Senate roll call 230 · 45th Congress · May 13, 1878
To amend H.R. 4246 (20-stat-140), a bill making appropriations for post office for fiscal 1879, by allowing the post master general to appoint one agent at a sa
On May 13, 1878, the Senate voted 32–13 (HR 4246). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 22–5, Democrats 10–8. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 13 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
- 32
- No
- 13
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- May 13, 1878
By party
- Republicans22 yes · 5 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats10 yes · 8 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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