Senate roll call 116 · 45th Congress · Feb 8, 1878
To amend S. 265, a bill remitting taxes on insolvent savings banks, by extending the same exemptions from taxes on merchantile deposits that is given to savings
On Feb 8, 1878, the Senate voted 28–27 (S 265). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 24–6, Democrats 4–21. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 28
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Feb 8, 1878
By party
- Republicans24 yes · 6 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Democrats4 yes · 21 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted no
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO voted no
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted yes
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted no
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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