Senate roll call 49 · 46th Congress · May 6, 1879
To table an appeal from the decision of the chair, made during debate on the resolution instructing committee on privileges and elections to probe into henry SP
On May 6, 1879, the Senate voted 24–22. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 26–1, Republicans 0–22. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 24
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- May 6, 1879
By party
- Democrats26 yes · 1 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 22 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Wade Hampton D-SC voted no
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
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill 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
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- 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
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- 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
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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