Senate roll call 59 · 47th Congress · Mar 30, 1881
That when the Senate adjourns today it will do so until the first monday of next december, since it cannot agree to go into executive business, thereby preventi
On Mar 30, 1881, the Senate voted 23–28. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–31, Democrats 24–0, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), James A. Garfield was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 23
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Mar 30, 1881
By party
- Democrats24 yes · 0 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 31 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- 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
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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