Senate roll call 481 · 42nd Congress · May 30, 1872
To amend H.R. 2322, by taxing bulk SALT at 8 cents per 100 pounds plus 20% ad valorem, and packaged SALT at 12 cents per 100 pounds and 20% ad valorem.
On May 30, 1872, the Senate voted 23–34 (HR 2322). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 23–18, Democrats 0–15, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 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
- 23
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- May 30, 1872
By party
- Republicans23 yes · 18 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 15 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Powell Clayton R-AR voted no
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT voted no
- Joshua Hill R-GA voted no
- George Grover Wright R-IA voted no
- James Harlan R-IA voted no
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL voted no
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN voted no
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Adelbert Ames R-MS voted no
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS voted no
- John Pool R-NC voted no
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted no
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC voted no
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX voted no
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- 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
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Vickers D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- John Sherman R-OH
- William Sprague R-RI
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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