A motion "that the Senate sitting for the trial of the President upon articles of impeachment do now adjourn without day" was adopted by a vote of 34 yeas to 16 nays.
Sessions were held without a quorum, and the yeas and nays often show that but few above thirty were present.
Upon motion made and seconded in either House by one-fifth of the members present, the yeas and nays upon any question shall be taken and entered upon the journals.
The resolutions were taken up for consideration by a vote of 29 yeas to 16 nays, when Mr. McDougall made an elaborate speech.
The bill then passed the Senate,--Yeas 27, Nays 9.
The yeas and nays were ordered, and, being taken, resulted, Yeas 19, Nays 16.
The question then recurred on the amendment, and it was lost,--Yeas 17, Nays 23.
The amendment of Mr. Sumner was lost,--Yeas 11, Nays 26.
The amendment striking out the tax was adopted,--Yeas 20, Nays 16.
But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.
It was reported in the newspapers of that period that the Constitution was adopted in this convention by 30 yeas against 25 nays.
Yeas and Nays, one fifth of members present in either House of Congress may require, II.
But, in all such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for or against the bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.
The bill as thus amended then passed by Yeas 47, Nays 10.
A vote was taken, after this amendment was adopted, upon the passage of the bill thus amended; and the vote on the passage of the bill was Yeas 29, Nays 10, and among those Yeas is not found the name of the Senator from Massachusetts.
Sir, is there any Senator in this Chamber whose name will be found oftener on the yeas and nays than my own?
The yeasand nays are however ordered on all important votes in Congress, which is not the case in ordinary societies.
The yeas and nays cannot be ordered in committee of the whole [ยง 32].
In Congress it requires but a one-fifth vote, and in some bodies a single member can require a vote to be taken by yeas and nays.
In Congress it can be made on the same or succeeding day; and if the yeas and nays were not taken on the vote, any one can move the reconsideration.
In some small bodies a vote on a resolution must be taken by yeas and nays, upon the demand of a single member.
The assembly can by a majority vote order that the vote on any question be taken by Yeas and Nays.
Taking a vote by yeas and nays, which has the effect to place on the record how each member votes, is peculiar to this country, and while it consumes a great deal of time, is rarely useful in ordinary societies.
The vote on its passage was 24 yeas to 12 nays, as follows.
On these propositions the final vote stood, yeas 19, nays 20, as follows.
As these 36 affirmative votes added to the 85 yeas would so nearly have overcome the adverse majority, John D.
On March 23 consideration of the question was voted down and the yeas and nays were refused.
He opposed the introduction of the bill as a revenue measure, and upon it demanded the yeas and nays: which were ordered.
He moved the indefinite postponement of the bill, and asked the yeas and nays on his motion; which were ordered.
If there were any individuals having such feeling, he wished to know them; he wished to hear their names upon yeas and nays.
It was Mr. Calhoun who called for theyeas and nays on each of these questions.
States, was presented to this body by the society of Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and that the same question upon its reception was made, and decided by yeas and nays, 19 to 9, in favor of receiving it.
Mr. Mercer asked for the yeas and nays, which being taken showed the astonishing spectacle of seventy-three members recording their names against the motion.
This amendment was voted down, yeas 10, nays 36, the Senate thus declaring its understanding that the people of the new territories should not be allowed to prohibit slavery previous to their admission as a State.
The prosecution objected and the yeas and nays were ordered.
The vote on its passage in the Senate was 29 yeas to 14 nays--all the yeas being Republican, and all but two of the nays Democratic.
Mr. Pugh's substitute (the Crittenden Proposition), was lost by 14 yeas to 25 nays.
The Clark substitute was then rejected by 14 yeas to 22 nays.
These resolutions were adopted by 78 yeas to 52 nays--the yeas all Republicans, save two, and the nays all Democrats, save seven.
The motion was defeated by 25 yeas to 30 nays--Messrs.
This amendment was also rejected, by 14 yeasto 25 nays.
The Crittenden Proposition itself was then rejected, by 19 yeas to 20 nays.
Mr. Crittenden then offered the Propositions of the Peace Congress, as a substitute for his own-and they were rejected by 7 yeas to 28 nays.
The House Joint Resolution was then adopted by 24 yeas to 12 nays.
Mr. Doolittle's amendment was lost by 18 yeas to 28 nays.
But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for or against the bill be entered on the journal of each house respectively.
But, in all such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays; and the names of the persons voting for or against the bill shall be entered in the Journal of each House respectively.
On the "yeas and nays" or at any roll-call some would dodge out of sight, others break for the doors only to find them closed.
A motion made to reconsider the vote refusing to excuse him was lost--yeas fifty-nine, nays seventy-four.
But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.
The next day, January 8th, the bill was passed over the veto by the House of Representatives, without debate, by a vote of one hundred and thirteen yeas to thirty-eight nays.
Mr. Lane accordingly made four successive motions to adjourn, in each of which he called for the yeas and nays.
A motion was then made to lay the resolution on the table, and the yeas and nays demanded.
The question being taken whether the bill should pass over the President's veto, the Senate decided in the affirmative by a vote of twenty-nine yeas to ten nays.
This having been done, the vote was taken by yeas and nays on the concurrent resolution submitted by Mr. Stevens.
But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively.
But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the name of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journals of each house respectively.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
