Senate roll call 518 · 45th Congress · Feb 26, 1879
To amend H.R. 6436 by eliminating all that relate to the enforcement of the election laws, thereby reducing the appropriation to defray the expenses of the atto
On Feb 26, 1879, the Senate voted 31–33 (HR 6436). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–33, Democrats 31–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 31
- No
- 33
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Feb 26, 1879
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 33 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats31 yes · 0 no · 7 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- 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
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- 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
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- 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
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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