Senate roll call 195 · 46th Congress · Dec 18, 1879
To go into executive session in order to terminate debate on a resolution on negro emigration.
On Dec 18, 1879, the Senate voted 16–30. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–23, Republicans 12–6, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 16
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Dec 18, 1879
By party
- Democrats4 yes · 23 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans12 yes · 6 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted yes
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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