Senate roll call 281 · 50th Congress · Jan 10, 1889
To amend the substitute for H. R. 9051, by reducing the duty on matches, from ten cents per gross to 35 per cent ad valorem.
On Jan 10, 1889, the Senate voted 20–24 (HR 9051). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–24, Democrats 20–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 20
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Jan 10, 1889
By party
- Democrats20 yes · 1 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 24 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- George Gray D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- 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
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- George Hearst D-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- David Turpie D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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