Senate roll call 681 · 41st Congress · Feb 25, 1871
To amend H. R. 2579 (16 stat 5718 app mar. 3, 1871) the post office appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1872, by reducing the pay of mail mes
On Feb 25, 1871, the Senate voted 21–23 (HR 2579). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 16–20, Democrats 5–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 19 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
- 21
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Feb 25, 1871
By party
- Republicans16 yes · 20 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Democrats5 yes · 3 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Cornelius Cole R-CA voted yes
- Eugene Casserly D-CA voted no
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL voted yes
- Henry Wilson R-MA voted yes
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO voted no
- James Willis Patterson R-NH voted yes
- James Warren Nye R-NV voted yes
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY voted yes
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted yes
- John Sherman R-OH voted yes
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR voted yes
- William Sprague R-RI voted yes
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC voted yes
- Joseph Smith Fowler R-TN voted yes
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
- Waitman Thomas Willey R-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- George Vickers D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- William Sprague R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Joseph Smith Fowler R-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Waitman Thomas Willey R-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Alexander Mcdonald R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- James Bruen Howell R-IA
- James Harlan R-IA
- Richard Yates R-IL
- John Spafford Harris R-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Jacob Merritt Howard R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Ozora Pierson Stearns R-MN
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- Hiram Rhodes Revels R-MS
- John Milton Thayer R-NE
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
Did not vote
- Willard Warner R-AL
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- Homer Virgil Milton Miller D-GA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Edmund Gibson Ross R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Daniel Sheldon Norton D-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz R-MO
- Charles Daniel Drake R-MO
- Daniel Tarbox Jewett R-MO
- John Pool R-NC
- Joseph Carter Abbott R-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Alexander Gilmore Cattell R-NJ
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Henry Williams R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Other votes
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