Senate roll call 486 · 45th Congress · Feb 24, 1879
To amend H.R. 6145, by appropriating $100,000 for such magazine arms as are selected by the SEC'y of war for competitive trial by troops in the field, before ac
On Feb 24, 1879, the Senate voted 12–44 (HR 6145). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 7–23, Democrats 5–20, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 12 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
- 12
- No
- 44
- Did not vote
- 26
- Date
- Feb 24, 1879
By party
- Republicans7 yes · 23 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Democrats5 yes · 20 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted yes
- John Brown Gordon D-GA voted yes
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted yes
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- 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
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
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