To adjourn, motion made during debate on a resolution regarding the contested election case of wallace VS. Simpson. (p. 751-c)

On Jan 25, 1870, the House voted 69–100. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 69–45, Democrats 0–55. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 45 members voted against their own party.

During the 41st Congress (1869–1870), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 69
No: 100
Did not vote: 87
Date: Jan 25, 1870

By party

Republicans69 yes · 45 no · 64 didn’t vote
Democrats0 yes · 55 no · 17 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL voted no
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
William Loughridge R-IA voted no
Charles Pomeroy R-IA voted no
John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted no
Jesse Hale Moore R-IL voted no
Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL voted no
John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted no
John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
Oakes Ames R-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
William Barrett Washburn R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
John Andrew Peters R-ME voted no
Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI voted no
William Lewis Stoughton R-MI voted no
Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Randolph Strickland R-MI voted no
Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Addison Henry Laflin R-NY voted no
Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY voted no
John Charles Churchill R-NY voted no
Dennis Mccarthy R-NY voted no
Noah Davis R-NY voted no
John Fisher R-NY voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
John Armor Bingham R-OH voted no
Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted no
Henry Lutz Cake R-PA voted no
William Hepburn Armstrong R-PA voted no
Darwin Phelps R-PA voted no
Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI voted no
Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT 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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