Senate roll call 711 · 47th Congress · Jan 22, 1883
To amend H.R. 5538 by fixing a 20% ad valorem duty on unfinished cabinet woods such as cedar, lignum-vitae, lance-wood, ebony, box, mahogany, rose and satinwood
On Jan 22, 1883, the Senate voted 10–34 (HR 5538). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–22, Democrats 9–13. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 11 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
- 10
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Jan 22, 1883
By party
- Democrats9 yes · 13 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 22 no · 19 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted yes
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted yes
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted yes
- James Zachariah George D-MS voted yes
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted yes
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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