Senate roll call 16 · 56th Congress · Feb 15, 1900
To amend H. R. 1, by declaring it is the fixed policy of the United States to pay and clear off the national debt as rapidly as just and equal taxation, and the
On Feb 15, 1900, the Senate voted 27–47 (HR 1). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–45, Democrats 22–2, Others 5–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 56th Congress (1899–1900), William McKinley was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 27
- No
- 47
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Feb 15, 1900
By party
- Democrats22 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 45 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Lindsay D-KY voted no
- Donelson Caffery D-LA voted no
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Edmund Winston Pettus D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller O-CO
- Richard Rolland Kenney D-DE
- James Piper Taliaferro D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Henry Heitfeld O-ID
- William Alexander Harris O-KS
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- William Van Amberg Sullivan D-MS
- William Andrews Clark D-MT
- John Percival Jones O-NV
- William Morris Stewart O-NV
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- Thomas Battle Turley D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Horace Chilton D-TX
- Joseph Lafayette Rawlins D-UT
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
How each senator voted: No
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Edward Oliver Wolcott R-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
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN
- Charles Warren Fairbanks R-IN
- William Joseph Deboe R-KY
- William Lindsay D-KY
- Donelson Caffery D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- James Mcmillan R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Jeter Connelly Pritchard R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- John Mellen Thurston R-NE
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Joseph Benson Foraker R-OH
- Marcus Alonzo (Mark) Hanna R-OH
- George Wycliffe Mcbride R-OR
- Joseph Simon R-OR
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Richard Franklin Pettigrew O-SD
- Jonathan Ross R-VT
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
- Addison Gardner Foster R-WA
- George Turner O-WA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Joseph Very Quarles R-WI
- Nathan Bay Scott R-WV
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Did not vote
- Thomas Robert Bard R-CA
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Lucien Baker R-KS
- George Louis Wellington R-MD
- Charles Arnette Towne D-MN
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- Marion Butler O-NC
- Monroe Leland Hayward R-NE
- William Vincent Allen O-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- James Henderson Kyle O-SD
- Thomas Kearns R-UT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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