Senate roll call 14 · 49th Congress · Dec 15, 1885
To amend a rule forbidding the sale of liquor in the capitol by providing that a senator or representative who may violate this rule is subject to expulsion.
On Dec 15, 1885, the Senate voted 20–38. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–24, Democrats 14–14. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 20 members voted against their own party.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 20
- No
- 38
- Did not vote
- 23
- Date
- Dec 15, 1885
By party
- Democrats14 yes · 14 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 24 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Henderson Berry D-AR voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted no
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD voted no
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted yes
- James Zachariah George D-MS voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted no
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE voted yes
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR voted yes
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- William Mahone R-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Gray D-DE
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- William Mahone R-VA
How each senator voted: No
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Abram Pease Williams R-CA
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Person Colby Cheney R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Warner Miller R-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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