Senate roll call 54 · 46th Congress · May 7, 1879
To amend the resolution relating to seating of a senator by seeking to confine the inquiry to matters in the petition new and different from those covered in TH
On May 7, 1879, the Senate voted 20–27. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 0–29, Republicans 27–0. 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
- 20
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- May 7, 1879
By party
- Democrats0 yes · 29 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans27 yes · 0 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- 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
- 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
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- 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
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- 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
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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