Senate roll call 580 · 45th Congress · Mar 3, 1879
To amend H.R. 4318 by empowering the President, with the advise and consent of the Senate, to appoint seven commissioners, from officers of the army engineer co
On Mar 3, 1879, the Senate voted 33–10 (HR 4318). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 22–2, Republicans 12–8. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 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
- 33
- No
- 10
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Mar 3, 1879
By party
- Republicans12 yes · 8 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Democrats22 yes · 2 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted no
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN voted no
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted no
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted no
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- 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
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- 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 Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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