Senate roll call 320 · 49th Congress · Dec 7, 1886
To refer to the committee on commerce, a resolution asking the secretary of war to advise the Senate as to changes made by the U.S. Engineers in charge of const
On Dec 7, 1886, the Senate voted 18–34. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–31, Democrats 18–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 3 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
- 18
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Dec 7, 1886
By party
- Democrats18 yes · 3 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 31 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Abram Pease Williams R-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Person Colby Cheney R-NH
- Warner Miller R-NY
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- 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 Henderson Berry D-AR
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- George Gray D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- William Mahone R-VA
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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