Senate roll call 428 · 44th Congress · Mar 3, 1877
To amend H.R. 4691, a bill making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1878 by eliminating all after the enacting clau
On Mar 3, 1877, the Senate voted 32–23 (HR 4691). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 33–0, Democrats 0–24. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 44th Congress (1875–1876), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 32
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Mar 3, 1877
By party
- Republicans33 yes · 0 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 24 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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