Senate roll call 321 · 42nd Congress · Apr 25, 1872
To concur in amendment to H.R. 1654, which strikes out a section dealing with a salary raise for the second comptroller.
On Apr 25, 1872, the Senate voted 14–27 (HR 1654). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 9–23, Democrats 5–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 13 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
- 14
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Apr 25, 1872
By party
- Republicans9 yes · 23 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats5 yes · 4 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- George Goldthwaite D-AL voted no
- Cornelius Cole R-CA voted yes
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL voted yes
- John White Stevenson D-KY voted no
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO voted no
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS voted yes
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE voted yes
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Vickers D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- James Harlan R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Did not vote
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- 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
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Sprague R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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