Senate roll call 528 · 45th Congress · Feb 28, 1879
To amend H.R. 6462, by suspending the sinking fund law for two years and applying these funds to the purpose of this bill.
On Feb 28, 1879, the Senate voted 26–34 (HR 6462). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 22–8, Republicans 3–26, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 11 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
- 34
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- Feb 28, 1879
By party
- Republicans3 yes · 26 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats22 yes · 8 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- James Shields D-MO voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted no
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- James Shields D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-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
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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