The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE TO 1ST WED. OF DECEMBER S. 1267, A BILL PROVIDING TO AID THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS BY AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF BONDS BEARING 4 % INTEREST IN EXCHANGE FOR UNITED STATES NOTES NOT EXCEEDING I…
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
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.
How each state's senators voted
In 16 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 13 every one voted no; 4 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 0 yes, 2 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 2 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 yes, 1 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Eliphaz Spencer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Goldthwaite (Democrat) — YEA
Arkansas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Powell Clayton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey (Republican) — NAY
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Augustus Sargent (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Booth (Ind. Republican) — YEA
Colorado 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Henry Barnum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Eaton (Democrat) — NAY
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Saulsbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 1 yes, 1 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Grover Wright (Republican) — YEA
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard James Oglesby (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Ewing McDonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Robertson Dennis (Democrat) — YEA
- William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) — NAY
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Windom (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Lusk Alcorn (Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat) — YEA
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican) — NAY
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Fitz Randolph (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Sharon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 0 yes, 2 no
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — NAY
Oregon 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Simon Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Andrew Wallace (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John James Patterson (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas James Robertson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 1 no
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
West Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 75 members
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