Senate roll call 500 · 45th Congress · Feb 24, 1879
To decide the point of order that a motion to request the attendance of absent senators should precede a motion directing the sergeant-at-arms to compel their a
On Feb 24, 1879, the Senate voted 24–12. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 13–5, Democrats 10–7, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 12 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
- 24
- No
- 12
- Did not vote
- 46
- Date
- Feb 24, 1879
By party
- Republicans13 yes · 5 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats10 yes · 7 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted no
- Newton Booth R-CA voted no
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted no
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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