Senate roll call 538 · 45th Congress · Feb 28, 1879
To decide a point of order that an amendment to H.R. 6471, providing that the secretary of war sell or lease to port huron and northwestern railway a certain ST
On Feb 28, 1879, the Senate voted 22–28. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 18–8, Democrats 4–20. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 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
- 22
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Feb 28, 1879
By party
- Republicans18 yes · 8 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Democrats4 yes · 20 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- Newton Booth R-CA voted no
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted no
- John Percival Jones R-NV voted no
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- James Shields D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- 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
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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