Senate roll call 553 · 46th Congress · Mar 3, 1881
To pass H.R. 3292 (21 stat 652), a bill granting a pension to sallie m. Buchanan, widow of general robert c. Buchanan. (p. 2375-2)
On Mar 3, 1881, the Senate voted 30–16 (HR 3292). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 19–13, Republicans 11–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 16 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
- 30
- No
- 16
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Mar 3, 1881
By party
- Democrats19 yes · 13 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans11 yes · 3 no · 21 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- George Graham Vest D-MO voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-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
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- 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
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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