Senate roll call 14 · 57th Congress · Feb 22, 1902
To admit the public to the hearing of the two senators from south carolina declared in contempt on account of an altercation and personal encounter between them
On Feb 22, 1902, the Senate voted 18–44. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–43, Democrats 16–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 57th Congress (1901–1902), Theodore Roosevelt was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 18
- No
- 44
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Feb 22, 1902
By party
- Democrats16 yes · 1 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 43 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL voted no
- George Louis Wellington R-MD voted yes
- John Coit Spooner R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller D-CO
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- James Piper Taliaferro D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- George Louis Wellington R-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Paris Gibson D-MT
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Edward Ward Carmack D-TN
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- Joseph Lafayette Rawlins D-UT
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- George Turner D-WA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Thomas Robert Bard R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Charles Warren Fairbanks R-IN
- Joseph Ralph Burton R-KS
- William Joseph Deboe R-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- James Mcmillan R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Jeter Connelly Pritchard R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Charles Henry Dietrich R-NE
- Joseph Hopkins Millard R-NE
- Henry Eben Burnham R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Joseph Benson Foraker R-OH
- Marcus Alonzo (Mark) Hanna R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Simon R-OR
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Alfred Beard Kittredge R-SD
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- Thomas Kearns R-UT
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- Addison Gardner Foster R-WA
- Joseph Very Quarles R-WI
- Nathan Bay Scott R-WV
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Did not vote
- Edmund Winston Pettus D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- James Frank Allee R-DE
- Lewis Heisler Ball R-DE
- Fred Thomas Dubois D-ID
- Henry Heitfeld D-ID
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN
- William Alexander Harris O-KS
- Murphy James Foster D-LA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Russell Alexander Alger R-MI
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Anselm Joseph Mclaurin D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- William Andrews Clark D-MT
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- William Vincent Allen O-NE
- John Fairfield Dryden R-NJ
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- James Henderson Kyle R-SD
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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