Senate roll call 66 · 48th Congress · Mar 5, 1884
To table the amendment to S. 729, (app. Feb. 13, 1885) (23 stat. L. 302) protecting children in the district of columbia, which amendment provides that vagrant
On Mar 5, 1884, the Senate voted 36–18 (S 729). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 12–16, Republicans 23–2, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 members voted against their own party.
During the 48th Congress (1883–1884), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 36
- No
- 18
- Did not vote
- 23
- Date
- Mar 5, 1884
By party
- Democrats12 yes · 16 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans23 yes · 2 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- James David Walker D-AR voted yes
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted yes
- James Black Groome D-MD voted yes
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- George Graham Vest D-MO voted yes
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted yes
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted yes
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger O-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- William Paine Sheffield R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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