The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Senate recorded vote (45th Congress) · June 12, 1878
HJR176
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE CONSIDERATION OF H.J.R. 176.
Bill action
The tally
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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
No separate text document applies to this vote.
Same measure, other votes
Every roll call on HJR176
The map
How each state's senators voted
In 17 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 8 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: 1 yes, 0 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, 2 no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 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, 2 no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 1 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 2 no
- Missouri: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 2 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 0 yes, 2 no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 1 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 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 1 yes, 1 no
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey (Republican) — YEA
California 1 yes, 1 no
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Moore Teller (Republican) — YEA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Henry Barnum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Eaton (Democrat) — YEA
Delaware 2 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles William Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Simon Barclay Conover (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Brown Gordon (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Republican) — YEA
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Richard James Oglesby (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 0 yes, 2 no
Kansas 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Clay McCreery (Democrat) — YEA
Louisiana 1 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) — NOT VOTING
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — NAY
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 2 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Fitz Randolph (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — NAY
- William Sharon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Kernan (Democrat) — YEA
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stanley Matthews (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Donald Cameron (Republican) — NAY
- William Andrew Wallace (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Angus Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Otis Howe (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frank Hereford (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Official records
Every vote, by name — 76 members
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