The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND S. 900 BY STIPULATING THAT THE COMMITTEE MAKE A FINAL REPORT BY JANUARY 1881, INSTEAD OF NOT LATER THAN DECEMBER 1881, THEREBY ADVANCING THE DATE. (P. 4116-2)
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)
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 S. 900
How each state's senators voted
In 16 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 16 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, 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no
- New York: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 2 no
- Missouri: 1 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 1 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 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 2 yes, 0 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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Thompson Farley (Democrat) — YEA
- Newton Booth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Moore Teller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Peter Hill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — YEA
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Ewing McDonald (Democrat) — YEA
Kansas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John James Ingalls (Republican) — NAY
- Preston B. Plumb (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Frisbie Hoar (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Black Groome (Democrat) — NAY
- 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 0 yes, 2 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican) — NAY
- William Windom (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — YEA
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 0 yes, 2 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Henry Rollins (Republican) — NAY
- Henry William Blair (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat) — NAY
- 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Kernan (Democrat) — NAY
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 2 yes, 0 no
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Harvey Slater (Democrat) — YEA
- La Fayette Grover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Donald Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Andrew Wallace (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Angus Cameron (Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Hale Carpenter (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
Every vote, by name — 76 members
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