Senate roll call 61 · 44th Congress · Feb 21, 1876
To amend S. 6, by making the benefits and effects of this bill apply to all the country which is subject to the same material conditions as california, oregon,
On Feb 21, 1876, the Senate voted 0–45 (S 6). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–23, Democrats 0–21, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 1 member 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
- 0
- No
- 45
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Feb 21, 1876
By party
- Republicans1 yes · 23 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 21 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
How each senator voted: No
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- James Edward English D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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