TO ADJOURN UNTIL MONDAY, IN RESPECT FOR THE DEATH OF SENOR DON FILIPE MOLINO, MINISTER FROM GUATEMALA.

Number:: Senate Vote #405 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:: Feb 02, 1855 (33^rd Congress)
Result:: unknown

	Totals		Democrat	Whig	Ind. Republican-Democrat	American	Free Soil	Republican	Unknown
Aye	32	52%	20	5	4	2	1	0	0
Nay	14	23%	9	0	2	0	2	0	1
Not Voting	16	26%	8	3	2	1	0	1	1
Required:	unknown

Vote Details

Vote	Party	Representative	State
Aye	American	Houston, Samuel	TX
Aye	American	Thompson, John	KY
Aye	D	Dodge, Henry	WI
Aye	D	Evans, Josiah	SC
Aye	D	Douglas, Stephen	IL
Aye	D	Wright, William	NJ
Aye	D	Mallory, Stephen	FL
Aye	D	Butler, Andrew	SC
Aye	D	Benjamin, Judah	LA
Aye	D	Reid, David	NC
Aye	D	Pettit, John	IN
Aye	D	Mason, James	VA
Aye	D	Sebastian, William	AR
Aye	D	Johnson, Robert	AR
Aye	D	Atchison, David	MO
Aye	D	Allen, Philip	RI
Aye	D	Bayard, James	DE
Aye	D	Slidell, John	LA
Aye	D	Weller, John	CA
Aye	D	Toucey, Isaac	CT
Aye	D	Stuart, Charles	MI
Aye	D	Clay, Clement	AL
Aye	Free Soil	Chase, Salmon	OH
Aye	I	Pratt, Thomas	MD
Aye	I	Foot, Solomon	VT
Aye	I	Sumner, Charles	MA
Aye	I	Clayton, John	DE
Aye	Whig	Morton, Jackson	FL
Aye	Whig	Pearce, James	MD
Aye	Whig	Seward, William	NY
Aye	Whig	Badger, George	NC
Aye	Whig	Dawson, William	GA
Nay		Gwin, William
Nay	D	Dodge, Augustus	IA
Nay	D	Fitzpatrick, Benjamin	AL
Nay	D	Brown, Albert	MS
Nay	D	Brodhead, Richard	PA
Nay	D	James, Charles	RI
Nay	D	Jones, George	IA
Nay	D	Adams, Stephen	MS
Nay	D	Rusk, Thomas	TX
Nay	D	Thomson, John	NJ
Nay	Free Soil	Brainerd, Lawrence	VT
Nay	Free Soil	Gillette, Francis	CT
Nay	I	Jones, James	TN
Nay	I	Wade, Benjamin	OH
No Vote		Wells, John
No Vote	American	Bell, John	TN
No Vote	D	Williams, Jared	NH
No Vote	D	Shields, James	IL
No Vote	D	Bright, Jesse	IN
No Vote	D	Cass, Lewis	MI
No Vote	D	Hunter, Robert	VA
No Vote	D	Hamlin, Hannibal	ME
No Vote	D	Walker, Isaac	WI
No Vote	D	Toombs, Robert	GA
No Vote	I	Fish, Hamilton	NY
No Vote	I	Geyer, Henry	MO
No Vote	R	Fessenden, William	ME
No Vote	Whig	Dixon, Archibald	KY
No Vote	Whig	Rockwell, Julius	MA
No Vote	Whig	Cooper, James	PA

Notes

What’s the difference between aye and yea?

There is no meaningful difference between aye and yea (and nay and no), but the terms are used in different sorts of votes based on Congress’s long tradition of parliamentary procedure. The House and Senate follow the U.S. Constitution strictly when it says that bills should be decided on by the “yeas and nays” (Article I, Section 7). The House sometimes operates under a special set of rules called the “Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union” (or “Committee of the Whole” for short), which is a sort of pseudo-committee that is made up of every congressman. During this mode of operation, the House uses the terms “aye” and “no” instead. (See the Rules of the House, Rule XX, and House Practice in the section Voting.)