Senate roll call 470 · 46th Congress · Feb 2, 1881
To amend the resolution providing that electoral votes be listed when they are opened by the Senate President, instead of listing the votes as they are declared
On Feb 2, 1881, the Senate voted 27–33. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 8–28, Republicans 19–4, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 12 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
- 33
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- Feb 2, 1881
By party
- Democrats8 yes · 28 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans19 yes · 4 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted yes
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted yes
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- George Graham Vest D-MO voted yes
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted yes
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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