Senate roll call 202 · 45th Congress · Apr 25, 1878
That when the Senate adjourns today, it will meet again next monday instead of friday and saturday.
On Apr 25, 1878, the Senate voted 20–24. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 8–16, Democrats 12–8. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 16 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
- 20
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Apr 25, 1878
By party
- Republicans8 yes · 16 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats12 yes · 8 no · 18 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted no
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted yes
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted yes
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted yes
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted yes
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom 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
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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