Senate roll call 369 · 45th Congress · Jan 16, 1879
To amend S. 300, by providing that no account of profits or savings in any case be allowed but that the same be evidence to determine reasonable license fee as
On Jan 16, 1879, the Senate voted 6–32 (S 300). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–19, Democrats 3–14, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 5 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
- 6
- No
- 32
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Jan 16, 1879
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 19 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Democrats3 yes · 14 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted yes
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI voted yes
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted yes
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- David Davis I-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine 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
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Other votes
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