The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND S. 9, SO AS TO PUT THE BILL IN EFFECT JULY 1.
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
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
Every roll call on S. 9
How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 5 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 6 yes, 4 no, 4 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: 0 yes, 7 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 14 no, 5 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, 1 no
- North Carolina: 3 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 1 no, 3 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 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — YEA
- Calvin Goddard (Federalist) — YEA
- Elias Perkins (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Davenport (Federalist) — YEA
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Terry Davis (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 6 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- 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) — NAY
- William Shepard (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
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
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — YEA
- Walter Bowie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
North Carolina 3 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — YEA
- Charles Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abiel Foster (Federalist) — YEA
- George Baxter Upham (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Peirce (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — YEA
New Jersey 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- 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 0 yes, 7 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hemphill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Boude (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Huger (Federalist) — YEA
- John Rutledge Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lowndes (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no
Virginia 0 yes, 14 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stratton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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