Senate roll call 313 · 47th Congress · Mar 21, 1882
To amend H.R. 1049 by reducing from two years to one year the time period of service required for men who have died in the life-saving service in order to quali
On Mar 21, 1882, the Senate voted 22–30 (HR 1049). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–21, Democrats 16–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 15 members voted against their own party.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 22
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Mar 21, 1882
By party
- Democrats16 yes · 9 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 21 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted yes
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- 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
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted no
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted yes
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
- John Sherman R-OH voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- 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
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Warner Miller R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Other votes
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