Senate roll call 441 · 45th Congress · Feb 18, 1879
To amend H.R. 4414, by levying tax as of july 1, 1879, on articles, described in this section, imported from foreign countries, and on tea of all descriptions a
On Feb 18, 1879, the Senate voted 4–57 (HR 4414). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 0–34, Republicans 4–22, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 4 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
- 4
- No
- 57
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- Feb 18, 1879
By party
- Republicans4 yes · 22 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 34 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted yes
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- 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
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- 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
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis 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
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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