Senate roll call 158 · 45th Congress · Mar 11, 1878
To amend S. 346, a bill dealing with the claims of benjamin holladay, by showing the Senate that competent testimony was presented in the case of MR. Holliday.
On Mar 11, 1878, the Senate voted 27–23 (S 346). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 10–18, Democrats 18–7, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 17 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
- 27
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 28
- Date
- Mar 11, 1878
By party
- Republicans10 yes · 18 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats18 yes · 7 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted no
- John Brown Gordon D-GA voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted yes
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI voted yes
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- La Fayette Grover D-OR voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI voted yes
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- 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
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
Other votes
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