To suspend the rules and consider H.R. 1, (12 stat-1, app. 2/15/1860), making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the post office dept.

On Feb 6, 1860, the House voted 157–41 (HR 1). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 69–30, Democrats 63–6, Others 25–5. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 36 members voted against their own party.

During the 36th Congress (1859–1860), James Buchanan was president, and Republicans held the House majority and Democrats the Senate majority.

Yes: 157
No: 41
Did not vote: 46
Date: Feb 6, 1860

By party

Democrats63 yes · 6 no · 18 didn’t vote
Republicans69 yes · 30 no · 19 didn’t vote
Others25 yes · 5 no · 9 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
Alfred Avery Burnham R-CT voted no
Owen Lovejoy R-IL voted no
William Kellogg R-IL voted no
William McKee Dunn R-IN voted no
David Kilgore R-IN voted no
John Upfold Pettit R-IN voted no
Charles Russell Train R-MA voted no
Charles Delano R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Daniel Eton Somes R-ME voted no
Reuben Davis D-MS voted no
William Barksdale D-MS voted no
Thomas McKey Edwards R-NH voted no
Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY voted no
William Scheuneman Kenyon R-NY voted no
Charles Lewis Beale R-NY voted no
James Bedell Mckean R-NY voted no
George William Palmer R-NY voted no
Francis Elias Spinner R-NY voted no
Moses Lindley Lee R-NY voted no
Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY voted no
William Irvine R-NY voted no
Alfred Ely R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Spaulding R-NY voted no
John Sherman R-OH voted no
Harrison Gray Otis Blake R-OH voted no
William Helmick R-OH voted no
Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH voted no
Sidney Edgerton R-OH voted no
Thaddeus Stevens R-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
James Kennedy Moorhead R-PA voted no
William Porcher Miles D-SC voted no
Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA voted no
John Singleton Millson 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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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend the rules and consider H.R. 1…: House Vote, Feb 6, 1860,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/36-H-36/to-suspend-the-rules-and-consider-h-r-1 (accessed 2026-10-17).