TO PASS S. 1988, A BILL AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY BUILDING, EAST OF THE CAPITOL BETWEEN B STREET AND FIRST AND SECOND STREETS, S. E.

Number:: Senate Vote #516 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:: Feb 23, 1881 (46^th Congress)
Result:: unknown

	Totals		Democrat	Republican	Independent
Aye	38	50%	22	16	0
Nay	18	24%	10	8	0
Not Voting	20	26%	10	9	1
Required:	unknown

Vote Details

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

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.)