The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO SUSTAIN THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR THAT AN AMENDMENT TO S. 2238 IS GENERAL LEGISLATION, AND WAS NOT IN ORDER AT THIS TIME.
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)
How each state's senators voted
In 13 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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, 1 no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 1 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 2 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat) — NAY
- John Tyler Morgan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat) — YEA
- James David Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Thompson Farley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin Miller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Saulsbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 2 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Wilson McDill (Republican) — YEA
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 1 yes, 1 no
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 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Stuart Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas (Democrat) — NAY
- 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 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Eugene Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pierce Frye (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Omar Dwight Conger (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas White Ferry (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Joyce Sewell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Graham Fair (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — YEA
New York 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Warner Miller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Harvey Slater (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- La Fayette Grover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Donald Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Inscho Mitchell (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wade Hampton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Howell Edmunds Jackson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isham Green Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Richard Coke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Warfield Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Mahone (Readjuster) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — YEA
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 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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