The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO CONCUR IN THE AMENDMENT OF H.R. 64, AN ACT ADDITIONAL TO "AN ACT CONCERNING THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA", SAID AMENDMENT TO DECREASE THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE ERECTION OF A JAIL IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
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.
How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 2 no, 9 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: 1 yes, 7 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 2 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, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 9 yes, 2 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no, 4 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, 0 no, 3 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 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — NAY
- Calvin Goddard (Federalist) — YEA
- Elias Perkins (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Davenport (Federalist) — NAY
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Sr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Milledge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Early (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 3 yes, 2 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Shepard (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 4 yes, 1 no, 3 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
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — YEA
- Walter Bowie (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 2 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — YEA
- Charles Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Stanly (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abiel Foster (Federalist) — YEA
- George Baxter Upham (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Peirce (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — YEA
New Jersey 2 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Morris (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 7 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — YEA
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NAY
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 1 yes, 1 no, 4 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) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no
Virginia 9 yes, 2 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stratton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Richard Morris (Federalist) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 108 members
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