Senate roll call 197 · 44th Congress · Jun 17, 1876
To adjourn because of an apparent lack of quorum, in order to be able to present H.R. 3478, (19 stat. 176), the indian appropriation bill for the fiscal year en
On Jun 17, 1876, the Senate voted 19–16. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 17–5, Democrats 2–10, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 7 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
- 19
- No
- 16
- Did not vote
- 47
- Date
- Jun 17, 1876
By party
- Republicans17 yes · 5 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats2 yes · 10 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted no
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted no
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted no
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted no
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC voted no
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Newton Booth O-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- 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
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Angus Cameron 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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