The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Senate recorded vote (49th Congress) · February 21, 1887
Recorded vote
TO ADJOURN OVER WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
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 7 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 21 every one voted no; 9 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, 1 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 2 no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 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, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 2 no
- Missouri: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 1 no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 1 no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 2 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, 2 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 1 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: 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 1 yes, 1 no
Arkansas 1 yes, 1 no
California 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Pease Williams (Republican) — NAY
- Leland Stanford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Saulsbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Gray (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 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 0 yes, 2 no
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, 2 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Biddle Eustis (Democrat) — NAY
- Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 0 yes, 2 no
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eugene Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pierce Frye (Republican) — NAY
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 1 yes, 1 no
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 2 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 2 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat) — NAY
- William Joyce Sewell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Graham Fair (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — NAY
New York 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Warner Miller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Maxwell Evarts (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 1 no
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Hipple Mitchell (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Donald Cameron (Republican) — YEA
- John Inscho Mitchell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jonathan Chace (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican) — YEA
South Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 1 yes, 1 no
Texas 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 1 yes, 1 no
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
West Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Edward Kenna (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Johnson Newlon Camden (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Official records
Every vote, by name — 76 members
Select any member to pull their file.