Senate roll call 661 · 42nd Congress · Jan 29, 1873
To reconsider passage of amendment to H.R. 2991, which sets salaries for the assistant secretaries, solicitor, register, supervising architect of the treasury d
On Jan 29, 1873, the Senate voted 14–33 (HR 2991). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 5–26, Democrats 9–6, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 11 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
- 33
- Did not vote
- 28
- Date
- Jan 29, 1873
By party
- Republicans5 yes · 26 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats9 yes · 6 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Eugene Casserly D-CA voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA voted no
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME voted yes
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO voted no
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE voted yes
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ voted no
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted yes
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX voted yes
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted no
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- George Vickers D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- John Pool R-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Sprague R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Did not vote
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- James Harlan R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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