Senate roll call 432 · 46th Congress · Jan 13, 1881
To refer S.J.RES. 402, a resolution relating to the franking privilege, to the committee on post offices and post roads. (p. 548-1)
On Jan 13, 1881, the Senate voted 27–23 (SJR 402). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 26–6, Republicans 2–17, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 8 members voted against their own party.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 27
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Jan 13, 1881
By party
- Democrats26 yes · 6 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 17 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted no
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted no
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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