The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO TABLE AN APPEAL FROM THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR WHICH WAS TO ORDER PLACED IN THE JOURNAL THE NAMES OF MEMBERS PRESENT WHO REFUSED TO VOTE. (P. 178-2)
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 members voted
In 33 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 0 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: 4 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 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: 13 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 8 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 18 yes, 0 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 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: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 16 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 20 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 3 yes, 0 no
- Missouri: 4 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 7 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, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 0 no, 11 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 0 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Edward Cobb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Louis Washington Turpin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Clarke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Calvin Oates (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel West Peel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henderson Cate (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Jefferson de Haven (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph McKenna (Republican) — YEA
- 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 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Brown Penington (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Daniel Candler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Thomas Barnes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Kerr (Republican) — YEA
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Hurd Conger (Republican) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 13 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Augustus Hill (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Lawler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Everett Adams (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — YEA
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- William Ernest Mason (Republican) — YEA
- William Harrison Gest (Republican) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry O'Neall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Dale Owen (Republican) — YEA
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hugh Franklin Finley (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Griffin Carlisle (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) — NOT VOTING
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman (Republican) — YEA
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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) — NOT VOTING
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) — YEA
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Wilson Candler (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — YEA
- Rodney Wallace (Republican) — YEA
- William Cogswell (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Barnes Compton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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
Maine 4 yes, 0 no
Michigan 8 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Thomas Bliss (Republican) — YEA
- Byron M. Cutcheon (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Payson Allen (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Willis Wheeler (Republican) — YEA
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 4 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus (Republican) — YEA
- James Peter Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Frank (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Wade (Republican) — YEA
- William Joel Stone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Medcalf Kinsey (Republican) — YEA
Mississippi 0 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Chapman Levy Anderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Montana 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Rowland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — YEA
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Gregory Skinner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 3 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Dyer Beckwith (Republican) — YEA
- Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Lehlbach (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Buchanan (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Fowler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McAdoo (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 18 yes, 0 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Junius Knapp (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Simeon Baker (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Wilber (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Barretto Spinola (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Lansing (Republican) — YEA
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — YEA
- James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — YEA
- John Gilbert Sawyer (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry McCarthy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Moffitt (Republican) — YEA
- John McClure Wiley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McCreath Farquhar (Republican) — YEA
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Quinn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Raines (Republican) — YEA
- John Sanford (Republican) — YEA
- Milton de Lano (Republican) — YEA
- Moses Dunning Stivers (Republican) — YEA
- Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Schmeck Flood (Republican) — YEA
- William Copeland Wallace (Republican) — YEA
- William Grant Laidlaw (Republican) — YEA
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 16 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Clifton Thompson (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Butterworth (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Preston Wickham (Republican) — YEA
- Elihu Stephen Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- George Ebbert Seney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Lee Morey (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley (Republican) — YEA
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Luther Smyser (Republican) — YEA
- Melvin Morella Boothman (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Patterson Kennedy (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel S. Yoder (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican) — YEA
- William Craig Cooper (Republican) — YEA
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKinley Jr. (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 20 yes, 0 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) — NOT VOTING
- James Kerr (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Dalzell (Republican) — YEA
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Warren Ray (Republican) — YEA
- Levi Maish (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Findlay Watson (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — YEA
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — YEA
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Morris Yardley (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Alfred Craig (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Smedley Darlington (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican) — YEA
- William Constantine Culbertson (Republican) — YEA
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Dargan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Sproull Cothran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Hemphill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Dibble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Hayne Perry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Evans (Republican) — YEA
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Hare (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Carrington Venable (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Edwin Bowden (Republican) — YEA
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
Washington 1 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Benjamin Clark (Republican) — YEA
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Whitbeck van Schaick (Republican) — YEA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Myron Hawley McCord (Republican) — YEA
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — YEA
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Marion la Follette (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- James Monroe Jackson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 330 members
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