Senate roll call 483 · 42nd Congress · May 30, 1872
To amend H.R. 2322, by taxing bulk SALT at 12 cents per 100 pounds, and packaged SALT at 18 cents per 100 pounds.
On May 30, 1872, the Senate voted 19–29 (HR 2322). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 19–18, Democrats 0–10, 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
- 19
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- May 30, 1872
By party
- Republicans19 yes · 18 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 10 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Powell Clayton R-AR voted no
- Cornelius Cole R-CA 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
- 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
- John Sherman R-OH 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
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- 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
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- James Harlan R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- 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 Sherman R-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
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Sprague R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- 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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