Senate roll call 270 · 45th Congress · Jun 1, 1878
To recommit with instructions the resolution paying the award made by fisheries commission at halifax, in order to have committee on foreign relations report WH
On Jun 1, 1878, the Senate voted 17–28. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 9–17, Democrats 10–13. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 19 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
- 17
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Jun 1, 1878
By party
- Republicans9 yes · 17 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Democrats10 yes · 13 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted yes
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted yes
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA voted yes
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI voted yes
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted yes
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted yes
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted yes
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI voted yes
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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