Senate roll call 238 · 45th Congress · May 21, 1878
To insist on an amendment to and ask for further conference by the house, on H.R. 2507.
On May 21, 1878, the Senate voted 53–0 (HR 2507). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 27–0, Democrats 25–0, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 53
- No
- 0
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- May 21, 1878
By party
- Republicans27 yes · 0 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats25 yes · 0 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- 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
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- 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
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers 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
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- 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
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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