Senate roll call 296 · 50th Congress · Jan 11, 1889
To amend the substitute for H. R. 9051, by taking floor matting made from round or split straw, also chinese matting, from the free list and places them in duti
On Jan 11, 1889, the Senate voted 16–24 (HR 9051). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–25, Democrats 16–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 16
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Jan 11, 1889
By party
- Democrats16 yes · 1 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 25 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- George Gray D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Hearst D-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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