Senate roll call 276 · 43rd Congress · Dec 22, 1874
To amend S. 1044 by inserting a provision that no less than $2,000,000 of legal tender notes shall be retired monthly by the secretary of the treasury and that
On Dec 22, 1874, the Senate voted 6–44 (S 1044). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–31, Democrats 3–11, Others 3–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 3 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
- 6
- No
- 44
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Dec 22, 1874
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 31 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Democrats3 yes · 11 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Sharpenstein Hager D-CA voted yes
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted yes
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Henry Roberts Pease R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Thomas Weston Tipton O-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Sprague O-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry O-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Robert Crozier R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- William Windom R-MN
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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