Senate roll call 521 · 46th Congress · Feb 25, 1881
To amend H.R. 7099 (21 stat 381), a bill making agricultural department appropriation for fiscal year ending june 30, 1882, by appropriating $5,000 to the entom
On Feb 25, 1881, the Senate voted 26–31 (HR 7099). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 10–24, Republicans 16–6, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 16 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
- 26
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- Feb 25, 1881
By party
- Democrats10 yes · 24 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans16 yes · 6 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted no
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted yes
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted yes
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted yes
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
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
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
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