Senate roll call 219 · 41st Congress · Apr 6, 1870
To amend H. R. 1346 (16 stat 83 may 20, 1870), the deficiency approproation bill, by reducing from $15,000 to $5,000 appropriation for court house and post offi
On Apr 6, 1870, the Senate voted 10–29 (HR 1346). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–29, Democrats 7–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 41st Congress (1869–1870), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 10
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 41
- Date
- Apr 6, 1870
By party
- Republicans3 yes · 29 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Democrats7 yes · 0 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN voted yes
- John Sherman R-OH voted yes
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Vickers D-MD
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Willard Warner R-AL
- Alexander Mcdonald R-AR
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- James Bruen Howell R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- John Spafford Harris R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Carl Schurz R-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Alexander Gilmore Cattell R-NJ
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- George Henry Williams R-OR
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- William Sprague R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Joseph Smith Fowler R-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Homer Virgil Milton Miller D-GA
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- James Harlan R-IA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Edmund Gibson Ross R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Daniel Sheldon Norton D-MN
- Ozora Pierson Stearns R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Charles Daniel Drake R-MO
- Daniel Tarbox Jewett R-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Hiram Rhodes Revels R-MS
- Joseph Carter Abbott R-NC
- John Milton Thayer R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
- Waitman Thomas Willey R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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