The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 5538 BY REDUCING THE DUTY ON GUNPOWDER AND ALL EXPLOSIVES USED FOR MINING, BLASTING, ARTILLERY OR SPORTING PURPOSES, VALUED AT 20 CENTS OR LESS PER POUND, FROM 6 CENTS TO 4 CENTS PER POUND AND VA…
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 H.R. 5538
How each state's senators voted
In 12 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 17 every one voted no; 1 was 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, 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, 2 no
- Illinois: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 1 yes, 1 no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Florida: 0 yes, 1 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 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 0 yes, 2 no
Colorado 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor (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 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Saulsbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat) — NAY
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles William Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wilkinson Call (Democrat) — NAY
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Wilson McDill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NAY
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — YEA
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harrison (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 1 yes, 1 no
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, 2 no
Maryland 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Black Groome (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 2 no
Michigan 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Omar Dwight Conger (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas White Ferry (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Zachariah George (Democrat) — YEA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat) — YEA
Nebraska 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alvin Saunders (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — NOT VOTING
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 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 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham (Republican) — NAY
- Warner Miller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Harvey Slater (Democrat) — NAY
- La Fayette Grover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Donald Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Inscho Mitchell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican) — NAY
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat) — NAY
- Wade Hampton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Howell Edmunds Jackson (Democrat) — YEA
- Isham Green Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Warfield Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Mahone (Readjuster) — NOT VOTING
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, 2 no
West Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Johnson Newlon Camden (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 76 members
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