Senate roll call 467 · 45th Congress · Feb 20, 1879
To table an amendment to H.R. 6143 adding stops, after galveston, at the bay of mobile and the bay of pensocola on each alternate trip of the mail steamship ser
On Feb 20, 1879, the Senate voted 16–16 (HR 6143). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 6–15, Republicans 11–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 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
- 16
- No
- 16
- Did not vote
- 46
- Date
- Feb 20, 1879
By party
- Republicans11 yes · 4 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Democrats6 yes · 15 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted yes
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted no
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA voted yes
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted yes
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- 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
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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