Senate roll call 267 · 45th Congress · Jun 1, 1878
To amend the resolution providing for adjournment sine die by fixing june 25 as the date of final adjournment of both houses.
On Jun 1, 1878, the Senate voted 17–38. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–26, Democrats 15–12. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 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
- 17
- No
- 38
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Jun 1, 1878
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 26 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats15 yes · 12 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- John Brown Gordon D-GA voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted yes
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy 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
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- 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
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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