Senate roll call 372 · 45th Congress · Jan 20, 1879
To amend S. 300, by providing that no patent be reissued unless it embraces the original invention, to protect the public from the flagrant abuses of the patent
On Jan 20, 1879, the Senate voted 39–0 (S 300). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 19–0, Democrats 19–0, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 39
- No
- 0
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Jan 20, 1879
By party
- Republicans19 yes · 0 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats19 yes · 0 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
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
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- 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
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- 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
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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