Senate roll call 246 · 46th Congress · Mar 12, 1880
To amend H.R. 2287 (21 stat l. 109), a bill making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense and for the armament thereof for fiscal year end
On Mar 12, 1880, the Senate voted 47–12 (HR 2287). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 23–10, Republicans 24–1, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 11 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
- 47
- No
- 12
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- Mar 12, 1880
By party
- Democrats23 yes · 10 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 1 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted no
- James David Walker D-AR voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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