Senate roll call 168 · 45th Congress · Mar 22, 1878
To table an amendment to H.R. 3102, reducing the appropriation for the expense of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land claims, trespasses on public la
On Mar 22, 1878, the Senate voted 25–26 (HR 3102). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 9–17, Republicans 16–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 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
- 25
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Mar 22, 1878
By party
- Republicans16 yes · 9 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats9 yes · 17 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted no
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted no
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted yes
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted yes
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted yes
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME voted no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted yes
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted yes
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted no
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent 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
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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