Senate roll call 487 · 46th Congress · Feb 9, 1881
To table an amendment to H.R. 6532 appropriating $200,000 for fifty additional examiners and for rent for more space for the pensions office and for the number
On Feb 9, 1881, the Senate voted 27–18 (HR 6532). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 20–6, Republicans 7–12. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 13 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
- 18
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Feb 9, 1881
By party
- Democrats20 yes · 6 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Republicans7 yes · 12 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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