Senate roll call 104 · 57th Congress · Jan 27, 1903
To go into executive session, no quorum voting. (p. 1328-1)
On Jan 27, 1903, the Senate voted 10–27. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 9–16, Democrats 1–14, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 57th Congress (1901–1902), Theodore Roosevelt was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 10
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 53
- Date
- Jan 27, 1903
By party
- Democrats1 yes · 14 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans9 yes · 16 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- Russell Alexander Alger R-MI voted yes
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC voted yes
- Joseph Hopkins Millard R-NE voted yes
- John Fairfield Dryden R-NJ voted yes
- John Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI voted yes
- Alfred Beard Kittredge R-SD voted yes
- Nathan Bay Scott R-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- James Piper Taliaferro D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Fred Thomas Dubois D-ID
- Henry Heitfeld D-ID
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Joseph Ralph Burton R-KS
- William Alexander Harris O-KS
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- George Louis Wellington R-MD
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Anselm Joseph Mclaurin D-MS
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Joseph Benson Foraker R-OH
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Edward Ward Carmack D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- Addison Gardner Foster R-WA
- George Turner D-WA
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Did not vote
- Edmund Winston Pettus D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Thomas Robert Bard R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller D-CO
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- James Frank Allee R-DE
- Lewis Heisler Ball R-DE
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN
- Charles Warren Fairbanks R-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Joseph Deboe R-KY
- Murphy James Foster 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
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Paris Gibson D-MT
- William Andrews Clark D-MT
- Jeter Connelly Pritchard R-NC
- Charles Henry Dietrich R-NE
- William Vincent Allen O-NE
- Henry Eben Burnham R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Marcus Alonzo (Mark) Hanna R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Simon R-OR
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- James Henderson Kyle R-SD
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- Joseph Lafayette Rawlins D-UT
- Thomas Kearns R-UT
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Joseph Very Quarles R-WI
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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