The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.J. RES. 28, PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF SENATORS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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 34 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 6 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, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: 2 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 15 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 11 yes, 1 no
- New York: 18 yes, 0 no, 15 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 7 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 10 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 15 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 19 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 2 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 12 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 0 no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 7 yes, 1 no
- Arkansas: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 10 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 7 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 10 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 10 yes, 0 no, 3 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 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- George Washington Taylor (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry De Lamar Clayton (Democrat) — YEA
- Jesse Francis Stallings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lawson Burnett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat) — YEA
- William Farrington Aldrich (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Brewer (Democrat) — YEA
Arkansas 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
California 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Eugene Francis Loud (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Carson Needham (Republican) — YEA
- John All Barham (Republican) — YEA
- Julius Kahn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marion de Vries (Democrat) — YEA
- Russell Judson Waters (Republican) — YEA
- Victor Howard Metcalf (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Wyche Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 10 yes, 1 no
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Banks Lewis (Democrat) — YEA
- Farish Carter Tate (Democrat) — YEA
- James Mathews Griggs (Democrat) — YEA
- John W. Maddox (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — NAY
- William Charles Adamson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Gordon Brantley (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Fleming (Democrat) — YEA
- William Marcellus Howard (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen (Republican) — YEA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Fletcher Lacey (Republican) — YEA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Reed Lane (Republican) — NAY
- Lot Thomas (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Gordon Cousins (Republican) — YEA
- Smith McPherson (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Hedge (Republican) — NAY
- William Peters Hepburn (Republican) — YEA
Idaho 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edgar Wilson (Silver Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 15 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — YEA
- Ben Franklin Caldwell (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Thomas Noonan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Edmund Foss (Republican) — YEA
- George Peter Foster (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Prince (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Sherman Boutell (Republican) — YEA
- James Robert Mann (Republican) — NAY
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Burns Crowley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Verdi Graff (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Cusack (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Marion Jett (Democrat) — YEA
- Vespasian Warner (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Reeves (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William August Rodenberg (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Elza Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- William Lorimer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 10 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Lincoln Brick (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Beary Landis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Marion Griffith (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Cromer (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Faris (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Steele (Republican) — YEA
- James Alexander Hemenway (Republican) — YEA
- James Eli Watson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James McClellan Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- Jesse Overstreet (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Walter Miers (Democrat) — YEA
- William Taylor Zenor (Democrat) — YEA
Kansas 7 yes, 1 no
- Charles Curtis (Republican) — YEA
- Chester Isaiah Long (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Reed Ridgely (Populist) — YEA
- James Monroe Miller (Republican) — YEA
- Justin De Witt Bowersock (Republican) — YEA
- William Alexander Calderhead (Republican) — NAY
- William Augustus Reeder (Republican) — YEA
- Willis Joshua Bailey (Republican) — YEA
Kentucky 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Seaton Berry (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Kennedy Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- David Highbaugh Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- George Gilmore Gilbert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Dixon Allen (Democrat) — YEA
- John Stockdale Rhea (Democrat) — YEA
- June Ward Gayle (Democrat) — YEA
- Oscar Turner (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Johnson Pugh (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Young Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — YEA
- Vincent Boreing (Republican) — YEA
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Meyer (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Phanor Breazeale (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Charles Davey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Foligny Broussard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 7 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Franklin Sprague (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ernest William Roberts (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett (Republican) — PRESENT
- George Pelton Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- George Warren Weymouth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Francis Naphen (Democrat) — YEA
- John Francis Fitzgerald (Democrat) — YEA
- John Randolph Thayer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Walker McCall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Croad Lovering (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Moody (Republican) — YEA
- William Shadrach Knox (Republican) — YEA
- William Stedman Greene (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 5 yes, 0 no
Maine 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 11 yes, 1 no
- Carlos Douglas Shelden (Republican) — YEA
- Edgar Weeks (Republican) — YEA
- Edward La Rue Hamilton (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Cassorte Smith (Republican) — YEA
- John Blaisdell Corliss (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Warren Fordney (Republican) — NAY
- Roswell Peter Bishop (Republican) — YEA
- Rousseau Owen Crump (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel William Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Washington Gardner (Republican) — YEA
- William Alden Smith (Republican) — YEA
- William Smith Mesick (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Missouri 12 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Pearce (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Frederick Joy (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Fremont Cochran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Albaugh de Armond (Democrat) — YEA
- Dorsey William Shackleford (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Robb (Democrat) — YEA
- James Beauchamp Clark (Democrat) — YEA
- James Cooney (Democrat) — YEA
- James Tilghman Lloyd (Democrat) — YEA
- John Dougherty (Democrat) — YEA
- Maecenas Eason Benton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Bartholdt (Republican) — YEA
- Willard Duncan Vandiver (Democrat) — YEA
- William Strother Cowherd (Democrat) — YEA
- William Waller Rucker (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Fuller Fox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Alexander McLain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Mills Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sharp Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Patrick Henry (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Spight (Democrat) — YEA
Montana 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert James Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Randolph Thomas (Democrat) — YEA
- George Henry White (Republican) — YEA
- John Dillard Bellamy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Humphrey Small (Democrat) — YEA
- John Wilbur Atwater (Populist) — YEA
- Romulus Zachariah Linney (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Franklin Kluttz (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Crawford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Walton Kitchin (Democrat) — YEA
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Howell (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Newell Fowler (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Clay Loudenslager (Republican) — YEA
- James Fleming Stewart (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John James Gardner (Republican) — NAY
- Joshua S. Salmon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Wayne Parker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Davis Daly (Democrat) — YEA
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 18 yes, 0 no, 15 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane (Republican) — YEA
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — YEA
- Arthur Sidney Tompkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Bertram Tracy Clayton (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles William Gillet (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Joseph Riordan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander (Republican) — YEA
- Edmund Hope Driggs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Eugene Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- George Brinton McClellan (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Ruppert Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Mary Early O'Grady (Republican) — YEA
- James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jefferson Monroe Levy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — YEA
- John Joseph Fitzgerald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Knox Stewart (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Quincy Underhill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Louis Woodard Emerson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Nathan Littauer (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Henry Glynn (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Edward Driscoll (Republican) — YEA
- Mitchell May (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Muller (Democrat) — YEA
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Joseph Bradley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Townsend Scudder (Democrat) — YEA
- William Astor Chanler (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Ryan (Democrat) — YEA
- William Sulzer (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 15 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Lybrand (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican) — YEA
- Charles William Frederick Dick (Republican) — YEA
- David Meekison (Democrat) — YEA
- Fremont Orestes Phillips (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Clay van Voorhis (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Henry Bromwell (Republican) — YEA
- James Albert Norton (Democrat) — YEA
- James Harding Southard (Republican) — YEA
- John Anderson McDowell (Democrat) — YEA
- John Jacob Lentz (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lewis Brenner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph John Gill (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Bryarly Gordon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Walker Tayler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Seth W. Brown (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Morgan (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Lowrie Weaver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bunn Shattuc (Republican) — YEA
- Winfield Scott Kerr (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Malcolm Adelbert Moody (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas H. Tongue (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 19 yes, 0 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Athelston Gaston (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Charles Frederick Wright (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Danner Ziegler (Democrat) — YEA
- Ernest Francis Acheson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Dickinson Green (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Billings Packer (Republican) — YEA
- Irving Price Wanger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Knox Polk Hall (Democrat) — YEA
- James Rankin Young (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Wilfrid Ryan (Democrat) — YEA
- John Dalzell (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Baltzell Showalter (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Crocker Sibley (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Earlston Thropp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Laird Howard Barber (Democrat) — YEA
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted (Republican) — YEA
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Adams Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rufus King Polk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Arza Davenport (Republican) — YEA
- Stanley Woodward Davenport (Democrat) — YEA
- Summers Melville Jack (Republican) — YEA
- Thaddeus Maclay Mahon (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Stalker Butler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Connell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Graham (Republican) — YEA
- William McAleer (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 7 yes, 0 no
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 10 yes, 0 no
- Charles Edward Snodgrass (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Ward Carmack (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Richard Gibson (Republican) — YEA
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Austin Moon (Democrat) — YEA
- John Wesley Gaines (Democrat) — YEA
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — YEA
- Thetus Willrette Sims (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Preston Brownlow (Republican) — YEA
Texas 10 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Sidney Burleson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Luther Slayden (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hall Stephens (Democrat) — YEA
- John Levi Sheppard (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reese Calhoun de Graffenreid (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Bradley Hawley (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Emmet Burke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Lee Henry (Democrat) — YEA
- Rudolph Kleberg (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Bronson Cooper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Henry Ball (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 7 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Hay (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin Rixey (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lamb (Democrat) — YEA
- Julian Minor Quarles (Democrat) — YEA
- Peter Johnston Otey (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Alsop Wise (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Atkinson Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- William Francis Rhea (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
Washington 2 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Stewart (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Sloman Minor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Allen Cooper (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Bjorn Dahle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Henry Davidson (Republican) — YEA
- John Jacob Esch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John James Jenkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Weeks Babcock (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Stebbins Barney (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Theobald Otjen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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