The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS A RESOLUTION TO INSTRUCT THE COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS TO INQUIRE INTO THE EXPEDIENCY OF REDUCING THE DUTY ON SALT.
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 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 9 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: 4 yes, 0 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: 4 yes, 6 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 8 yes, 5 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: 5 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 5 no
- Connecticut: 7 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 11 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 5 no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 2 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: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 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 7 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Milledge (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 8 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — YEA
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — YEA
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — YEA
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Shepard (Federalist) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 5 no
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Campbell (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dennis (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Sprigg Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — YEA
North Carolina 2 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stanly (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — YEA
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 4 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 5 no
New York 4 yes, 6 no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — YEA
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — YEA
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Morris (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 5 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — YEA
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hemphill (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Boude (Federalist) — YEA
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Dickson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 2 yes, 11 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stratton (Federalist) — YEA
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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