Senate roll call 185 · 44th Congress · Jun 9, 1876
To amend H.R. 3263, (19 stat. 78), the post office appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1877, by increasing the appropriation for the compensa
On Jun 9, 1876, the Senate voted 22–15 (HR 3263). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 4–16, Republicans 17–0, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 44th Congress (1875–1876), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 22
- No
- 15
- Did not vote
- 44
- Date
- Jun 9, 1876
By party
- Republicans17 yes · 0 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Democrats4 yes · 16 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD voted yes
- Henry Cooper D-TN voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Newton Booth O-CA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
Did not vote
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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