Senate roll call 223 · 45th Congress · May 8, 1878
To amend H.R. 4549 by withholding $20,000 appropriations for removing nez perce' indians from fort leavenworth,kan., to the indian territory, and for their clot
On May 8, 1878, the Senate voted 21–27 (HR 4549). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 8–18, Republicans 13–9. 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
- 21
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- May 8, 1878
By party
- Republicans13 yes · 9 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats8 yes · 18 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted no
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA voted yes
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted no
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted no
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted yes
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- 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
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
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