The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO APPEAL THE DECISIONS OF THE CHAIR AS TO WHETHER IT WAS IN ORDER TO USE CERTAIN EXPRESSIONS DURING CONSIDERATION OF THE RESOLUTION TO INSTRUCT THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS TO INQUIRE INTO THE LAWS LAYING …
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 5 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 8 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: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 4 no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 6 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 9 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 13 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 2 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: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Milledge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Terry Davis (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 6 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NAY
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — NAY
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — NAY
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — NAY
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — NAY
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NAY
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Shepard (Federalist) — NAY
Maryland 5 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Campbell (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dennis (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Sprigg Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — NAY
North Carolina 6 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — NAY
- Charles Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stanly (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — NAY
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 4 no
New Jersey 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — NAY
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NAY
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Morris (Federalist) — NAY
Pennsylvania 9 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — NAY
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hemphill (Federalist) — NAY
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Boude (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Huger (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Rutledge Jr. (Federalist) — NAY
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lowndes (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no
Virginia 13 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Stratton (Federalist) — NAY
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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