Senate roll call 251 · 50th Congress · Jan 3, 1889
To amend the substitute for H. R. 9051, by reducing from 45 per cent ad valorem to 40 per cent duty on all cotton cloth exceeding 150 and not exceeding 200 thre
On Jan 3, 1889, the Senate voted 17–22 (HR 9051). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–22, Democrats 17–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 17
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Jan 3, 1889
By party
- Democrats17 yes · 0 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 22 no · 17 didn’t vote
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
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- George Gray D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Hearst D-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- David Turpie D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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