Senate roll call 192 · 50th Congress · Dec 5, 1888
To amend a substitute to H. R. 9051 which substitute repeals internal revenue laws relevant to tobacco and snuff, by abolishing mandatory minimum penalty of fin
On Dec 5, 1888, the Senate voted 17–28 (HR 9051). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–29, Democrats 21–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 2 members voted against their own party.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 17
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- Dec 5, 1888
By party
- Democrats21 yes · 2 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 29 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- Henry B. Payne D-OH voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Gray D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- George Hearst D-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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