Senate roll call 735 · 47th Congress · Jan 27, 1883
To amend H.R. 5538 by levying the same duty on articles made from hoop, band or scroll iron as is levied on the kind of iron from which these articles are made,
On Jan 27, 1883, the Senate voted 23–24 (HR 5538). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 26–0, Republicans 1–23, Independents 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 23
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Jan 27, 1883
By party
- Democrats26 yes · 0 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 23 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- 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
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- 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
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Alvin Saunders 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
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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