Senate roll call 453 · 53rd Congress · Aug 16, 1894
To table the resolution authorizing the committee on patents to sit during the recess of Congress to investigate proposed charges in the patend laws and report
On Aug 16, 1894, the Senate voted 20–25. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 16–13, Republicans 3–11, Others 1–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 16 members voted against their own party.
During the 53rd Congress (1893–1894), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 20
- No
- 25
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Aug 16, 1894
By party
- Democrats16 yes · 13 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 11 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Mallory White D-CA voted no
- Anthony Higgins R-DE voted yes
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- John McAuley Palmer D-IL voted no
- John Martin D-KS voted no
- William Lindsay D-KY voted no
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted no
- James Zachariah George D-MS voted no
- William Nathaniel Roach D-ND voted no
- James Smith Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Edward Murphy Jr. D-NY voted no
- John Sherman R-OH voted yes
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- William Brimage Bate D-TN voted no
- John Lendrum Mitchell D-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Anthony Higgins R-DE
- Patrick Walsh D-GA
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Donelson Caffery D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Anselm Joseph Mclaurin D-MS
- Thomas Jordan Jarvis D-NC
- William Morris Stewart O-NV
- Calvin Stewart Brice D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Freeman Vilas D-WI
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Stephen Mallory White D-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- George Laird Shoup R-ID
- John McAuley Palmer D-IL
- John Martin D-KS
- William Alfred Peffer O-KS
- William Lindsay D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- William Nathaniel Roach D-ND
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- James Smith Jr. D-NJ
- Edward Murphy Jr. D-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Henderson Kyle O-SD
- Richard Franklin Pettigrew R-SD
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Lendrum Mitchell D-WI
- Joseph Maull Carey R-WY
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Edward Oliver Wolcott R-CO
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- George Gray D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Fred Thomas Dubois R-ID
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- David Turpie D-IN
- Edward Douglass White D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- James Mcmillan R-MI
- John Patton Jr. R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Lee Mantle R-MT
- Thomas Charles Power R-MT
- Jeter Connelly Pritchard R-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- William Vincent Allen O-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- David Bennett Hill D-NY
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Laurens Manning Irby D-SC
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Watson Carvosso Squire R-WA
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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