Senate roll call 235 · 45th Congress · May 20, 1878
To postpone pending order H.R. 805, a bill authorizing disposal of U.S. Bonds and redeeming and cancelling the greenback currency, in order to take up H.R. 4245
On May 20, 1878, the Senate voted 33–20 (HR 805). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 28–0, Republicans 6–20, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 6 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
- 33
- No
- 20
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- May 20, 1878
By party
- Republicans6 yes · 20 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Democrats28 yes · 0 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME voted yes
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted yes
- John James Patterson R-SC voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- 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
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- 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 Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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