Senate roll call 54 · 43rd Congress · Feb 6, 1874
To amend H.R. 792 by allowing a debtor ninety days, instead of forty to straighten out his affairs before becoming subject to the bankruptcy law.
On Feb 6, 1874, the Senate voted 15–29 (HR 792). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 10–20, Democrats 4–8, Others 2–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 14 members voted against their own party.
During the 43rd Congress (1873–1874), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 15
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Feb 6, 1874
By party
- Republicans10 yes · 20 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats4 yes · 8 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL voted yes
- Powell Clayton R-AR voted yes
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL voted yes
- John Brown Gordon D-GA voted yes
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted yes
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted yes
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN voted yes
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA voted yes
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
- John Sherman R-OH voted yes
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted yes
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Orris Sanford Ferry O-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton O-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Robert Crozier R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton O-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- John Sharpenstein Hager D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- Henry Roberts Pease R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Thomas Weston Tipton O-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Sprague O-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
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