Senate roll call 281 · 42nd Congress · Apr 8, 1872
To amend H.R. 1192, by reducing the clothing and subsistence appropriation for the sioux indians from $500,000 to $200,000.
On Apr 8, 1872, the Senate voted 18–22 (HR 1192). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 12–19, Democrats 5–3, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 15 members voted against their own party.
During the 42nd Congress (1871–1872), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 18
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Apr 8, 1872
By party
- Republicans12 yes · 19 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats5 yes · 3 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL voted yes
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA voted no
- George Grover Wright R-IA voted yes
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted yes
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL voted yes
- John White Stevenson D-KY voted no
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted yes
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted yes
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE voted yes
- James Warren Nye R-NV voted yes
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR voted no
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX voted yes
- John Francis Lewis R-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- James Harlan R-IA
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- George Vickers D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Sprague R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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