Senate roll call 494 · 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 dividing the lines between the atlantic, pacific and gul
On Feb 14, 1881, the Senate voted 16–23. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 13–10, Republicans 3–12, Independents 0–1. 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
- 16
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 42
- Date
- Feb 14, 1881
By party
- Democrats13 yes · 10 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 12 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- James Black Groome D-MD voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
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
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- 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
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- 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
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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