Senate roll call 251 · 43rd Congress · Jun 20, 1874
To amend H.R. 3168, by providing for surveys and estimates for the improvements recommended by the Senate select committee on transportation routes to the seabo
On Jun 20, 1874, the Senate voted 38–11 (HR 3168). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 28–3, Democrats 8–7, Others 2–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 10 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
- 38
- No
- 11
- Did not vote
- 30
- Date
- Jun 20, 1874
By party
- Republicans28 yes · 3 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Democrats8 yes · 7 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA voted no
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD voted no
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD voted no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted no
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH voted no
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC voted no
- Henry Cooper D-TN voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- John Sharpenstein Hager D-CA
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Henry Roberts Pease R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton O-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- John James Patterson 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
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry O-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Robert Crozier R-KS
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Thomas Weston Tipton O-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton O-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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