Senate roll call 416 · 46th Congress · Dec 17, 1880
To amend S. 133 by striking the section that gave the commissioner of education power, under the direction of secretary of the interior, to allot certain shares
On Dec 17, 1880, the Senate voted 22–37 (S 133). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 22–8, Republicans 0–28, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 8 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
- 22
- No
- 37
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- Dec 17, 1880
By party
- Democrats22 yes · 8 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 28 no · 7 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
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- 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
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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