To agree to the committee amendment to the compensation report; which amendment strikes out the provision denying extra compensation to the secretary of war.

On Jan 27, 1797, the House voted 51–39. Result: passed. By party: Others 51–39.

During the 4th Congress (1795–1796), George Washington was president.

Yes: 51
No: 39
Did not vote: 25
Date: Jan 27, 1797

By party

Others51 yes · 39 no · 25 didn’t vote

How each representative voted: Yes

Abraham Baldwin O-GA
John Milledge O-GA
Alexander Dalrymple Orr O-KY
Thomson Joseph Skinner O-MA
William Lyman O-MA
Nathaniel Freeman Jr. O-MA
Joseph Bradley Varnum O-MA
George Thacher O-MA
James Holland O-NC
Matthew Locke O-NC
Jesse Franklin O-NC
William Francis Strudwick O-NC
Nathaniel Macon O-NC
James Gillespie O-NC
William Barry Grove O-NC
Dempsey Burges O-NC
Thomas Blount O-NC
Nathan Bryan O-NC
John Samuel Sherburne O-NH
Aaron Kitchell O-NJ
Isaac Smith O-NJ
Mark Thomson O-NJ
Thomas Henderson O-NJ
Jonathan Nicoll Havens O-NY
John Hathorn O-NY
Theodorus Bailey O-NY
John Swanwick O-PA
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg O-PA
Richard Thomas O-PA
John Richards O-PA
Samuel Maclay O-PA
Andrew Gregg O-PA
William Findley O-PA
Albert Gallatin O-PA
Wade Hampton O-SC
Richard Winn O-SC
Andrew Jackson O-TN
Robert Rutherford O-VA
Andrew Moore O-VA
George Jackson O-VA
George Hancock O-VA
Isaac Coles O-VA
Abraham Bedford Venable O-VA
Thomas Claiborne O-VA
William Branch Giles O-VA
Carter Bassett Harrison O-VA
Josiah Parker O-VA
John Clopton O-VA
Samuel Jordan Cabell O-VA
Anthony New O-VA
Daniel Buck O-VT

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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