Senate roll call 68 · 46th Congress · May 16, 1879
To amend H.R. 2 by appropriating $2,200 for salary of clerk to the committee on post offices and post roads. (p. 1413-2)
On May 16, 1879, the Senate voted 28–14 (HR 2). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 15–10, Republicans 14–4, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 14 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
- 14
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- May 16, 1879
By party
- Democrats15 yes · 10 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 4 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI voted no
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA voted no
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA voted no
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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