Senate roll call 97 · 45th Congress · Jan 10, 1878
To adjourn until next monday at 12 o'clock, so as to prevent meeting a group of women on saturday who were coming to discuss women suffrage.
On Jan 10, 1878, the Senate voted 11–33. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 6–17, Republicans 5–16. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 11 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
- 11
- No
- 33
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Jan 10, 1878
By party
- Republicans5 yes · 16 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Democrats6 yes · 17 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted yes
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD voted yes
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI voted yes
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted yes
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- La Fayette Grover D-OR voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- 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
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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