Senate roll call 69 · 46th Congress · May 17, 1879
To amend H.R. 2 by proceeding for nine, instead of eight, assistant chiefs of division in the treasury department at $2,000 per annum. (p. 1414-1)
On May 17, 1879, the Senate voted 18–27 (HR 2). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 9–18, Republicans 9–8, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 17 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
- 18
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- May 17, 1879
By party
- Democrats9 yes · 18 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans9 yes · 8 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- Newton Booth R-CA voted no
- Charles William Jones D-FL voted yes
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted yes
- John Brown Gordon D-GA voted yes
- William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI voted no
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted yes
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
- Angus Cameron R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- 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
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- 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
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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