Senate roll call 415 · 49th Congress · Feb 25, 1887
To amend a resolution providing that john j. Ingalls be chosen President pro tempore of the Senate by naming isham g. Harris to that office.
On Feb 25, 1887, the Senate voted 26–39. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–39, Democrats 27–0. 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
- 26
- No
- 39
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Feb 25, 1887
By party
- Democrats27 yes · 0 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 39 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- George Gray D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck 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
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- 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
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- 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
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- 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
- 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
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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