Senate roll call 171 · 42nd Congress · Feb 21, 1872
To amend a resolution setting up a special committee to investigate the sales of arms to french agents, by striking out the words "spy or emissary", and inserti
On Feb 21, 1872, the Senate voted 49–1. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 40–1, Democrats 8–0, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 1 member 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
- 49
- No
- 1
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Feb 21, 1872
By party
- Republicans40 yes · 1 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats8 yes · 0 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Sprague R-RI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- James Harlan R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- George Vickers D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill 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
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
How each senator voted: No
- William Sprague R-RI
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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