To concur in a Senate amendment to H.R. 599, appropriating $50,000 for indemmties o the claimants in the case of the armistas, a schooner. (p. 569-2)

On Mar 2, 1847, the House voted 40–113 (HR 599). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 36–51, Others 4–62. 36 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 40
No: 113
Did not vote: 84
Date: Mar 2, 1847

By party

Democrats36 yes · 51 no · 62 didn’t vote
Others4 yes · 62 no · 22 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edmund Strother Dargan D-AL voted yes
William Winter Payne D-AL voted yes
George Smith Houston D-AL voted yes
Reuben Chapman D-AL voted yes
Franklin Welsh Bowdon D-AL voted yes
William Henry Brockenbrough D-FL voted yes
Seaborn Jones D-GA voted yes
John Henry Lumpkin D-GA voted yes
Howell Cobb D-GA voted yes
Linn Boyd D-KY voted yes
Emile La Sére D-LA voted yes
John Henry Harmanson D-LA voted yes
Leonard Henly Sims D-MO voted yes
Jacob Thompson D-MS voted yes
Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS voted yes
David Settle Reid D-NC voted yes
James Cochrane Dobbin D-NC voted yes
James Iver Mckay D-NC voted yes
John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC voted yes
William Brown Maclay D-NY voted yes
Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA voted yes
Richard Brodhead D-PA voted yes
Henry Donnel Foster D-PA voted yes
James Augustus Black D-SC voted yes
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC voted yes
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted yes
Alexander Dromgoole Sims D-SC voted yes
Armistead Burt D-SC voted yes
Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC voted yes
Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN voted yes
Archibald Atkinson D-VA voted yes
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted yes
Shelton Farrar Leake D-VA voted yes
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted yes
Henry Bedinger D-VA voted yes
George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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