The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H. RES. 1, REFERRING TO A SPECIAL COMMITTEE THE QUESTION OF THE RIGHT OF OFFICE OF RICHARD E. BIRD, BY SUBSTITUTING THAT R. E. BIRD IS ENTITLED TO HIS SEAT AS REPRESENTATIVE FROM KANSAS. (P.80-2)
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What was on the floor
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How each state's members voted
In 26 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 8 every one voted no; 14 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: 4 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: 5 yes, 0 no
- Idaho: 2 yes, 0 no
- Montana: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 3 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 22 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 11 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 11 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 32 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 3 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 13 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 3 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 3 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 11 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 11 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 21 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 34 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 11 yes, 1 no
- Connecticut: 4 yes, 0 no
- California: 8 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: 2 yes, 0 no
- Colorado: 3 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 14 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: 0 yes, 1 no
- New Mexico: 1 yes, 0 no
- Kansas: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 6 no
- Tennessee: 5 yes, 5 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 6 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: 5 yes, 3 no
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 8 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 7 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 8 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 12 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 15 no
- Florida: 0 yes, 3 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 1 yes, 8 no
- Edward Berton Almon (Democrat) — NAY
- George Huddleston (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bascom Steagall (Democrat) — NAY
- John McDuffie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Russell Tyson (Democrat) — NAY
- Lilius Bratton Rainey (Democrat) — NAY
- William Bacon Oliver (Democrat) — NAY
- William Bismarck Bowling (Democrat) — NAY
- William Brockman Bankhead (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 0 yes, 6 no
Arizona 0 yes, 1 no
California 8 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Monroe Free (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Forrest Curry (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence Frederick Lea (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Zenas Osborne (Republican) — YEA
- John Arthur Elston (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Ignatius Nolan (Republican) — YEA
- Julius Kahn (Republican) — YEA
- Philip David Swing (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Franklin Lineberger (Republican) — YEA
Colorado 3 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 4 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frank Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Herbert Jackson Drane (Democrat) — NAY
- John Harris Smithwick (Democrat) — NAY
- William Joseph Sears (Democrat) — NAY
Georgia 0 yes, 12 no
- Carl Vinson (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Hillyer Brand (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Robert Crisp (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Park (Democrat) — NAY
- Gordon Lee (Democrat) — NAY
- James Walter Wise (Democrat) — NAY
- James Whetstone Overstreet (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Montgomery Bell (Democrat) — NAY
- William Carter Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- William Chester Lankford (Democrat) — NAY
- William David Upshaw (Democrat) — NAY
- William Washington Larsen (Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 11 yes, 0 no
- Burton Erwin Sweet (Republican) — YEA
- Cassius Clay Dowell (Republican) — YEA
- Christian William Ramseyer (Republican) — YEA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Edward Hull (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Mann Towner (Republican) — YEA
- James William Good (Republican) — YEA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson (Republican) — YEA
- William Dayton Boies (Republican) — YEA
- William Frederick Kopp (Republican) — YEA
- William Raymond Green (Republican) — YEA
Idaho 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 22 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath (Democrat) — NAY
- Allen Francis Moore (Republican) — YEA
- Carl Richard Chindblom (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Eugene Fuller (Republican) — NAY
- Clifford Cady Ireland (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Everett Denison (Republican) — YEA
- Edward John King (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Bruce Brooks (Republican) — YEA
- Elliott Wilford Sproul (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Hamilton Funk (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Albert Britten (Republican) — YEA
- Guy Loren Shaw (Republican) — YEA
- Ira Clifton Copley (Republican) — YEA
- James Robert Mann (Republican) — YEA
- John Charles McKenzie (Republican) — YEA
- John Jerome Gorman (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Loren Edgar Wheeler (Republican) — YEA
- Magne Alfred Michaelson (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Barnaby Madden (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Republican) — YEA
- Stanley Henry Kunz (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Sutler Williams (Republican) — YEA
- William August Rodenberg (Republican) — YEA
- William Ernest Mason (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Johnson Graham (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 11 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Henry Vestal (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew James Hickey (Republican) — YEA
- Everett Sanders (Republican) — YEA
- Fred Sampson Purnell (Republican) — YEA
- James Whitson Dunbar (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Samuel Benham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Louis William Fairfield (Republican) — YEA
- Merrill Moores (Republican) — YEA
- Milton Kraus (Republican) — YEA
- Oscar Edward Bland (Republican) — YEA
- Oscar Raymond Luhring (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Nash Elliott (Republican) — YEA
- William Robert Wood (Republican) — YEA
Kansas 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Campbell Little (Republican) — YEA
- Hays Baxter White (Republican) — YEA
- Homer Hoch (Republican) — YEA
- James George Strong (Republican) — YEA
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher (Republican) — YEA
- Philip Pitt Campbell (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Ely Bird (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 2 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alben William Barkley (Democrat) — NAY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse (Democrat) — NAY
- Ben Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Franklin Ogden (Republican) — YEA
- David Hayes Kincheloe (Democrat) — NAY
- James Campbell Cantrill (Democrat) — NAY
- John Marshall Robsion (Republican) — YEA
- John Wesley Langley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- William Jason Fields (Democrat) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 8 no
Massachusetts 13 yes, 2 no
- Allen Towner Treadway (Republican) — YEA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Lee Underhill (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick William Dallinger (Republican) — YEA
- George Holden Tinkham (Republican) — YEA
- James Ambrose Gallivan (Democrat) — NAY
- John Jacob Rogers (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Walsh (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Adams Frothingham (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Francis Tague (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Luce (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Sarsfield Maloney (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow (Republican) — YEA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin (Republican) — YEA
- William Stedman Greene (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 4 yes, 0 no
Michigan 11 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Carl Edgar Mapes (Republican) — YEA
- Earl Cory Michener (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Douglas Scott (Republican) — YEA
- George Pierre Codd (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Campbell McLaughlin (Republican) — YEA
- John Clark Ketcham (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Warren Fordney (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Convers Cramton (Republican) — YEA
- Patrick Henry Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) — YEA
- Vincent Morrison Brennan (Republican) — YEA
- William Francis James (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew John Volstead (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Russell Davis (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Clague (Republican) — YEA
- Halvor Steenerson (Republican) — YEA
- Harold Knutson (Republican) — YEA
- Oscar Edward Keller (Republican) — YEA
- Oscar John Larson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sydney Anderson (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas David Schall (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Hughes Newton (Republican) — YEA
Missouri 14 yes, 1 no
- Charles Lee Faust (Republican) — YEA
- Cleveland Alexander Newton (Republican) — YEA
- Edgar Clarence Ellis (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Dixon Hays (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Crenshaw Millspaugh (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Bartow Hawes (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Franklin Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Vanbert McPherson (Republican) — YEA
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (Republican) — YEA
- Marion Edwards Rhodes (Republican) — YEA
- Roscoe Conkling Patterson (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Azariah Shelton (Republican) — YEA
- Sidney Crain Roach (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Waldemar Hukriede (Republican) — YEA
- William Oscar Atkeson (Republican) — YEA
Mississippi 0 yes, 7 no
Montana 2 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Manly Stedman (Democrat) — NAY
- Claude Kitchin (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward William Pou (Democrat) — NAY
- Hallett Sydney Ward (Democrat) — NAY
- Homer Le Grand Lyon (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Lee Doughton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Mitchell Brinson (Democrat) — NAY
- William Cicero Hammer (Democrat) — NAY
- Zebulon Weaver (Democrat) — NAY
North Dakota 3 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 11 yes, 1 no
- Amos Henry Radcliffe (Republican) — YEA
- Archibald Ernest Olpp (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien (Democrat) — NAY
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson (Republican) — YEA
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (Republican) — YEA
- Herbert Worthington Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Bacharach (Republican) — YEA
- Randolph Perkins (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Wayne Parker (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Frank Appleby (Republican) — YEA
New Mexico 1 yes, 0 no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 32 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican) — YEA
- Albert Berger Rossdale (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Nicholas Petersen (Republican) — YEA
- Anthony Jerome Griffin (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Archie Dovell Sanders (Republican) — YEA
- Ardolph Loges Kline (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild (Republican) — YEA
- Bertrand Hollis Snell (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Bonnell Ward (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Grosvenor Bond (Republican) — YEA
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clarence Macgregor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Alden Reed (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Joseph Riordan (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Crowther (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Cocks Hicks (Republican) — YEA
- Hamilton Fish (Republican) — YEA
- Homer Peter Snyder (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Siegel (Republican) — YEA
- James Michael Mead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Southworth Parker (Republican) — YEA
- James William Husted (Republican) — YEA
- John Davenport Clarke (Republican) — YEA
- John Francis Carew (Democrat) — NAY
- John Joseph Kindred (Democrat) — NAY
- John Kissel (Republican) — YEA
- Lester David Volk (Republican) — YEA
- Luther Wright Mott (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Charles Ansorge (Republican) — YEA
- Meyer London (Socialist) — YEA
- Michael Joseph Hogan (Republican) — YEA
- Nathan David Perlman (Republican) — YEA
- Norman Judd Gould (Republican) — YEA
- Ogden Livingston Mills (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Gansevoort ten Eyck (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Byrne Dunn (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Henry Cullen (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Jefferson Ryan (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Marion Chandler (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Warren Magee (Republican) — YEA
- Warren Isbell Lee (Republican) — YEA
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 21 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Cyrus Kearns (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Ellis Moore (Republican) — YEA
- Charles James Thompson (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Landon Knight (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Conrad Gahn (Republican) — YEA
- Israel Moore Foster (Republican) — YEA
- James Thomas Begg (Republican) — YEA
- John Charles Speaks (Republican) — YEA
- John Gordon Cooper (Republican) — YEA
- John Levi Cable (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hendrix Himes (Republican) — YEA
- Miner Gibbs Norton (Republican) — YEA
- Nicholas Longworth (Republican) — YEA
- Raymond Clinton Cole (Republican) — YEA
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Simeon Davison Fess (Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican) — YEA
- William Mitchell Morgan (Republican) — YEA
- William Wallace Chalmers (Republican) — YEA
Oklahoma 5 yes, 3 no
- Alice Mary Robertson (Republican) — YEA
- Charles David Carter (Democrat) — NAY
- Fletcher B. Swank (Democrat) — NAY
- James Vernon McClintic (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Colburn Pringey (Republican) — YEA
- Lorraine Michael Gensman (Republican) — YEA
- Manuel Herrick (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Alberter Chandler (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 3 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 34 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Shenk Kreider (Republican) — YEA
- Adam Martin Wyant (Republican) — YEA
- Anderson Howell Walters (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Robert Connell (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence Dennis Coughlin (Republican) — YEA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Schroeder Brooks (Republican) — YEA
- Evan John Jones (Republican) — YEA
- Fred Benjamin Gernerd (Republican) — YEA
- George Potter Darrow (Republican) — YEA
- George Scott Graham (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Edmonds (Republican) — YEA
- Guy Edgar Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harris Jacob Bixler (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Clay Ransley (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Wilson Temple (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Winfield Watson (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Clinton Kline (Republican) — YEA
- James Joseph Connolly (Republican) — YEA
- John Marshall Rose (Republican) — YEA
- John Mary Morin (Republican) — YEA
- John Reber (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph McLaughlin (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Thomas McFadden (Republican) — YEA
- Melville Clyde Kelly (Republican) — YEA
- Milton William Shreve (Ind. Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Leroy Strong (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Austin Kendall (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Geyer Porter (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Stalker Butler (Republican) — YEA
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick (Republican) — YEA
- William Joseph Burke (Republican) — YEA
- William Scott Vare (Republican) — YEA
- William Walton Griest (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 3 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 6 no
South Dakota 3 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 5 yes, 5 no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece (Republican) — YEA
- Ewin Lamar Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- Finis James Garrett (Democrat) — NAY
- Hubert Frederick Fisher (Democrat) — NAY
- James Willis Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Edgar Brown (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Wellington Byrns (Democrat) — NAY
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett (Democrat) — NAY
- Lon Allen Scott (Republican) — YEA
- Wynne F. Clouse (Republican) — YEA
Texas 2 yes, 15 no
- Claude Benton Hudspeth (Democrat) — NAY
- Clay Stone Briggs (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Edward Garrett (Democrat) — NAY
- Eugene Black (Democrat) — NAY
- Fritz Garland Lanham (Democrat) — NAY
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach (Republican) — YEA
- Hatton William Sumners (Democrat) — NAY
- James Paul Buchanan (Democrat) — NAY
- John Calvin Box (Democrat) — NAY
- John Marvin Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John Nance Garner (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (Democrat) — NAY
- Lucian Walton Parrish (Democrat) — NAY
- Morgan Gurley Sanders (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat) — NAY
Utah 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 0 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Montague (Democrat) — NAY
- Campbell Bascom Slemp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry De La Warr Flood (Democrat) — NAY
- James Pleasant Woods (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Thomas Deal (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Patrick Henry Drewry (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Walton Moore (Democrat) — NAY
- Schuyler Otis Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Walter Harrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
Washington 5 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 11 yes, 0 no
- Adolphus Peter Nelson (Republican) — YEA
- David Guy Classon (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Everts Browne (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Voigt (Republican) — YEA
- Florian Lampert (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Allen Cooper (Republican) — YEA
- James Archibald Frear (Republican) — YEA
- John Casimir Kleczka (Republican) — YEA
- John Mandt Nelson (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph David Beck (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Stafford (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom (Republican) — YEA
- George Meade Bowers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Chapman Woodyard (Republican) — YEA
- Leonard Sidney Echols (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Stuart Felix Reed (Republican) — YEA
- Wells Goodykoontz (Republican) — YEA
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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