Senate roll call 443 · 45th Congress · Feb 18, 1879
To amend H.R. 4414, by providing that the commissioner of internal revenue with approval of the SEC'y of the treasury, exempt distillers, whose daily out-put of
On Feb 18, 1879, the Senate voted 47–19 (HR 4414). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 33–0, Republicans 14–18, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 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
- 47
- No
- 19
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Feb 18, 1879
By party
- Republicans14 yes · 18 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Democrats33 yes · 0 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO voted yes
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted yes
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted yes
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted yes
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted yes
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted yes
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- 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
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- 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
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-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
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy 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
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
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