Senate roll call 396 · 45th Congress · Feb 3, 1879
To amend a resolution providing that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the votes upon the nomination of e.a. Merritt and s.w. Burt, by removing secrecy
On Feb 3, 1879, the Senate voted 26–25. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 5–23, Democrats 21–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 7 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
- 26
- No
- 25
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Feb 3, 1879
By party
- Republicans5 yes · 23 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats21 yes · 2 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted yes
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Shields D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- 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
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
Cite or embed this page
Capitol Receipts, “To amend a resolution providing that the…: Senate Vote, Feb 3, 1879,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-S-396/to-amend-a-resolution-providing-that-the-injunction-of (accessed 2026-10-17).