Senate roll call 259 · 44th Congress · Jul 13, 1876
To amend H.R. 3022, (19 stat. 132), the rivers and harbors appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1877, by eliminating an appropriation of ten t
On Jul 13, 1876, the Senate voted 14–30 (HR 3022). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 8–18, Democrats 6–12. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 14 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
- 14
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Jul 13, 1876
By party
- Republicans8 yes · 18 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats6 yes · 12 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted yes
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted yes
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted yes
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- 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
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
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