The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO RECESS, MOTION MADE DURING DEBATE ON THE RES. DISAPPROV ING THE LANGUAGE USED BY HON. JOSEPH H. WALKER. NO QUORUM VOTING.
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 0 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 32 every one voted no; 1 was 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, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 1 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, 1 no
- North Dakota: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Minnesota: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 1 yes, 2 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 0 yes, 11 no, 23 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 4 no, 8 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Dakota: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Iowa: 0 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 8 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 12 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 7 no, 21 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 2 no, 3 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: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 4 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 6 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: 0 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 2 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, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel West Peel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henderson Cate (Democrat) — NAY
- William Leake Terry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Caminetti (Democrat) — NAY
- Eugene Francis Loud (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Tyler Cutting (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas J. Geary (Democrat) — NAY
- William Wallace Bowers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hosea Townsend (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Williams Causey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 2 no
Georgia 0 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NAY
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert William Everett (Democrat) — NAY
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Edward Watson (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Elisha Winn (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Edward White (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Perkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Joseph Seerley (Democrat) — NAY
- John Taylor Hamilton (Democrat) — NAY
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Bowman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 1 yes, 2 no, 17 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) — NAY
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Wilber Snow (Democrat) — NAY
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Steward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Owen Scott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Thompson Busey (Democrat) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Cass Newberry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 0 yes, 8 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Henry Patton (Democrat) — NAY
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — NAY
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lewis Bretz (Democrat) — NAY
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Hutchinson Clover (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- Case Broderick (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Hogue Funston (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jeremiah Simpson (Populist) — NAY
- John Davis (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- John Grant Otis (Populist) — NAY
- William Baker (Populist) — NAY
Kentucky 0 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — NAY
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — NAY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — NAY
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — NAY
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — NAY
- W. W. Dickerson (Democrat) — NAY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — NAY
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — NAY
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Meyer (Democrat) — NAY
- Andrew Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat) — NAY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 4 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) — NOT VOTING
- John Crawford Crosby (Democrat) — NAY
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat) — NAY
- Sherman Hoar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Cogswell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Barnes Compton (Democrat) — NAY
- Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Page (Democrat) — NAY
- Herman Stump (Democrat) — NAY
- Isidor Rayner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McMahon McKaig (Democrat) — NAY
Maine 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Boutelle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 0 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Byron Gray Stout (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Harrison H. Wheeler (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Melville Youmans (Democrat) — NAY
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat) — NAY
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — NAY
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat) — NAY
Minnesota 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Nathan Castle (Democrat) — NAY
- John Lind (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Kittel Halvorson (Populist) — NAY
- Osee Matson Hall (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Harries (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 0 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Albaugh de Armond (Democrat) — NAY
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — NAY
- John Joseph O'Neill (Democrat) — NAY
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Marshall Arnold (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Byrns (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Montana 0 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Franklin Grady (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander (Democrat) — NAY
- William Augustus Blount Branch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Omer Madison Kem (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Arthur McKeighan (Populist) — NAY
- William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) — NAY
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Luther Franklin McKinney (Democrat) — NAY
- Warren Fisher Daniell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Francis McDonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Buchanan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Fowler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dunn English (Democrat) — NAY
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Franklin Bartine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 0 yes, 11 no, 23 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Clark Chapin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — NAY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George van Horn (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Bacon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilbur Bentley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Newton Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NAY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John De Witt Warner (Democrat) — NAY
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Madison Wever (Republican) — NAY
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John R. Fellows (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Raines (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sanford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph James Little (Democrat) — NAY
- Newton Martin Curtis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting (Democrat) — NAY
- Timothy John Campbell (Democrat) — NAY
- Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Jerome Coombs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 0 yes, 12 no, 9 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) — NAY
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Houk (Democrat) — NAY
- James Irvine Dungan (Democrat) — NAY
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John George Warwick (Democrat) — NAY
- John M. Pattison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — NAY
- Martin Kissinger Gantz (Democrat) — NAY
- Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Eachus Doan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Vincent Albert Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Enochs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Binger Hermann (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 7 no, 21 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Cole Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Kerr Craig (Democrat) — NAY
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Warren Stone (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Scull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Hallowell (Democrat) — NAY
- Eugene Pierce Gillespie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Franklin Huff (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frederic Kribbs (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Shonk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — NAY
- John Buchanan Robinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Amerman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- William McAleer (Democrat) — NAY
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Dakota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Alfred Pickler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Lawlor Jolley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — NAY
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Chiles Houk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — NAY
- Josiah Patterson (Democrat) — NAY
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 0 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — NAY
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Benjamin Long (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — NAY
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 0 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elisha Edward Meredith (Democrat) — NAY
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — NAY
- James Fletcher Epes (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — NAY
- John William Lawson (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — NAY
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Atkinson Jones (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Henry Powers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Grout (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Washington 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Lockwood Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 0 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Ralph Bushnell (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — NAY
- Clinton Babbitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Potter Coburn (Democrat) — NAY
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat) — NAY
- Lucas Miltiades Miller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lynch (Democrat) — NAY
West Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Capehart (Democrat) — NAY
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Wyoming 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Clarence Don Clark (Republican) — NOT VOTING
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