Senate roll call 561 · 46th Congress · Mar 3, 1881
To go into executive session. (p. 2419-1)
On Mar 3, 1881, the Senate voted 26–10. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 21–7, Republicans 5–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 10 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
- 10
- Did not vote
- 45
- Date
- Mar 3, 1881
By party
- Democrats21 yes · 7 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans5 yes · 3 no · 27 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- 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
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To go into executive session. (p. 2419-1): Senate Vote, Mar 3, 1881,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/46-S-561/to-go-into-executive-session-p-2419-1 (accessed 2026-10-15).