Senate roll call 121 · 45th Congress · Feb 15, 1878
To pass H. RES. 90, a resolution declaring that a reduction of the tax on distilled spirits is inexpedient.
On Feb 15, 1878, the Senate voted 40–9 (HR 90). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 26–1, Democrats 14–8. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 9 members voted against their own party.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 40
- No
- 9
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Feb 15, 1878
By party
- Republicans26 yes · 1 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats14 yes · 8 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD voted no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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