Senate roll call 12 · 49th Congress · Dec 15, 1885
To amend the rule forbidding sale of liquor in capitol, by permitting sale of liquor.
On Dec 15, 1885, the Senate voted 20–36. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–29, Democrats 17–7. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 20
- No
- 36
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Dec 15, 1885
By party
- Democrats17 yes · 7 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 29 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Henderson Berry D-AR voted no
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted no
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE voted yes
- Henry B. Payne D-OH voted no
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- George Gray D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Abram Pease Williams R-CA
- George Hearst D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Person Colby Cheney R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Warner Miller R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- William Mahone R-VA
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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