The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS H. J. RES. 86, TO PAY SESSION AND OTHER EMPLOYEES, AND PER DIEM EMPLOYEES, RETAINED DURING THE RECESS, PROVIDED THAT THE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED SHALL NOT EXCEED $40,000.
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)
What was on the floor
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How each state's members voted
In 22 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 17 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Idaho: 1 yes, 0 no
- Montana: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 1 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 10 yes, 4 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 7 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 10 yes, 0 no, 24 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 2 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wyoming: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Iowa: 0 yes, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 11 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 14 yes, 0 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 5 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 6 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 9 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: 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 5 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 3 no, 2 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, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 3 yes, 5 no, 5 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 3 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Gaston Ahi Robbins (Democrat) — NAY
- James Edward Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
- Jesse Francis Stallings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 Denson (Democrat) — YEA
Arkansas 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Doddridge McCulloch Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Neill (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat) — NAY
- William Leake Terry (Democrat) — NAY
California 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Caminetti (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Eugene Francis Loud (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James George Maguire (Democrat) — YEA
- Marion Cannon (Populist) — NAY
- Samuel Greeley Hilborn (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas J. Geary (Democrat) — YEA
- William Wallace Bowers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Calhoun Bell (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- Lafayette Pence (Populist) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Addison Russell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Protus Pigott (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Sperry (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Elliott de Forest (Democrat) — YEA
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 1 yes, 1 no
Georgia 1 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Edward Russell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat) — NAY
- Farish Carter Tate (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NAY
- James Conquest Cross Black (Democrat) — NAY
- John W. Maddox (Democrat) — NAY
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Banks Cabaniss (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Alva Lysander Hager (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Perkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Fletcher Lacey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Gear (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Gordon Cousins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Updegraff (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Peters Hepburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Idaho 1 yes, 0 no
Illinois 10 yes, 4 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Jackson Hunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Funk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Hamilton Kinkaid Wheeler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Franklin Aldrich (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- John Charles Black (Democrat) — YEA
- John James McDannold (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Julius Goldzier (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Andrew Childs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — YEA
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 8 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Herbert Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Gerard Conn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — NAY
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican) — YEA
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lewis Bretz (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hammond (Democrat) — YEA
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — YEA
- William Forgy McNagny (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 6 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Seaton Berry (Democrat) — YEA
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — NAY
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — YEA
- Marcus Claiborne Lisle (Democrat) — YEA
- Silas Adams (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 5 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 3 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Ashley Bascom Wright (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Huntington Gillett (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Dewart Apsley (Republican) — YEA
- Michael Joseph McEttrick (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Walker McCall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Cogswell (Republican) — YEA
- William Everett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Franklin Draper (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
- Isidor Rayner (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Franklin Bratton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McMahon McKaig (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 7 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- David Demerest Aitken (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frederick Richardson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Franklin Thomas (Republican) — YEA
- James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Avery (Republican) — YEA
- John Wesley Moon (Republican) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat) — YEA
- William Seelye Linton (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Missouri 5 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Frederick Joy (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Henry Morgan (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Dee Burnes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Albaugh de Armond (Democrat) — NAY
- James Beauchamp Clark (Democrat) — NAY
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — NAY
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — YEA
- Marshall Arnold (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Bartholdt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat) — NAY
- Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- Uriel Sebree Hall (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 3 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat) — YEA
- John Curtis Kyle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Mills Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sharp Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat) — NAY
Montana 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 5 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Grady (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick Augustus Woodard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Settle (Republican) — YEA
- William Augustus Blount Branch (Democrat) — NAY
- William Horton Bower (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Crawford (Democrat) — NAY
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Henry Mercer (Republican) — YEA
- Eugene Jerome Hainer (Republican) — YEA
- George de Rue Meiklejohn (Republican) — YEA
- Omer Madison Kem (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Arthur McKeighan (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus (Democrat) — YEA
- George Bragg Fielder (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Clay Loudenslager (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — YEA
- John James Gardner (Republican) — YEA
- John Thomas Dunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Johnston Cornish (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dunn English (Democrat) — YEA
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Griffith Newlands (Silver) — NOT VOTING
New York 10 yes, 0 no, 24 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — YEA
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Addison Chickering (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Daniels (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Delemere Haines (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles William Gillet (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Marvin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Franklin Bartlett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Le Fever (Republican) — YEA
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John De Witt Warner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hugh Graham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Madison Wever (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John R. Fellows (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John van Voorhis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Clifford Hendrix (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Martin Curtis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — YEA
- Simon Jacob Schermerhorn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy John Campbell (Democrat) — YEA
- Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Jerome Coombs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Ryan (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 11 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jackson Pearson (Democrat) — YEA
- Bellamy Storer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Byron Foster Ritchie (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Darius Dodge Hare (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dennis D. Donovan (Democrat) — YEA
- Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Pierce Ikirt (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Houk (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Hulick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay van Voorhis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Alexander Dudley Richards (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Luther Martin Strong (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat) — YEA
- Stephen Asa Northway (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- William John White (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 2 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 14 yes, 0 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Cole Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander McDowell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Warren Stone (Republican) — YEA
- Constantine Jacob Erdman (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Brodhead Heiner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ephraim Milton Woomer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Frederic Kribbs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- Howard Mutchler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Irving Price Wanger (Republican) — YEA
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
- John Buchanan Robinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Crocker Sibley (Democrat) — YEA
- Josiah Duane Hicks (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — YEA
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — YEA
- Simon Peter Wolverton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Maclay Mahon (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexis Stone (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Allen Sipe (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Hines (Democrat) — YEA
- William Lilly (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William McAleer (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Harrison Page (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oscar Lapham (Democrat) — YEA
South Carolina 2 yes, 3 no, 2 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
- William Vincent Lucas (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 4 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat) — NAY
- James Calvin McDearmon (Democrat) — NAY
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Chiles Houk (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — NAY
- Josiah Patterson (Democrat) — YEA
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 3 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Keith Bell (Democrat) — NAY
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — NAY
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Cassety Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Chappell Hutcheson (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Bronson Cooper (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Moore Paschal (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Gresham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Gardiner Tyler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elisha Edward Meredith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Fletcher Epes (Democrat) — YEA
- James William Marshall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (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 2 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — YEA
- George Bullen Shaw (Republican) — YEA
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Allen Cooper (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Weeks Babcock (Republican) — YEA
- Lyman Eddy Barnes (Democrat) — NAY
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Owen Augustine Wells (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Peter J. Somers (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Lynch (Democrat) — NAY
West Virginia 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Capehart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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