Senate roll call 17 · 23rd Congress · Mar 5, 1834
To amend the fifth resolution providing that in prosecution of said inquiry, the committee have power to send for persons and papers and to examine witnesses be
On Mar 5, 1834, the Senate voted 13–27. Result: failed. By party: Others 13–27.
During the 23rd Congress (1833–1834), Andrew Jackson was president.
- Yes
- 13
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Mar 5, 1834
By party
- Others13 yes · 27 no · 14 didn’t vote
How each senator voted: Yes
- William Rufus de Vane King O-AL
- John Forsyth O-GA
- John Pendleton King O-GA
- John Tipton O-IN
- Ether Shepley O-ME
- Lewis Fields Linn O-MO
- Bedford Brown O-NC
- Isaac Hill O-NH
- Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge O-NY
- Silas Wright Jr. O-NY
- Thomas Morris O-OH
- Felix Grundy O-TN
- Hugh Lawson White O-TN
How each senator voted: No
- Gabriel Moore O-AL
- Gideon Tomlinson O-CT
- Nathan Smith O-CT
- Arnold Naudain O-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- John McCracken Robinson O-IL
- William Hendricks O-IN
- George Mortimer Bibb O-KY
- Henry Clay O-KY
- Alexander Porter O-LA
- George Augustus Waggaman O-LA
- Daniel Webster O-MA
- Nathaniel Silsbee O-MA
- Ezekiel Forman Chambers O-MD
- Peleg Sprague O-ME
- George Poindexter O-MS
- John Black O-MS
- Samuel Bell O-NH
- Theodore Frelinghuysen O-NJ
- Thomas Ewing O-OH
- Asher Robbins O-RI
- Nehemiah Rice Knight O-RI
- John Caldwell Calhoun O-SC
- William Campbell Preston O-SC
- Benjamin Watkins Leigh O-VA
- Benjamin Swift O-VT
- Samuel Prentiss O-VT
Did not vote
- Alfred Cuthbert O-GA
- Elias Kent Kane O-IL
- Josiah Stoddard Johnston O-LA
- Joseph Kent O-MD
- Robert Henry Goldsborough O-MD
- John Ruggles O-ME
- Thomas Hart Benton O-MO
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- Samuel Lewis Southard O-NJ
- James Buchanan O-PA
- Samuel Mckean O-PA
- William Wilkins O-PA
- John Tyler O-VA
- William Cabell Rives O-VA
Other votes
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