The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADJOURN, MADE DURING DEBATE ON S. 79, IN ORDER TO TERMINATE DEBATE ON A MOTION TO RECONSIDER VOTE WHEREBY THE SENATE POSTPONED SAID BILL INDEFINITELY. (P. 1118-2, 1119-2)
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)
How each state's senators voted
In 15 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 14 every one voted no; 2 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, 0 no, 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 2 yes, 0 no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 2 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 2 yes, 0 no
- Missouri: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 2 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 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.
Alabama 0 yes, 2 no
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James David Walker (Democrat) — YEA
California 0 yes, 2 no
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Moore Teller (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Peter Hill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles William Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- Wilkinson Call (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — NAY
- John Brown Gordon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Republican) — YEA
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 2 yes, 0 no
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John James Ingalls (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Preston B. Plumb (Republican) — YEA
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas (Democrat) — YEA
- William Pitt Kellogg (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Black Groome (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Windom (Republican) — YEA
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat) — YEA
- Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 2 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Sharon (Republican) — YEA
New York 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Kernan (Democrat) — NAY
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat) — YEA
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Harvey Slater (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- La Fayette Grover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 1 no
Rhode Island 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wade Hampton (Democrat) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Isham Green Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Edmund Bailey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Richard Coke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat) — NAY
Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Warfield Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Enoch Withers (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NAY
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Angus Cameron (Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frank Hereford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 76 members
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