Senate roll call 419 · 47th Congress · May 31, 1882
To amend S. 126 by reducing the amounts invested in state bonds from $251,055.97 to $176,755.97, in order to relieve taxpayers of liability for sums invested by
On May 31, 1882, the Senate voted 16–29 (S 126). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 12–12, Democrats 5–16, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 17 members voted against their own party.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 16
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- May 31, 1882
By party
- Democrats5 yes · 16 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans12 yes · 12 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted yes
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted no
- Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
- Warner Miller R-NY voted no
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Sherman R-OH
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Warner Miller R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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