Senate roll call 135 · 55th Congress · Jun 24, 1897
To amend an amendment to H.R. 379, reducing the duty on webbings, gorings, suspenders, braces, beltings, bindings, braids, galoons, fringes, cords, tassels, dre
On Jun 24, 1897, the Senate voted 23–27 (HR 379). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–25, Democrats 22–1, Others 2–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 55th Congress (1897–1898), William McKinley was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 23
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 44
- Date
- Jun 24, 1897
By party
- Democrats22 yes · 1 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 25 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Edmund Winston Pettus D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Mallory White D-CA
- George Gray D-DE
- Richard Rolland Kenney D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Henry Heitfeld O-ID
- David Turpie D-IN
- William Alexander Harris O-KS
- Donelson Caffery D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- William Nathaniel Roach D-ND
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- Horace Chilton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Lafayette Rawlins D-UT
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller O-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- George Laird Shoup R-ID
- Charles Warren Fairbanks R-IN
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- George Louis Wellington R-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- William Morris Stewart O-NV
- Joseph Benson Foraker R-OH
- George Wycliffe Mcbride R-OR
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
Did not vote
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Edward Oliver Wolcott R-CO
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Lucien Baker R-KS
- William Joseph Deboe R-KY
- William Lindsay D-KY
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- James Mcmillan R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- William Van Amberg Sullivan D-MS
- Lee Mantle O-MT
- Jeter Connelly Pritchard R-NC
- Marion Butler O-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- John Mellen Thurston R-NE
- William Vincent Allen O-NE
- James Smith Jr. D-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones O-NV
- Edward Murphy Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Marcus Alonzo (Mark) Hanna R-OH
- Joseph Simon R-OR
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- Joseph Haynsworth Earle D-SC
- James Henderson Kyle O-SD
- Richard Franklin Pettigrew O-SD
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Thomas Battle Turley D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- Frank Jenne Cannon O-UT
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Jonathan Ross R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- George Turner O-WA
- John Lendrum Mitchell D-WI
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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