Senate roll call 281 · 44th Congress · Jul 22, 1876
To amend S. 3022 by a substitute providing that $4,000,000 be appropriated for improvement of rivers and harbors to be expended under direction of secretary of
On Jul 22, 1876, the Senate voted 12–27 (HR 3022). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 12–13, Democrats 1–16, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 13 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
- 12
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 39
- Date
- Jul 22, 1876
By party
- Republicans12 yes · 13 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Democrats1 yes · 16 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George Grover Wright R-IA voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted yes
- John White Stevenson D-KY voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH voted yes
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted yes
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth O-CA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- 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 Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-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
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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