Senate roll call 32 · 50th Congress · Feb 21, 1888
To amend S. 931, by providing that the company shall pay to the district of columbia as taxes ten per cent of its gross earnings per year.
On Feb 21, 1888, the Senate voted 17–17 (S 931). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 23–0, Republicans 1–22. 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
- 17
- No
- 17
- Did not vote
- 30
- Date
- Feb 21, 1888
By party
- Democrats23 yes · 0 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 22 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson 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
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Hearst D-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- George Gray D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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