Senate roll call 390 · 42nd Congress · May 11, 1872
To amend S. 791, by adding that no compensation for serving at elections is to be allowed for supervisors or special deputy marshalls.
On May 11, 1872, the Senate voted 18–27 (S 791). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–27, Democrats 14–0, Others 1–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 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
- 27
- Did not vote
- 30
- Date
- May 11, 1872
By party
- Republicans3 yes · 27 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Democrats14 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL voted yes
- William Sprague R-RI voted yes
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- William Sprague R-RI
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- James Harlan R-IA
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Did not vote
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- George Vickers D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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