Senate roll call 492 · 46th Congress · Feb 14, 1881
To decide a point of order raised during debate on H.R. 6972. The point of order is that the amendment giving foreign-builty ships the same privileges as ameri
On Feb 14, 1881, the Senate voted 18–32 (HR 6972). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 15–16, Republicans 3–15, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 18 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
- 18
- No
- 32
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Feb 14, 1881
By party
- Democrats15 yes · 16 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 15 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- James David Walker D-AR voted yes
- James Thompson Farley D-CA voted yes
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted yes
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted yes
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted yes
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- 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
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte 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
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- 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
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
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