Senate roll call 272 · 50th Congress · Jan 9, 1889
To amend the substitute for H. R. 9051, by admitting bituminors coal, and shale free from duty, instead of duty of 75 cents per long ton tax.
On Jan 9, 1889, the Senate voted 11–31 (HR 9051). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 11–11, Republicans 0–22. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 11 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
- 11
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Jan 9, 1889
By party
- Democrats11 yes · 11 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 22 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- David Turpie D-IN voted no
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD voted no
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD voted no
- Henry B. Payne D-OH voted no
- William Brimage Bate D-TN voted no
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA voted no
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV voted no
- John Edward Kenna D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- George Gray D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- David Turpie D-IN
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- 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
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- George Hearst D-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- 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
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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