Senate roll call 336 · 45th Congress · Jun 18, 1878
To decide a point of order made during debate on H.R. 5130 in order to determine whether amendment limiting rank of officer of the engineer corps to be detailed
On Jun 18, 1878, the Senate voted 39–9. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 24–1, Democrats 14–8, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 9 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
- 39
- No
- 9
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Jun 18, 1878
By party
- Republicans24 yes · 1 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats14 yes · 8 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- 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
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- 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
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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