Senate roll call 37 · 51st Congress · Feb 20, 1890
To refer to the committee on judiciary the resolution authorizing the attorney general to obtain information relating to the assassination of w. B. Saunders, u.
On Feb 20, 1890, the Senate voted 19–25. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–27, Democrats 21–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 51st Congress (1889–1890), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 19
- No
- 25
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Feb 20, 1890
By party
- Democrats21 yes · 0 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 27 no · 26 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
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- 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
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Mcmillan R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Lyman Rufus Casey R-ND
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Gideon Curtis Moody R-SD
- Richard Franklin Pettigrew R-SD
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Beard Allen R-WA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- George Hearst D-CA
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Edward Oliver Wolcott R-CO
- Anthony Higgins R-DE
- George Gray D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- George Laird Shoup R-ID
- William John Mcconnell R-ID
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar 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
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Thomas Charles Power R-MT
- Wilbur Fiske Sanders R-MT
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Gilbert Ashville Pierce R-ND
- Gilman Marston R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Watson Carvosso Squire R-WA
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
- Joseph Maull Carey R-WY
Other votes
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