Senate roll call 457 · 45th Congress · Feb 19, 1879
To amend 6143, by reducing the $200,000 appropriation to $100,000 for ocean mail steamship service between the U.S. And brazil, directing the post master genera
On Feb 19, 1879, the Senate voted 25–29 (HR 6143). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 11–22, Democrats 18–10, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 21 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
- 25
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Feb 19, 1879
By party
- Republicans11 yes · 22 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats18 yes · 10 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted no
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted no
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted yes
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA voted no
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN voted yes
- James Shields D-MO voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted yes
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted yes
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted yes
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- James Shields D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Did not vote
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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