To suspend rules so as to introduce Senate resolution to adjourn over the holidays. (p. 152-1)

On Dec 20, 1858, the House voted 122–74. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 73–34, Republicans 37–37, Others 12–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 71 members voted against their own party.

During the 35th Congress (1857–1858), James Buchanan was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 122
No: 74
Did not vote: 49
Date: Dec 20, 1858

By party

Democrats73 yes · 34 no · 28 didn’t vote
Republicans37 yes · 37 no · 19 didn’t vote
Others12 yes · 3 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL voted no
Sydenham Moore D-AL voted no
George Smith Houston D-AL voted no
Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL voted no
Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR voted no
Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT voted no
Sidney Dean R-CT voted no
James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted no
Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
William Hayden English D-IN voted no
James Hughes D-IN voted no
John Givan Davis D-IN voted no
Schuyler Colfax R-IN voted no
John Upfold Pettit R-IN voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Linus Bacon Comins R-MA voted no
Chauncey Langdon Knapp R-MA voted no
Calvin Clifford Chaffee R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
James Augustus Stewart D-MD voted no
Charles Jervis Gilman R-ME voted no
Stephen Clark Foster R-ME voted no
David Safford Walbridge R-MI voted no
De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI voted no
John Bullock Clark D-MO voted no
James Craig D-MO voted no
John Smith Phelps D-MO voted no
Reuben Davis D-MS voted no
Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC voted no
Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
James Pike R-NH voted no
Mason Weare Tappan R-NH voted no
Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ voted no
Edward Dodd R-NY voted no
Francis Elias Spinner R-NY voted no
Henry Charles Goodwin R-NY voted no
Charles Brooks Hoard R-NY voted no
Edwin Barber Morgan R-NY voted no
John Mason Parker R-NY voted no
George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH voted no
Aaron Harlan R-OH voted no
Benjamin Stanton R-OH voted no
Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH voted no
Joseph Miller D-OH voted no
John Sherman R-OH voted no
Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH voted no
Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH voted no
Edward Wade R-OH voted no
Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH voted no
Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA voted no
Paul Leidy D-PA voted no
Allison White D-PA voted no
Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA voted no
John Dick R-PA voted no
Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI voted no
William Daniel Brayton R-RI voted no
George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN voted no
John Singleton Millson D-VA voted no
John Samuels Caskie D-VA voted no
William Osborne Goode D-VA voted no
Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA voted no
John Letcher D-VA voted no
George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted no
Eliakim Persons Walton R-VT voted no
Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
Homer Elihu Royce R-VT 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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