To suspend the rules and agree to the appointment of a committee of conference on S. 440.

On Feb 24, 1869, the House voted 92–68 (S 440). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 75–54, Democrats 16–13, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 67 members voted against their own party.

During the 40th Congress (1867–1868), Andrew Johnson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 92
No: 68
Did not vote: 73
Date: Feb 24, 1869

By party

Republicans75 yes · 54 no · 49 didn’t vote
Democrats16 yes · 13 no · 21 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Richard Dudley Hubbard D-CT voted no
Julius Hotchkiss D-CT voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
Thomas Dawes Eliot R-MA voted no
Oakes Ames R-MA voted no
Ginery Twichell R-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
John Denison Baldwin R-MA voted no
William Barrett Washburn R-MA voted no
Stevenson Archer D-MD voted no
Francis Thomas R-MD voted no
John Lynch R-ME voted no
Sidney Perham R-ME voted no
John Andrew Peters R-ME voted no
Frederick Augustus Pike R-ME voted no
Charles Upson R-MI voted no
Benjamin Franklin Loan R-MO voted no
Jacob Benton R-NH voted no
William Moore R-NJ voted no
John Hill R-NJ voted no
George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ voted no
Stephen Taber D-NY voted no
William Erigena Robinson D-NY voted no
John Fox D-NY voted no
John Winthrop Chanler D-NY voted no
James Brooks D-NY voted no
Fernando Wood D-NY voted no
William Henry Robertson R-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
Thomas Cornell R-NY voted no
John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn D-NY voted no
John Augustus Griswold R-NY voted no
Orange Ferriss R-NY voted no
Calvin Tilden Hulburd R-NY voted no
James Madison Marvin R-NY voted no
William Craig Fields R-NY voted no
John Charles Churchill R-NY voted no
Theodore Medad Pomeroy R-NY voted no
William Henry Kelsey R-NY voted no
Hamilton Ward R-NY voted no
Burt Van Horn R-NY voted no
James Morgan Humphrey D-NY voted no
Henry Van Aernam R-NY voted no
Tobias Avery Plants R-OH voted no
Rufus Paine Spalding R-OH voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Leonard Myers R-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA voted no
John Martin Broomall R-PA voted no
James Lawrence Getz D-PA voted no
Oliver James Dickey R-PA voted no
Ulysses Mercur R-PA voted no
George Funston Miller R-PA voted no
William Henry Koontz R-PA voted no
Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Solomon Newton Pettis R-PA voted no
John Covode R-PA voted no
James Kennedy Moorhead R-PA voted no
George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA voted no
Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI voted no
Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT voted no
Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI 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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