The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Senate recorded vote (47th Congress) · July 11, 1882
Recorded vote
TO ADJOURN. (P. 5904-1)
Procedural
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 map
How each state's senators voted
In 15 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 12 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 senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 1 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 1 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 2 no
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 1 no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Virginia: 1 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 2 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, 1 no
Colorado 0 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican) — NAY
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 2 yes, 0 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 1 yes, 1 no
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harrison (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Stuart Williams (Democrat) — YEA
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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Frisbie Hoar (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Black Groome (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eugene Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pierce Frye (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Graham Vest (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Zachariah George (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat) — NAY
- Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 1 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Joyce Sewell (Republican) — YEA
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Graham Fair (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 1 yes, 1 no
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — YEA
- John Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Harvey Slater (Democrat) — YEA
- La Fayette Grover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 0 no
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 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 1 yes, 1 no
Texas 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 1 yes, 1 no
Vermont 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 1 yes, 1 no
West Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Official records
Every vote, by name — 76 members
Select any member to pull their file.