Senate roll call 249 · 46th Congress · Mar 17, 1880
To amend H.R. 4736, a bill providing for the deficiency in the appropriations for mail transportation on star routes for fiscal year ending june 30, 1880, by PR
On Mar 17, 1880, the Senate voted 28–34 (HR 4736). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–31, Republicans 25–2, Independents 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 5 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
- 28
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Mar 17, 1880
By party
- Democrats3 yes · 31 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans25 yes · 2 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD voted yes
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- 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
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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