Senate roll call 450 · 45th Congress · Feb 18, 1879
To concur in an amendment to H.R. 4414 prohibiting places where cigars, cheroots or cigarettes are manufactured from being used as dwellings and that if so used
On Feb 18, 1879, the Senate voted 25–34 (HR 4414). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 5–26, Democrats 21–9, 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
- 25
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Feb 18, 1879
By party
- Republicans5 yes · 26 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats21 yes · 9 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted no
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted yes
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD voted no
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted no
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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