Senate roll call 225 · 46th Congress · Feb 18, 1880
To proceed to the consideration of S. 35 (21 stat 550, app june 9, 1880), a bill granting a pension to herman netterfield. (p. 963-2)
On Feb 18, 1880, the Senate voted 25–36. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–30, Republicans 21–5, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 9 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
- 25
- No
- 36
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Feb 18, 1880
By party
- Democrats4 yes · 30 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans21 yes · 5 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted yes
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted yes
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted no
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Sharon R-NV
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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