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TO ADOPT THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCE ON S. 389. (P. 5949)
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 S. 389
How each state's members voted
In 26 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 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 members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: 1 yes, 0 no
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 1 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 5 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 12 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 6 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 15 yes, 1 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 9 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 9 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 20 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- California: 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 3 yes, 0 no
- Missouri: 3 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 5 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, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Democrat) — NAY
- John Henry Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Porter Featherstone (Union Labor) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel West Peel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat) — NAY
California 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- John Jefferson de Haven (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph McKenna (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marion Biggs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Vandever (Republican) — YEA
- William W. Morrow (Republican) — YEA
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Russell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Miles (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Washington Frederick Willcox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Edgar Simonds (Republican) — YEA
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Bullock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Daniel Candler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat) — NAY
- George Thomas Barnes (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Hull Carlton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John David Stewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Judson Claudius Clements (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes (Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Kerr (Republican) — YEA
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Hurd Conger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac S. Struble (Republican) — YEA
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — YEA
- John Fletcher Lacey (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Gear (Republican) — YEA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Sweney (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Rea Reed (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — YEA
Illinois 12 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Augustus Hill (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Lawler (Democrat) — YEA
- George Everett Adams (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — YEA
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- William Ernest Mason (Republican) — YEA
- William Harrison Gest (Republican) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NAY
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 9 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry O'Neall (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Dale Owen (Republican) — YEA
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — YEA
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 2 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — NAY
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — NAY
- Hugh Franklin Finley (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — NAY
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — NAY
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson (Democrat) — NAY
Massachusetts 9 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Williams Rockwell (Republican) — YEA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) — YEA
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Wilson Candler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — YEA
- Rodney Wallace (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Cogswell (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Hopper Gibson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Stump (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Louis Emory McComas (Republican) — YEA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd (Republican) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Boutelle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 6 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Thomas Bliss (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Byron M. Cutcheon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Payson Allen (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Willis Wheeler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — YEA
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — YEA
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Mark Spencer Brewer (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 5 yes, 0 no
Missouri 3 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — NAY
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Peter Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — NAY
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Frank (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Wade (Republican) — YEA
- William Joel Stone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Medcalf Kinsey (Republican) — YEA
Mississippi 0 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Chapman Levy Anderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clarke Lewis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Bright Morgan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Mills Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Montana 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Rowland (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Washington McClammy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Glover Ewart (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican) — YEA
- John Morehead Brower (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Gregory Skinner (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat) — NAY
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 3 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alonzo Nute (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orren Cheney Moore (Republican) — YEA
New Jersey 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Dyer Beckwith (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Lehlbach (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — YEA
- James Buchanan (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Fowler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McAdoo (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 15 yes, 1 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Turner (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Junius Knapp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Simeon Baker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Campbell (Democrat) — YEA
- Francis Barretto Spinola (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Lansing (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — YEA
- James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Gilbert Sawyer (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry McCarthy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Moffitt (Republican) — YEA
- John McClure Wiley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McCreath Farquhar (Republican) — YEA
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Quinn (Democrat) — YEA
- John Raines (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sanford (Republican) — YEA
- Milton de Lano (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Dunning Stivers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Schmeck Flood (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Copeland Wallace (Republican) — YEA
- William Grant Laidlaw (Republican) — YEA
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 12 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Clifton Thompson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Butterworth (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Preston Wickham (Republican) — YEA
- Elihu Stephen Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Ebbert Seney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Lee Morey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley (Republican) — YEA
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Luther Smyser (Republican) — YEA
- Melvin Morella Boothman (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Patterson Kennedy (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel S. Yoder (Democrat) — YEA
- Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican) — YEA
- William Craig Cooper (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKinley Jr. (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 20 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Champlain Townsend (Republican) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Scull (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Clay McCormick (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
- James Kerr (Democrat) — YEA
- John Dalzell (Republican) — YEA
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Warren Ray (Republican) — YEA
- Levi Maish (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Findlay Watson (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — YEA
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — YEA
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Vaux (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Morris Yardley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Alfred Craig (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Smedley Darlington (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican) — YEA
- William Constantine Culbertson (Republican) — YEA
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Joshua Spooner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Warren Otis Arnold (Republican) — YEA
South Carolina 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat) — NAY
- George William Dargan (Democrat) — NAY
- James Sproull Cothran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Hemphill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Dibble (Democrat) — NAY
- William Elliott (Democrat) — NAY
- William Hayne Perry (Democrat) — NAY
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — NAY
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Evans (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — NAY
- James Phelan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican) — YEA
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 0 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — NAY
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — NAY
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — NAY
- Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — NAY
- Silas Hare (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 2 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — NAY
- Edmund Waddill Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Carrington Venable (Democrat) — NAY
- George Edwin Bowden (Republican) — YEA
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Wolcott Stewart (Republican) — YEA
- William Wallace Grout (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Washington 1 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Benjamin Clark (Republican) — YEA
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Whitbeck van Schaick (Republican) — YEA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — YEA
- Myron Hawley McCord (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — YEA
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Marion la Follette (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Brooks Smith (Republican) — YEA
- George Wesley Atkinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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