Senate roll call 650 · 47th Congress · Dec 28, 1882
To amend S. 2288 by including any person acting on behalf of any political commission, or professing so to act, and shall send through the mails of the united s
On Dec 28, 1882, the Senate voted 17–24 (S 2288). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–23, Democrats 20–0, Independents 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 17
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 39
- Date
- Dec 28, 1882
By party
- Democrats20 yes · 0 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 23 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
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
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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