Senate roll call 84 · 44th Congress · Mar 2, 1876
To amend S. 359, (19 stat. 9), a bill incorporating the washington inebriate asylum in dist. Of columbia, by striking section 11, providing that no person shall
On Mar 2, 1876, the Senate voted 19–25 (S 359). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 7–21, Democrats 12–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 11 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
- 25
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Mar 2, 1876
By party
- Republicans7 yes · 21 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats12 yes · 4 no · 18 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC voted yes
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- James Edward English D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Newton Booth O-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
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