Senate roll call 388 · 45th Congress · Jan 28, 1879
To order the engrossment and third reading of S. 855.
On Jan 28, 1879, the Senate voted 17–31 (S 855). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–25, Democrats 13–11, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 17 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
- 31
- Did not vote
- 26
- Date
- Jan 28, 1879
By party
- Republicans6 yes · 25 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats13 yes · 11 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR voted yes
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted yes
- John James Patterson R-SC voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Shields D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- 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
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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