William Mallory Levy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 3 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Winslow Harris (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Perkins Thompson (Democrat) — YEA
- Chester William Chapin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Frisbie Hoar (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Lillie Pierce (Republican) — YEA
- John Kemble Tarbox (Democrat) — NAY
- Julius Hawley Seelye (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Independent) — YEA
- William Wallace Crapo (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Wirt Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 0 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Boyle Roberts (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Eli Jones Henkle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Francis Thomas (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Swann (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William James O'Brien (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Walsh (Democrat) — NAY
Maine 4 yes, 0 no
Michigan 6 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Potter (Democrat) — YEA
- Alpheus Starkey Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- George Harman Durand (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Willard (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Waldron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jay Abel Hubbell (Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Ball Bradley (Republican) — YEA
- Omar Dwight Conger (Republican) — YEA
- William Brewster Williams (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Burton Strait (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Mark Hill Dunnell (Republican) — YEA
- William Smith King (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 0 yes, 8 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Morgan (Democrat) — NAY
- David Rea (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Charles Kehr (Democrat) — NAY
- Erastus Wells (Democrat) — NAY
- John Bullock Clark Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John Finis Philips (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Montgomery Glover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Rezin A. de Bolt (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Anthony Hatcher (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Stone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 0 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Guilford Wiley Wells (Ind. Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Roy Lynch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NAY
North Carolina 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Moore Scales (Democrat) — NAY
- Alfred Moore Waddell (Democrat) — NAY
- Jesse Johnson Yeates (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Adams Hyman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Jonathan Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Brank Vance (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Samuel Ashe (Democrat) — NAY
- William McKendree Robbins (Democrat) — NAY
Nebraska 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Lorenzo Crounse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frank Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry William Blair (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Newell Bell (Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus William Cutler (Democrat) — NAY
- Clement Hall Sinnickson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Halstead Teese (Democrat) — NAY
- Miles Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Hamilton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 12 yes, 12 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt (Democrat) — NAY
- Andrew Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Archibald Meserole Bliss (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Henry Adams (Republican) — YEA
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Ruthven Meade (Democrat) — NAY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Elias Warner Leavenworth (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Augustus Bagley (Republican) — YEA
- George Gilbert Hoskins (Republican) — YEA
- George Monroe Beebe (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Godfrey Schumaker (Democrat) — NAY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John Madison Davy (Republican) — YEA
- John Osborne Whitehouse (Democrat) — NAY
- Lyman Kidder Bass (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Ingham Townsend (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell (Democrat) — NAY
- Nelson Ira Norton (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Franklin Miller (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Scott Lord (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden (Ind. Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Smith Ely Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Collier Platt (Republican) — YEA
- William Almon Wheeler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Baker (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 6 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Americus Vespucius Rice (Democrat) — NAY
- Ansel Tracy Walling (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Foster (Republican) — YEA
- Earley Franklin Poppleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Hunt Hurd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry B. Payne (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Blackstone Banning (Democrat) — NAY
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — YEA
- James Monroe (Republican) — YEA
- John A. McMahon (Democrat) — NAY
- John Luther Vance (Democrat) — NAY
- John Simpson Savage (Democrat) — YEA
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lawrence Talbot Neal (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lorenzo Danford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Milton Isaiah Southard (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Sayler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Holmes van Vorhes (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 6 yes, 15 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Herr Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Alan Wood Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Albert Gallatin Egbert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran (Democrat) — NAY
- Chapman Freeman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Dolan Collins (Democrat) — NAY
- George Augustus Jenks (Democrat) — NAY
- Hiester Clymer (Democrat) — NAY
- Jacob Turney (Democrat) — NAY
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — NAY
- James Herron Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- James Sheakley (Democrat) — NAY
- John Black Packer (Republican) — YEA
- John Reilly (Democrat) — NAY
- John Robbins (Democrat) — NAY
- John Winfield Wallace (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Levi Augustus Mackey (Democrat) — NAY
- Levi Maish (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NAY
- Sobieski Ross (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Washington Townsend (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — NAY
- William Shearer Stenger (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Gibbs Dibrell (Democrat) — NAY
- Haywood Yancey Riddle (Democrat) — NAY
- Hiram Casey Young (Democrat) — NAY
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — NAY
- John Ford House (Democrat) — NAY
- John Morgan Bright (Democrat) — NAY
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McFarland (Democrat) — NAY
- William Parker Caldwell (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 0 yes, 6 no
Virginia 0 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Beverly Browne Douglas (Democrat) — NAY
- Eppa Hunton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Craighead Cabell (Democrat) — NAY
- Gilbert Carlton Walker (Democrat) — NAY
- John Goode Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John Randolph Tucker (Democrat) — NAY
- John Thomas Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Harrison Stowell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Terry (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Herbert Joyce (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Dudley Chase Denison (Ind. Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Whitman Hendee (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 1 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alanson Mellen Kimball (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Grandison Williams (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Cate (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Sterling Magoon (Republican) — YEA
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard (Democrat) — NAY
- William Pitt Lynde (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Hereford (Democrat) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 287 members
Select any member to pull their file.
