Senate roll call 840 · 47th Congress · Feb 13, 1883
To amend H.R. 5538 by reducing the tariff on bagging for cotton composed of jute butts, or of which jute butts shall be a component material, from 20% to 10% ad
On Feb 13, 1883, the Senate voted 17–39 (HR 5538). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 17–13, Republicans 2–26, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 15 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
- 17
- No
- 39
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- Feb 13, 1883
By party
- Democrats17 yes · 13 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 26 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted no
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted no
- James Black Groome D-MD voted no
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- La Fayette Grover D-OR voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- 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
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
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