To suspend the rules in order to move that hereafter the daily hour of meeting should be 10 o'clock.

On May 18, 1846, the House voted 93–82. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 83–26, Others 10–56. 26 members voted against their own party.

During the 29th Congress (1845–1846), James K. Polk was president.

Yes: 93
No: 82
Did not vote: 62
Date: May 18, 1846

By party

Democrats83 yes · 26 no · 40 didn’t vote
Others10 yes · 56 no · 22 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edmund Strother Dargan D-AL voted no
William Lowndes Yancey D-AL voted no
William Winter Payne D-AL voted no
George Washington Bonaparte Towns D-GA voted no
Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL voted no
John Preston Martin D-KY voted no
John Wooleston Tibbatts D-KY voted no
Isaac Edward Morse D-LA voted no
James Hugh Relfe D-MO voted no
Joseph E. Edsall D-NJ voted no
William Brown Maclay D-NY voted no
Joseph Halstead Anderson D-NY voted no
Preston King D-NY voted no
Timothy Jenkins D-NY voted no
Samuel Stewart Ellsworth D-NY voted no
Augustus Leonard Perrill D-OH voted no
Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA voted no
William Swan Garvin D-PA voted no
Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC voted no
Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN voted no
Shelton Farrar Leake D-VA voted no
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted no
Henry Bedinger D-VA voted no
James Mcdowell D-VA voted no
Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted no
George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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