Senate roll call 203 · 44th Congress · Jun 19, 1876
To table, in order to defeat, 2nd clause of order of senator sherman, as amended, which declared, and the defendant william w. Belknap, having failed to answer
On Jun 19, 1876, the Senate voted 21–26. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–24, Democrats 19–1, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 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
- 21
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Jun 19, 1876
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 24 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats19 yes · 1 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- 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
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill 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
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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