Senate roll call 187 · 45th Congress · Apr 16, 1878
To pass S. 655, a bill incorporating the national pacific railroad and telegraph co.
On Apr 16, 1878, the Senate voted 39–9 (S 655). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 25–0, Democrats 14–10. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 10 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
- 39
- No
- 9
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Apr 16, 1878
By party
- Republicans25 yes · 0 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats14 yes · 10 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-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
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- 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
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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