Senate roll call 116 · 44th Congress · Apr 4, 1876
To pass H.R. 700 (19 stat. 38), a bill incorporating the mutual protection fire-insurance company of the district of columbia. (p. 2178)
On Apr 4, 1876, the Senate voted 16–24 (HR 700). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 14–8, Democrats 2–15, Others 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 44th Congress (1875–1876), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 16
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 42
- Date
- Apr 4, 1876
By party
- Republicans14 yes · 8 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats2 yes · 15 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
- George Grover Wright R-IA voted no
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted no
- William Sharon R-NV voted no
- John Sherman R-OH voted no
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted no
- David McKendree Key D-TN voted yes
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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