Senate roll call 486 · 46th Congress · Feb 8, 1881
To amend H.R. 6532 by appropriating $200,000 to be made immediately available for fifty additional examiners and renting space for pensions office and for addit
On Feb 8, 1881, the Senate voted 39–21 (HR 6532). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 13–21, Republicans 27–0. 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
- 39
- No
- 21
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Feb 8, 1881
By party
- Democrats13 yes · 21 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans27 yes · 0 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted yes
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted yes
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted yes
- James Black Groome D-MD voted yes
- George Graham Vest D-MO voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted yes
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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