The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION REGARDING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE OF FEB. 17, 1872 ON THE APPROPRIATION OF MAR. 3, 1891, FOR PAYMENT OF THE CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS FOR THEIR INTEREST IN THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPHAHOE …
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 20 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 20 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, 1 no, 3 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Idaho: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Montana: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 1 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 9 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 4 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 14 yes, 3 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 5 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wyoming: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 4 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 6 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 13 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 11 yes, 5 no, 12 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- California: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 9 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 3 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 3 yes, 1 no
- Virginia: 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no, 4 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: 5 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 5 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 5 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 3 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 6 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 2 yes, 0 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 3 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Edward Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
- John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Washington Turpin (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Henry Clarke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Calvin Oates (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 5 yes, 0 no
California 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Russell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Sperry (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Elliott de Forest (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Washington Frederick Willcox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 3 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NAY
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NAY
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert William Everett (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Edward Watson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Elisha Winn (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 4 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Edward White (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Perkins (Republican) — YEA
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Joseph Seerley (Democrat) — YEA
- John Taylor Hamilton (Democrat) — NAY
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Bowman (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Halben Butler (Democrat) — NAY
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Idaho 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Willis Sweet (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 9 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Taylor Cable (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — NAY
- Herman Wilber Snow (Democrat) — NAY
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Steward (Democrat) — NAY
- Owen Scott (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Thompson Busey (Democrat) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Cass Newberry (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — YEA
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 6 yes, 3 no, 4 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
- Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Henry Patton (Democrat) — NAY
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican) — YEA
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lewis Bretz (Democrat) — YEA
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — NAY
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 5 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Hutchinson Clover (Populist) — YEA
- Case Broderick (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Hogue Funston (Republican) — YEA
- Jeremiah Simpson (Populist) — YEA
- John Davis (Populist) — NAY
- John Grant Otis (Populist) — YEA
- William Baker (Populist) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 3 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Morgan Kendall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- W. W. Dickerson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — YEA
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 5 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 5 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Spaulding Coolidge (Democrat) — YEA
- George Fred Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Crawford Crosby (Democrat) — YEA
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherman Hoar (Democrat) — YEA
- William Cogswell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Barnes Compton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Stump (Democrat) — YEA
- Isidor Rayner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Brewer Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McMahon McKaig (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Boutelle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 4 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Byron Gray Stout (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — YEA
- Harrison H. Wheeler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Melville Youmans (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — NAY
- James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — YEA
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Minnesota 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Nathan Castle (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lind (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Kittel Halvorson (Populist) — NAY
- Osee Matson Hall (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Harries (Democrat) — NAY
Missouri 9 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — NAY
- David Albaugh de Armond (Democrat) — YEA
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — YEA
- John Joseph O'Neill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — YEA
- Marshall Arnold (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Byrns (Democrat) — YEA
- Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clarke Lewis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Curtis Kyle (Democrat) — NAY
- John Mills Allen (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Beeman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat) — YEA
Montana 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Grady (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican) — YEA
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander (Democrat) — YEA
- William Augustus Blount Branch (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Thomas Crawford (Democrat) — NAY
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Omer Madison Kem (Populist) — YEA
- William Arthur McKeighan (Populist) — YEA
- William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican) — NAY
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — YEA
- James Buchanan (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Fowler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dunn English (Democrat) — YEA
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Franklin Bartine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 14 yes, 3 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — YEA
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NAY
- George van Horn (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bacon (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Wilbur Bentley (Democrat) — YEA
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — YEA
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — YEA
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John De Witt Warner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Madison Wever (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — YEA
- John R. Fellows (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Raines (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sanford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph James Little (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Martin Curtis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy John Campbell (Democrat) — YEA
- Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican) — YEA
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — YEA
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Jerome Coombs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 13 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jackson Pearson (Democrat) — NAY
- Bellamy Storer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Darius Dodge Hare (Democrat) — NAY
- Dennis D. Donovan (Democrat) — YEA
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Houk (Democrat) — YEA
- James Irvine Dungan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John M. Pattison (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Philip Ohliger (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Kissinger Gantz (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Eachus Doan (Republican) — YEA
- Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Vincent Albert Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Enochs (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Binger Hermann (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 11 yes, 5 no, 12 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Cole Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Warren Stone (Republican) — YEA
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Scull (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Hallowell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Eugene Pierce Gillespie (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — NAY
- George Franklin Huff (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frederic Kribbs (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Shonk (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Buchanan Robinson (Republican) — NAY
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Amerman (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — YEA
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Griswold (Republican) — NAY
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Simon Peter Wolverton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexis Stone (Republican) — NAY
- William Allen Sipe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McAleer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat) — YEA
- George Johnstone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Shell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Hemphill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lowndes McLaurin (Democrat) — YEA
- William Elliott (Democrat) — NAY
- William Huggins Brawley (Democrat) — YEA
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 4 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — YEA
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat) — NAY
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Chiles Houk (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Patterson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 6 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — YEA
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — NAY
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — YEA
- Edwin Le Roy Antony (Democrat) — YEA
- John Benjamin Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — YEA
- Elisha Edward Meredith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — YEA
- James Fletcher Epes (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Lawson (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Atkinson Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Henry Powers (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
- Allen Ralph Bushnell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — YEA
- Clinton Babbitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Potter Coburn (Democrat) — YEA
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat) — YEA
- Lucas Miltiades Miller (Democrat) — YEA
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lynch (Democrat) — YEA
West Virginia 3 yes, 1 no
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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