Senate roll call 464 · 45th Congress · Feb 20, 1879
To amend H.R. 6143, by directing the postmaster general to contract for two lines of ocean mail steamship service between U.S. And brazil, one from n.y. To rio
On Feb 20, 1879, the Senate voted 22–28 (HR 6143). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 7–20, Democrats 16–10. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 17 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
- 22
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Feb 20, 1879
By party
- Republicans7 yes · 20 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats16 yes · 10 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted no
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted no
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted yes
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA voted no
- James Shields D-MO voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted yes
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Did not vote
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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