DISCUSSION AND VOTE IN U. S. SENATE—1887.
absentees Senators Chace, Dawes, Plumb and Stanford announced that they would have voted "yea;" Jones of Arkansas and Butler that they would have voted "nay."
Thus on January 25, 1887, occurred the first and only discussion and vote in the United States Senate on the submission of an amendment to the Federal Constitution which should forbid disfranchisement on account of sex, that took place up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Nays: Beck, Ky.; Berry, Ark.; Blackburn, Ky.; Brown, Ga.; Call, Fla.; Cockrell, Mo.; Coke, Tex.; Colquitt, Ga.; Eustis, La.; Evarts, N. Y.; George, Miss.; Gray, Del.; Hampton, S. C.; Harris, Tenn.; Hawley, Conn.; Ingalls, Kan.; Jones, Nev.; McMillan, Mich.; McPherson, N. J.; Mahone, Va.; Morgan, Ala.; Morrill, Vt.; Payne, O.; Pugh, Ala.; Saulsbury, Del.; Sawyer, Wis.; Sewell, N. J.; Spooner, Wis.; Vance, N. C.; Vest, Mo.; Walthall, Miss.; Whitthorne, Tenn.; Williams, Cal.; Wilson, Md.—34.
Assent: Aldrich, R. I.; Allison, Ia.; Butler, S. C.; Camden, W. Va.; Cameron, Penn.; Chace, R. I.; Dawes, Mass.; Edmunds, Vt.; Fair, Nev.; Frye, Me.; Gibson, La.; Gorman, Md.; Hale, Me.; Harrison, Ind.; Jones, Ark.; Jones, Fla.; Kenna, W. Va.; Maxey, Tex.; Miller, N. Y.; Plumb, Kan.; Ransom, N. C.; Riddleberger, Va.; Sabin, Minn.; Stanford, Cal.; Van Wyck, Neb.; Voorhees, Ind.—26.
