Senate roll call 406 · 45th Congress · Feb 5, 1879
To amend the resolution by declaring the right of the people to peaceable assemblage to petition Congress for redress of grievences, and protecting them with pe
On Feb 5, 1879, the Senate voted 25–16. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 26–0, Democrats 1–20. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 25
- No
- 16
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Feb 5, 1879
By party
- Republicans26 yes · 0 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Democrats1 yes · 20 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- 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
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Other votes
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