Senate roll call 483 · 46th Congress · Feb 4, 1881
To amend the resolution by declaring that, in the Senate's opinion, neither house nor the Senate President is invested with the right to count electoral votes.
On Feb 4, 1881, the Senate voted 28–33. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–33, Republicans 25–0, Independents 1–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 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
- 28
- No
- 33
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Feb 4, 1881
By party
- Democrats3 yes · 33 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans25 yes · 0 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- 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
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey 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
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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