Senate roll call 567 · 45th Congress · Mar 1, 1879
To amend H.R. 6462 by providing that this act shall apply to officers and soldiers who served in the winnebago and the black hawk wars.
On Mar 1, 1879, the Senate voted 17–37 (HR 6462). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 17–11, Democrats 0–27. 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
- 17
- No
- 37
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Mar 1, 1879
By party
- Republicans17 yes · 11 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 27 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR voted no
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted no
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted no
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted no
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted no
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted no
- John James Patterson R-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- 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
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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