The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Senate recorded vote (47th Congress) · April 4, 1881
Recorded vote
TO AMEND A MOTION TO ADJOURN, BY EXTENDING ADJOURNMENT FROM 10 A.M. TOMORROW UNTIL 11 A.M. TOMORROW. (P. 188-2)
Amendment
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 14 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 14 every one voted no; 5 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, 2 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no
- New York: 0 yes, 2 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 1 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no
- Delaware: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James David Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 1 no
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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — NAY
Delaware 2 yes, 0 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Wilson McDill (Republican) — NAY
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harrison (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — YEA
- John Stuart Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no
Maine 0 yes, 2 no
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat) — YEA
- George Graham Vest (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Zachariah George (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — YEA
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alvin Saunders (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 1 no
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 0 yes, 2 no
Ohio 1 yes, 1 no
Oregon 2 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 2 no
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Richard Coke (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 0 yes, 2 no
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Johnson Newlon Camden (Democrat) — YEA
Official records
Every vote, by name — 76 members
Select any member to pull their file.