The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO LAY ASIDE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4592, A BILL FACILITATING THE REFUNDING OF THE NATIONAL DEBT, IN ORDER TO CONSIDER REVENUE BILLS.
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
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.
Every roll call on H.R. 4592
How each state's members voted
In 15 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 15 every one voted no; 7 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, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 3 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: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 6 yes, 9 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 3 yes, 14 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 7 no, 4 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: 3 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 6 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 6 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 20 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no
- Missouri: 9 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 7 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 4 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, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 6 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 5 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 6 yes, 0 no
- Florida: 2 yes, 0 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Burwell Boykin Lewis (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Miller Shelley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hord Herndon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — YEA
- William James Samford (Democrat) — YEA
- William Manning Lowe (National Greenbacker) — YEA
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jordan Edgar Cravens (Democrat) — YEA
- Poindexter Dunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Montague Gunter (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ferguson Slemons (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Campbell Polson Berry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Davis (Republican) — NAY
- Horace Francis Page (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Romualdo Pacheco (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 0 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Miles (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Phelps (Democrat) — NAY
- John Turner Wait (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Livingston Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 5 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Emory Speer (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Persons (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Calhoun Nicholls (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Job Hammond (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Cook (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ephraim Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrell Felton (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 3 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Hooker Gillette (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Hiram Price (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Baird Weaver (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Moses Ayers McCoid (Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Updegraff (Republican) — NAY
- William Fletcher Sapp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William George Thompson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 6 yes, 9 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson (Democrat) — YEA
- Albert Palaska Forsythe (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh (Republican) — NAY
- George Royal Davis (Republican) — NAY
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hiram Barber Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- James Washington Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Crocker Sherwin (Republican) — NAY
- John Robert Thomas (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — NAY
- Philip Cornelius Hayes (Republican) — NAY
- Richard Wellington Townshend (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Moffett Allison Hawk (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Alexander Boyd (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Aldrich (Republican) — YEA
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 6 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Jonathan Hostetler (Democrat) — YEA
- Calvin Cowgill (Republican) — NAY
- George Augustus Bicknell (Democrat) — YEA
- Gilbert de la Matyr (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NAY
- Jeptha Dudley New (Democrat) — YEA
- John Harris Baker (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Reed Cobb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick (Democrat) — YEA
- William Heilman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Calkins (Republican) — YEA
- William Ralph Myers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Dudley Chase Haskell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Anderson (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Ryan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Shelby Willis (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Conner Phister (Democrat) — YEA
- James Andrew McKenzie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Proctor Knott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Caldwell (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oscar Turner (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Edward White Robertson (Democrat) — NAY
- Ezekiel John Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Floyd King (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Barton Elam (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hayes Acklen (Democrat) — NAY
- Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat) — NAY
Massachusetts 0 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Norcross (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Winslow Harris (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Bailey Loring (Republican) — NAY
- George Dexter Robinson (Republican) — NAY
- Leopold Morse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Selwyn Zadock Bowman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Walbridge Abner Field (Republican) — NAY
- William Augustus Russell (Republican) — NAY
- William Claflin (Republican) — NAY
- William Wallace Crapo (Republican) — NAY
- William Whitney Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Maynadier Henry (Democrat) — YEA
- Eli Jones Henkle (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Milton George Urner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Milligan McLane (Democrat) — YEA
- William Kimmel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 0 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edwin Willits (Republican) — NAY
- Jay Abel Hubbell (Republican) — NAY
- John Stoughton Newberry (Republican) — NAY
- John Wesley Stone (Republican) — NAY
- Jonas Hartzell McGowan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NAY
- Mark Spencer Brewer (Republican) — NAY
- Omar Dwight Conger (Republican) — NAY
- Roswell Gilbert Horr (Republican) — NAY
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Poehler (Democrat) — YEA
- Mark Hill Dunnell (Republican) — YEA
- William Drew Washburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 9 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner (Democrat) — YEA
- Erastus Wells (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Gideon Frank Rothwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Richard Waddill (Democrat) — YEA
- John Bullock Clark Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- John Finis Philips (Democrat) — YEA
- Lowndes Henry Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Linn Clardy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Ford (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Richard Graham Frost (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Locke Sawyer (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 6 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Moore Scales (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Lindsay Russell (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph John Martin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Jonathan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Brank Vance (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Franklin Armfield (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Leak Steele (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hodges Kitchin (Democrat) — YEA
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 3 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alvah Augustus Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Voorhis (Republican) — NAY
- George Maxwell Robeson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hezekiah Bradley Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- John Lauris Blake (Republican) — NAY
- Lewis Alexander Brigham (Republican) — NAY
- Miles Ross (Democrat) — NAY
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 3 yes, 14 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Amaziah Bailey James (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Anson George McCook (Republican) — NAY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Cyrus Dan Prescott (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel O'Reilly (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Plunket Richardson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Wilber (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Einstein (Republican) — NAY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Hiscock (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — NAY
- James O'Brien (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NAY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight (Republican) — NAY
- John Hammond (Republican) — NAY
- John Henry Camp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NAY
- John Henry Starin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Mosher Bailey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John van Voorhis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John William Ferdon (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Mason (Republican) — NAY
- Levi Parsons Morton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Muller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ray Vaughn Pierce (Republican) — NAY
- Richard Crowley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden (Republican) — NAY
- Waldo Hutchins (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Abbott Wood (Republican) — NAY
- Warner Miller (Republican) — NAY
- William Lounsbery (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 6 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Adoniram Judson Warner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Townsend (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Butterworth (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Le Fevre (Democrat) — YEA
- Ebenezer Byron Finley (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Hunt Hurd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Leroy Converse (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Geddes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Gibson Atherton (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Luther Dickey (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Safford Neal (Republican) — NAY
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — NAY
- James Monroe (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John A. McMahon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Warren Keifer (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Ewing (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lowry Young (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William David Hill (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKinley Jr. (Republican) — NAY
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 20 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Herr Smith (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (Democrat) — NAY
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — NAY
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Overton Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — NAY
- Harry White (Republican) — NAY
- Hendrick Bradley Wright (National Greenbacker) — NAY
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- Hiester Clymer (Democrat) — NAY
- Horatio Gates Fisher (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James H. Osmer (Republican) — NAY
- John Inscho Mitchell (Republican) — NAY
- John Walker Ryon (Democrat) — NAY
- John Weinland Killinger (Republican) — NAY
- Morgan Ringland Wise (Democrat) — NAY
- Reuben Knecht Bachman (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Klotz (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Russell Errett (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Bernard Dick (Republican) — NAY
- Seth Hartman Yocum (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican) — NAY
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — NAY
- William Godshalk (Republican) — NAY
- William Shadrack Shallenberger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Ward (Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 7 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Bryson Simonton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Gibbs Dibrell (Democrat) — YEA
- Hiram Casey Young (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — YEA
- John Ford House (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Morgan Bright (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Love Taylor (Democrat) — YEA
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 6 yes, 0 no
Virginia 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Eppa Hunton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Craighead Cabell (Democrat) — YEA
- James Buchanan Richmond (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Goode Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Randolph Tucker (Democrat) — YEA
- John Thomas Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Eggleston Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Jorgensen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Bradley Barlow (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Herbert Joyce (Republican) — NAY
- James Manning Tyler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Grandison Williams (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (Democrat) — NAY
- Gabriel Bouck (Democrat) — NAY
- George Cochrane Hazelton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Leon Humphrey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — NAY
- Peter Victor Deuster (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Edward Kenna (Democrat) — YEA
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