Senate roll call 317 · 46th Congress · May 6, 1880
To go into executive session, thus ending debate and preventing a vote on H.R. 5896. (p. 3072-1, -2)
On May 6, 1880, the Senate voted 13–33. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 12–15, Republicans 0–18, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 12 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
- 13
- No
- 33
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- May 6, 1880
By party
- Democrats12 yes · 15 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 18 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted yes
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted yes
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted yes
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted yes
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted yes
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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