Senate roll call 469 · 45th Congress · Feb 20, 1879
To adjourn during action on H.R. 6143 and thereby kill an amendment providing that one of the two ocean mail steamship service lines, on alternate trips from ne
On Feb 20, 1879, the Senate voted 8–23. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 8–10, Republicans 0–14. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 8 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
- 8
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Feb 20, 1879
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 14 no · 29 didn’t vote
- Democrats8 yes · 10 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted yes
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted yes
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted yes
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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