TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION RELATING TO NEGRO EMIGRATION TO NORTHERN STATES AND THE INVESTIGATION OF UNJUST CONDUCT OF SOUTHERN WHITES TOWARD THE NEGROS BY ADDING A CLAUSE THAT IF THE COMMITTEE FINDS THE EXODUS OF COLORED CITIZENS FROM THE SOUTH HAS BEEN CAUSED BY CRUEL TREATMENT OR OTHER UNJUST CAUSES, IT SHALL INQUIRE INTO SUCH CAUSES AND REPORT TO CONGRESS FOR NECESSARY ACTION TO SECURE RIGHTS UNDER THE U. S. CONSTITUTION AND TO INQUIRE AS TO THE PRACTICALITY OF PROVIDING SPECIAL TERRITORY FOR THEIR OCCUPATION. (P. 155-2)

Number:: Senate Vote #194 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:: Dec 18, 1879 (46^th Congress)
Result:: unknown

	Totals		Democrat	Republican	Independent
Aye	18	27%	1	17	0
Nay	25	37%	24	0	1
Not Voting	24	36%	13	11	0
Required:	unknown

Vote Details

Vote	Party	Representative	State
Aye	D	Hill, Benjamin	GA
Aye	R	Allison, William	IA
Aye	R	Cameron, Angus	WI
Aye	R	Carpenter, Matthew	WI
Aye	R	Conkling, Roscoe	NY
Aye	R	Dawes, Henry	MA
Aye	R	Windom, William	MN
Aye	R	Platt, Orville	CT
Aye	R	Rollins, Edward	NH
Aye	R	Saunders, Alvin	NE
Aye	R	Edmunds, George	VT
Aye	R	Hoar, George	MA
Aye	R	Kellogg, William	LA
Aye	R	Logan, John	IL
Aye	R	McMillan, Samuel	MN
Aye	R	Baldwin, Henry	MI
Aye	R	Blair, Henry	NH
Aye	R	Booth, Newton	CA
Nay	D	Jonas, Benjamin	LA
Nay	D	Johnston, John	VA
Nay	D	Coke, Richard	TX
Nay	D	Davis, Henry	WV
Nay	D	Eaton, William	CT
Nay	D	Vance, Zebulon	NC
Nay	D	Vest, George	MO
Nay	D	Voorhees, Daniel	IN
Nay	D	Williams, John	KY
Nay	D	Randolph, Theodore	NJ
Nay	D	Ransom, Matt	NC
Nay	D	Saulsbury, Eli	DE
Nay	D	Slater, James	OR
Nay	D	Hampton, Wade	SC
Nay	D	Harris, Isham	TN
Nay	D	Hereford, Frank	WV
Nay	D	Maxey, Samuel	TX
Nay	D	McDonald, Joseph	IN
Nay	D	Pendleton, George	OH
Nay	D	Bailey, James	TN
Nay	D	Bayard, Thomas	DE
Nay	D	Beck, James	KY
Nay	D	Butler, Matthew	SC
Nay	D	Call, Wilkinson	FL
Nay	I	Davis, David	IL
No Vote	D	Jones, Charles	FL
No Vote	D	Cockrell, Francis	MO
No Vote	D	Thurman, Allen	OH
No Vote	D	Walker, James	AR
No Vote	D	Wallace, William	PA
No Vote	D	Whyte, William	MD
No Vote	D	Gordon, John	GA
No Vote	D	Groome, James	MD
No Vote	D	Grover, La	OR
No Vote	D	Houston, George	AL
No Vote	D	Kernan, Francis	NY
No Vote	D	Lamar, Lucius	MS
No Vote	D	Morgan, John	AL
No Vote	R	Jones, John	NV
No Vote	R	Anthony, Henry	RI
No Vote	R	Cameron, James	PA
No Vote	R	Plumb, Preston	KS
No Vote	R	Sharon, William	NV
No Vote	R	Teller, Henry	CO
No Vote	R	Hamlin, Hannibal	ME
No Vote	R	Kirkwood, Samuel	IA
No Vote	R	Blaine, James	ME
No Vote	R	Bruce, Blanche	MS
No Vote	R	Burnside, Ambrose	RI

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.)