Senate roll call 25 · 46th Congress · Apr 23, 1879
To amend the resolution amending the standing order of the Senate relating to appointment and removal of Senate employees, by allowing Senate employees to retai
On Apr 23, 1879, the Senate voted 36–23. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 40–0, Republicans 0–25. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 36
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Apr 23, 1879
By party
- Democrats40 yes · 0 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 25 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- 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
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- 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 Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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