Senate roll call 397 · 45th Congress · Feb 4, 1879
To adopt the resolution providing that the injunction of secrecy upon the debates respective to the nomination of e.a. Merritt and s.w. Burt as the collector an
On Feb 4, 1879, the Senate voted 36–10. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 21–6, Democrats 15–3, Independents 0–1. 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
- 36
- No
- 10
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Feb 4, 1879
By party
- Republicans21 yes · 6 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats15 yes · 3 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted no
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- David Davis I-IL
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
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