The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES, BY ADDING THE CLAUSE, "THAT IT SHALL BE IN ORDER WHEN ANY GENERAL PENSION BILL, EITHER FOR GRANTS OR INCREASE TO PERSONS NOT PREVIOUSLY ENTITLED, IS UNDER CONSIDE…
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 7 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 17 every one voted no; 16 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: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 no
- Washington: 0 yes, 1 no
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Dakota: 0 yes, 1 no
- Minnesota: 0 yes, 5 no
- Illinois: 1 yes, 17 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 10 no
- New York: 8 yes, 19 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: 0 yes, 2 no
- Iowa: 1 yes, 10 no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 15 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 20 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 8 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 6 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 2 no, 1 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: 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 6 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 7 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 11 yes, 0 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 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — YEA
- James Edward Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Washington Turpin (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Henry Clarke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Calvin Oates (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
California 0 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- John Jefferson de Haven (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph McKenna (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marion Biggs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Vandever (Republican) — NAY
- William W. Morrow (Republican) — NAY
Colorado 0 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
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 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Daniel Candler (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat) — YEA
- George Thomas Barnes (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Hull Carlton (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — YEA
- John David Stewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Judson Claudius Clements (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 1 yes, 10 no
- Daniel Kerr (Republican) — NAY
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Hurd Conger (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac S. Struble (Republican) — NAY
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — NAY
- John Fletcher Lacey (Republican) — NAY
- John Henry Gear (Republican) — NAY
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Henry Sweney (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Rea Reed (Republican) — NAY
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — YEA
Illinois 1 yes, 17 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Augustus Hill (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Lawler (Democrat) — NAY
- George Everett Adams (Republican) — NAY
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — NAY
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — NAY
- Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican) — NAY
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — NAY
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NAY
- William Ernest Mason (Republican) — NAY
- William Harrison Gest (Republican) — NAY
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NAY
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 8 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — YEA
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry O'Neall (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican) — NAY
- William Dale Owen (Republican) — NAY
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — YEA
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 6 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — YEA
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — YEA
- Hugh Franklin Finley (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — YEA
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — YEA
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — YEA
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat) — YEA
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman (Republican) — NAY
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — NAY
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Williams Rockwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) — NAY
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — NAY
- John Wilson Candler (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — NAY
- Rodney Wallace (Republican) — NAY
- William Cogswell (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 1 yes, 10 no
- Aaron Thomas Bliss (Republican) — NAY
- Byron M. Cutcheon (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Payson Allen (Republican) — NAY
- Frank Willis Wheeler (Republican) — NAY
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — NAY
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — NAY
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NAY
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — YEA
- Mark Spencer Brewer (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — NAY
Minnesota 0 yes, 5 no
Missouri 8 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus (Republican) — NAY
- James Peter Walker (Democrat) — YEA
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — NAY
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — YEA
- Nathan Frank (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Wade (Republican) — NAY
- William Joel Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- William Medcalf Kinsey (Republican) — NAY
Mississippi 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Chapman Levy Anderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — YEA
- Clarke Lewis (Democrat) — YEA
- James Bright Morgan (Democrat) — YEA
- John Mills Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Montana 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Thomas Henry Carter (Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 2 yes, 3 no, 4 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) — NAY
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican) — NAY
- John Morehead Brower (Republican) — NAY
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Gregory Skinner (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat) — YEA
North Dakota 0 yes, 1 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 8 yes, 19 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — YEA
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Henry Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Junius Knapp (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Simeon Baker (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — NAY
- David Wilber (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Barretto Spinola (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick Lansing (Republican) — NAY
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — NAY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican) — NAY
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — YEA
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Gilbert Sawyer (Republican) — NAY
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NAY
- John Henry McCarthy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Moffitt (Republican) — NAY
- John McClure Wiley (Democrat) — YEA
- John McCreath Farquhar (Republican) — NAY
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Quinn (Democrat) — YEA
- John Raines (Republican) — NAY
- John Sanford (Republican) — NAY
- Milton de Lano (Republican) — NAY
- Moses Dunning Stivers (Republican) — NAY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Schmeck Flood (Republican) — NAY
- William Copeland Wallace (Republican) — NAY
- William Grant Laidlaw (Republican) — NAY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 0 yes, 15 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Clifton Thompson (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Butterworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Preston Wickham (Republican) — NAY
- Elihu Stephen Williams (Republican) — NAY
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- George Ebbert Seney (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Lee Morey (Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley (Republican) — NAY
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Luther Smyser (Republican) — NAY
- Melvin Morella Boothman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Patterson Kennedy (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel S. Yoder (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican) — NAY
- William Craig Cooper (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKinley Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 20 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Champlain Townsend (Republican) — NAY
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Scull (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Clay McCormick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — NAY
- James Kerr (Democrat) — NAY
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NAY
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Warren Ray (Republican) — NAY
- Levi Maish (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Findlay Watson (Republican) — NAY
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — NAY
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — NAY
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Morris Yardley (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Alfred Craig (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Smedley Darlington (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican) — NAY
- William Constantine Culbertson (Republican) — NAY
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Joshua Spooner (Republican) — NAY
- Warren Otis Arnold (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 7 yes, 0 no
South Dakota 0 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 6 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — YEA
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Clay Evans (Republican) — NAY
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Phelan (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican) — NAY
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — YEA
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 11 yes, 0 no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — YEA
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — YEA
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — YEA
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — YEA
- Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- Silas Hare (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Carrington Venable (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — YEA
- George Edwin Bowden (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — YEA
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Washington 0 yes, 1 no
Wisconsin 1 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Benjamin Clark (Republican) — NAY
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Whitbeck van Schaick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — NAY
- Myron Hawley McCord (Republican) — NAY
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — NAY
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Marion la Follette (Republican) — NAY
West Virginia 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Brooks Smith (Republican) — NAY
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 329 members
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