The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.R. 199 (21 STAT L. 8, JUNE 10, 1879), A BILL AMENDING AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, PRESERVATION AND COMPLETION OF CERTAIN WORKS ON RIVERS AND HARBORS. (P. 1724-2)
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.
How each state's senators voted
In 18 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 7 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 0 yes, 2 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 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: 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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 2 yes, 0 no
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Thompson Farley (Democrat) — YEA
- Newton Booth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Moore Teller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Peter Hill (Republican) — YEA
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Eaton (Democrat) — NAY
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Brown Gordon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Ewing McDonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John James Ingalls (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Black Groome (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat) — YEA
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 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Graham Vest (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican) — YEA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alvin Saunders (Republican) — NAY
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, 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Donald Cameron (Republican) — YEA
- William Andrew Wallace (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wade Hampton (Democrat) — YEA
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Warfield Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Enoch Withers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Angus Cameron (Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 76 members
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