Senate roll call 485 · 46th Congress · Feb 8, 1881
To decide a point of order raised during debate on H.R. 6532. The point of order is that the amendment providing fifty additional examiners in the offices of t
On Feb 8, 1881, the Senate voted 31–24. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 10–21, Republicans 20–3, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 13 members voted against their own party.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 31
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 26
- Date
- Feb 8, 1881
By party
- Democrats10 yes · 21 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans20 yes · 3 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted yes
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted yes
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted yes
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted yes
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- William Sharon R-NV
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
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