Senate roll call 233 · 50th Congress · Dec 19, 1888
To amend the substitute for H. R. 9051, by eliminating the duty of 25 per cent ad valorem on all needles, thus admitting them duty free.
On Dec 19, 1888, the Senate voted 20–22 (HR 9051). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–24, Democrats 22–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 20
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 30
- Date
- Dec 19, 1888
By party
- Democrats22 yes · 0 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 24 no · 15 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
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- 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
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- George Gray D-DE
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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