Senate roll call 196 · 46th Congress · Dec 18, 1879
To pass a resolution relating to negro emigration. (p. 155-2)
On Dec 18, 1879, the Senate voted 27–12. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 13–10, Republicans 14–1, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 11 members voted against their own party.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 27
- No
- 12
- Did not vote
- 42
- Date
- Dec 18, 1879
By party
- Democrats13 yes · 10 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 1 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- James Thompson Farley D-CA voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted no
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- David Davis I-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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