Senate roll call 299 · 45th Congress · Jun 11, 1878
To postpone consideration of H.R. 933, a bill regarding the convention between U.S. And china at shanghai, nov. 8, 1858.
On Jun 11, 1878, the Senate voted 12–34. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–24, Democrats 11–9, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 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
- 12
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Jun 11, 1878
By party
- Republicans1 yes · 24 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats11 yes · 9 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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