Senate roll call 351 · 49th Congress · Jan 26, 1887
To have the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of james c. Matthews as recorder of deeds in the district of columbia.
On Jan 26, 1887, the Senate voted 17–31. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–26, Democrats 18–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 12 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
- 17
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Jan 26, 1887
By party
- Democrats18 yes · 9 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 26 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA voted no
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted no
- Henry William Blair R-NH voted yes
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Gray D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Abram Pease Williams R-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Warner Miller R-NY
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- William Mahone R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Person Colby Cheney R-NH
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- 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
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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