The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO RESOLVE INTO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING BILLS ON THE PRIVATE CALENDAR ACCORDING TO RULES OF THE HOUSES (P.544-1)
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 22 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 15 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, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Idaho: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Montana: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Dakota: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Minnesota: 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 11 yes, 3 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 4 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 4 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 11 yes, 3 no, 19 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 2 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Iowa: 4 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 7 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 8 yes, 2 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 12 yes, 2 no, 14 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 7 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 1 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: 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 5 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 8 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 yes, 0 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 3 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Edward Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Louis Washington Turpin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Clarke (Democrat) — YEA
- William Calvin Oates (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 5 yes, 0 no
California 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Caminetti (Democrat) — YEA
- Eugene Francis Loud (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Tyler Cutting (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Greeley Hilborn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas J. Geary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Bowers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hosea Townsend (Republican) — NOT VOTING
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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Bullock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — YEA
Georgia 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert William Everett (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Edward Watson (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Elisha Winn (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 4 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Edward White (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Perkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Joseph Seerley (Democrat) — YEA
- John Taylor Hamilton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Bowman (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Halben Butler (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Idaho 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Willis Sweet (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 11 yes, 3 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Taylor Cable (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Wilber Snow (Democrat) — YEA
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Steward (Democrat) — YEA
- Owen Scott (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Thompson Busey (Democrat) — NAY
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Cass Newberry (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — YEA
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 7 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican) — YEA
- David Henry Patton (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lewis Bretz (Democrat) — NAY
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — YEA
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Hutchinson Clover (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- Case Broderick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Hogue Funston (Republican) — NAY
- Jeremiah Simpson (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- John Davis (Populist) — YEA
- John Grant Otis (Populist) — YEA
- William Baker (Populist) — YEA
Kentucky 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — YEA
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Morgan Kendall (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — YEA
- W. W. Dickerson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — YEA
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — YEA
Louisiana 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 2 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Spaulding Coolidge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Fred Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) — NAY
- John Crawford Crosby (Democrat) — YEA
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NAY
- Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherman Hoar (Democrat) — YEA
- William Cogswell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Barnes Compton (Democrat) — YEA
- Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Stump (Democrat) — YEA
- Isidor Rayner (Democrat) — NAY
- John Brewer Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- William McMahon McKaig (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Boutelle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 4 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Byron Gray Stout (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — NAY
- Harrison H. Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Melville Youmans (Democrat) — NAY
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — NAY
- James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NAY
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat) — NAY
Minnesota 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Nathan Castle (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lind (Republican) — NAY
- Kittel Halvorson (Populist) — YEA
- Osee Matson Hall (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Harries (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 7 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Byrns (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Montana 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Wirt Dixon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 4 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Grady (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Martin Nelson Johnson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Omer Madison Kem (Populist) — YEA
- William Arthur McKeighan (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Luther Franklin McKinney (Democrat) — YEA
- Warren Fisher Daniell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus (Democrat) — YEA
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — YEA
- James Buchanan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Fowler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dunn English (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 11 yes, 3 no, 19 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — YEA
- George van Horn (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — YEA
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bacon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilbur Bentley (Democrat) — YEA
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Newton Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — NAY
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NAY
- 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) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy John Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Jerome Coombs (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 8 yes, 2 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jackson Pearson (Democrat) — YEA
- Bellamy Storer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Darius Dodge Hare (Democrat) — YEA
- Dennis D. Donovan (Democrat) — YEA
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Houk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Irvine Dungan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John M. Pattison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Philip Ohliger (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Kissinger Gantz (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Eachus Doan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- Vincent Albert Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Enochs (Republican) — NAY
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Binger Hermann (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 12 yes, 2 no, 14 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) — NOT VOTING
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Scull (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Hallowell (Democrat) — YEA
- Eugene Pierce Gillespie (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — YEA
- George Franklin Huff (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frederic Kribbs (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Shonk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
- John Buchanan Robinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NAY
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Amerman (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Griswold (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — YEA
- Simon Peter Wolverton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexis Stone (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Allen Sipe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McAleer (Democrat) — YEA
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Harrison Page (Democrat) — YEA
- Oscar Lapham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Dakota 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Alfred Pickler (Republican) — YEA
- John Lawlor Jolley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — YEA
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat) — YEA
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Chiles Houk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Patterson (Democrat) — YEA
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 8 yes, 2 no, 1 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) — NAY
- John Benjamin Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — YEA
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — YEA
- Elisha Edward Meredith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Fletcher Epes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Lawson (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — YEA
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Atkinson Jones (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Washington 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Lockwood Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 4 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Ralph Bushnell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — YEA
- Clinton Babbitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Potter Coburn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Miltiades Miller (Democrat) — YEA
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Lynch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- James Capehart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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