The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON THE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING AS THE JUDGEMENT OF THIS HOUSE THAT GRANTING OF SUBSIDIES OR BOUNTIES BY CONGRESS IN MONEY, PUBLIC LANDS, BONDS OR PLEDGES TO PROMOTE SPECIAL PRIVATE…
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 16 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 9 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, 4 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Idaho: 0 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 12 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 7 yes, 4 no
- New York: 15 yes, 8 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wyoming: 0 yes, 1 no
- South Dakota: 0 yes, 2 no
- Iowa: 5 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 10 yes, 3 no
- Ohio: 8 yes, 6 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 8 yes, 11 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 10 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 6 yes, 0 no, 4 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: 1 yes, 6 no
- Arkansas: 5 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 7 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 4 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 yes, 1 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — YEA
- James Edward Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
Arkansas 5 yes, 0 no
California 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Caminetti (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Eugene Francis Loud (Republican) — NAY
- John Tyler Cutting (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph McKenna (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas J. Geary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Bowers (Republican) — NAY
Colorado 0 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Russell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Sperry (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Elliott de Forest (Democrat) — YEA
- Washington Frederick Willcox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 1 yes, 1 no
Georgia 5 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NAY
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert William Everett (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Edward Watson (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Elisha Winn (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 5 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — NAY
- Frederick Edward White (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Perkins (Republican) — NAY
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — NAY
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — NAY
- John Joseph Seerley (Democrat) — YEA
- John Taylor Hamilton (Democrat) — YEA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Bowman (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Halben Butler (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Idaho 0 yes, 1 no
Illinois 12 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NAY
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Taylor Cable (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Wilber Snow (Democrat) — YEA
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Steward (Democrat) — YEA
- Owen Scott (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Thompson Busey (Democrat) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NAY
- Walter Cass Newberry (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — YEA
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 10 yes, 3 no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican) — NAY
- David Henry Patton (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican) — NAY
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lewis Bretz (Democrat) — YEA
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — NAY
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — YEA
Kansas 1 yes, 6 no
Kentucky 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — YEA
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — YEA
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Wilkerson 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) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Meyer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Andrew Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat) — YEA
- Matthew Diamond Lagan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 2 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — NAY
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — NAY
- Frederick Spaulding Coolidge (Democrat) — NAY
- 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) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NAY
- Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherman Hoar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Cogswell (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Barnes Compton (Democrat) — YEA
- Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Page (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Stump (Democrat) — YEA
- Isidor Rayner (Democrat) — YEA
- William McMahon McKaig (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 4 no
Michigan 7 yes, 4 no
- Byron Gray Stout (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — NAY
- Harrison H. Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Melville Youmans (Democrat) — YEA
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — NAY
- James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NAY
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat) — YEA
Minnesota 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Nathan Castle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lind (Republican) — NAY
- Kittel Halvorson (Populist) — NAY
- Osee Matson Hall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Harries (Democrat) — YEA
Missouri 10 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — YEA
- David Albaugh de Armond (Democrat) — YEA
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — YEA
- John Joseph O'Neill (Democrat) — YEA
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — YEA
- Marshall Arnold (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Byrns (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — YEA
- Clarke Lewis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Curtis Kyle (Democrat) — YEA
- John Mills Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry Beeman (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Montana 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Wirt Dixon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 6 yes, 0 no, 3 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) — YEA
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander (Democrat) — YEA
- William Augustus Blount Branch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Crawford (Democrat) — YEA
North Dakota 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Martin Nelson Johnson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Omer Madison Kem (Populist) — NAY
- William Arthur McKeighan (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 15 yes, 8 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Clark Chapin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — YEA
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — YEA
- George van Horn (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — NAY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bacon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilbur Bentley (Democrat) — YEA
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — YEA
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NAY
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — NAY
- John De Witt Warner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NAY
- John Madison Wever (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — YEA
- John R. Fellows (Democrat) — YEA
- John Raines (Republican) — NAY
- John Sanford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph James Little (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Martin Curtis (Republican) — NAY
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting (Democrat) — YEA
- Timothy John Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican) — NAY
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — YEA
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — YEA
- William Jerome Coombs (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 8 yes, 6 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jackson Pearson (Democrat) — YEA
- Bellamy Storer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Darius Dodge Hare (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dennis D. Donovan (Democrat) — YEA
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Houk (Democrat) — YEA
- James Irvine Dungan (Democrat) — YEA
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — NAY
- John George Warwick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John M. Pattison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Kissinger Gantz (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Eachus Doan (Republican) — NAY
- Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- Vincent Albert Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Enochs (Republican) — NAY
Oregon 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 8 yes, 11 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Cole Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — NAY
- Andrew Stewart (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Warren Stone (Republican) — NAY
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Scull (Republican) — NAY
- 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) — NAY
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
- John Buchanan Robinson (Republican) — NAY
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NAY
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NAY
- Lemuel Amerman (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — NAY
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Griswold (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Simon Peter Wolverton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexis Stone (Republican) — NAY
- William McAleer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Thomas Stackhouse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat) — YEA
- George Johnstone (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Shell (Democrat) — YEA
- John James Hemphill (Democrat) — YEA
- William Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Huggins Brawley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Dakota 0 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 7 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — YEA
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat) — YEA
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Chiles Houk (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — YEA
- Josiah Patterson (Democrat) — YEA
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — YEA
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — YEA
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Benjamin Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — YEA
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — YEA
- Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elisha Edward Meredith (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — YEA
- James Fletcher Epes (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Lawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — YEA
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Atkinson Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Washington 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Lockwood Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Ralph Bushnell (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — YEA
- Clinton Babbitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Potter Coburn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Miltiades Miller (Democrat) — YEA
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Lynch (Democrat) — YEA
West Virginia 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Capehart (Democrat) — YEA
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
Wyoming 0 yes, 1 no
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