Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1882 — The Vote on the River and Harbor Bill. [ARTICLE]

The Vote on the River and Harbor Bill.

The St. Paul Pioneer-Press publishes the following synopsis of the vote on passing the River and Harbor bill over the President’s veto. It shows that in both houses a much larger per cent, ol Democrats than of Republicans voted for the bill, and a much smaller per cent, against it: * Vote in donee, total 181 Total Republican vote.. 98 Republicans voting for 65: or, 66 per cent Republicans voting against 33; or, 34 per cent Total Democratic vote 88 Democrats voting for 1... t-1 ; or, 68 per cent Democrats voting against 26; or, 32 per cent Vote In Senate, tote 1 57 Total Repubican vote..'. 31 Repub loans voting for 18; or, 58 per cent Republicans voting against 13; or, 42 per cent ot>d Democratic vote 26 Democrats voting for 22; or, 89 per cent Democrats voting against 3; or, 11 per cent. Republican vote in both houses 129. Republicans voting for 8!; or, 64 per cent Republicans voting against 46; or, 36 per cent Democratic vote in both homes 109 Democrats voting for 80; or, 73 per cent Democrats voting against 29; or, 27 per cent Total vote in both booties 288 R publicans votinif tor. 83; or, 35 per cent. Republicans voting against...... 46; or, 19 per cent Democrats voting for 80; or, 34 per cent Derti’ocrats.votlng against 29; or, 12 per cent This analysis ought to stop the mouths of the Democratic politicians who seek to malce party capital out of the passage of the River and Harbor bill. The Democrats in Congress are as deep in the mud as the Republicans are in the mire.— Chicago Journal.