Senate roll call 414 · 45th Congress · Feb 8, 1879
To go into executive session, made during debate on S. 457, a bill concerning the settlement of accounts with southern railway.
On Feb 8, 1879, the Senate voted 24–27. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 7–19, Republicans 16–8, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 15 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
- 24
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Feb 8, 1879
By party
- Republicans16 yes · 8 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats7 yes · 19 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted no
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted yes
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted yes
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted no
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME voted no
- James Shields D-MO voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted no
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted no
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted no
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- James Shields D-MO
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- 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
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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