Senate roll call 381 · 49th Congress · Feb 11, 1887
To amend a resolution relating to the rejection of pension claims of applicants because they have also applied to Congress for relief, by providing that the SEC
On Feb 11, 1887, the Senate voted 21–31. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–32, Democrats 22–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 21
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Feb 11, 1887
By party
- Democrats22 yes · 0 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 32 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- 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
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Abram Pease Williams R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- 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
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- George Gray D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- William Mahone R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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