Senate roll call 373 · 49th Congress · Feb 4, 1887
To amend S. 2578 by making it unlawful for any member of either house of Congress to accept employment as attorney-at-law, or payment for services from any rail
On Feb 4, 1887, the Senate voted 17–36 (S 2578). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 4–32, Democrats 18–8. 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
- 36
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Feb 4, 1887
By party
- Democrats18 yes · 8 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 32 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- George Gray D-DE voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA voted yes
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE voted yes
- Henry B. Payne D-OH voted no
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh 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
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- George Gray D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye 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
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Person Colby Cheney R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- William Mahone R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Warner Miller R-NY
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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