Senate roll call 461 · 49th Congress · Mar 3, 1887
To table a motion to reconsider the veto on a resolution providing that a select committee to consist of five senators be constituted and appointed to investiga
On Mar 3, 1887, the Senate voted 14–43. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–30, Democrats 8–14. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 14 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
- 14
- No
- 43
- Did not vote
- 23
- Date
- Mar 3, 1887
By party
- Democrats8 yes · 14 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 30 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR voted yes
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted yes
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted yes
- George Gray D-DE voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted yes
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted yes
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- George Gray D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
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
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- 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
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- 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
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- William Mahone R-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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