To amend H.R. 2045, a bill to reduce internal taxes and for other purposes, by reducing the income tax rate from 5% to 3%. (p. 4063-2)

On Jun 3, 1870, the House voted 114–76 (HR 2045). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 72–66, Democrats 40–8, Others 3–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 74 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: 114
No: 76
Did not vote: 65
Date: Jun 3, 1870

By party

Republicans72 yes · 66 no · 40 didn’t vote
Democrats40 yes · 8 no · 24 didn’t vote
Others3 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Charles Hays R-AL voted no
William Crawford Sherrod D-AL voted no
Logan Holt Roots R-AR voted no
Thomas Boles R-AR voted no
George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
William Smyth R-IA voted no
William Loughridge R-IA voted no
Charles Pomeroy R-IA voted no
John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL voted no
Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL voted no
Jesse Hale Moore R-IL voted no
Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL voted no
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
John Breese Hay R-IL voted no
John Montgomery Crebs D-IL voted no
John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
John Coburn R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY voted no
John McConnell Rice D-KY voted no
Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI voted no
William Lewis Stoughton R-MI voted no
Austin Blair R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Randolph Strickland R-MI voted no
Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN voted no
Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN voted no
James Robinson Mccormick D-MO voted no
Sempronius Hamilton Boyd R-MO voted no
Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO voted no
Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO voted no
Joel Funk Asper R-MO voted no
John Forbes Benjamin R-MO voted no
Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS voted no
Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC voted no
Israel George Lash R-NC voted no
Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC voted no
Jacob Hart Ela R-NH voted no
Jacob Benton R-NH voted no
Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY voted no
William Henry Kelsey R-NY voted no
Hamilton Ward R-NY voted no
Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH voted no
John Armstrong Smith R-OH voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH voted no
Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH voted no
Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA voted no
Ulysses Mercur R-PA voted no
Darwin Phelps R-PA voted no
Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC voted no
Roderick Randum Butler R-TN voted no
Horace Maynard R-TN voted no
William Brickly Stokes R-TN voted no
Lewis Tillman R-TN voted no
Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN voted no
Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN voted no
William Jay Smith R-TN voted no
William Thomas Clark R-TX voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI voted no
David Atwood R-WI voted no
Amasa Cobb R-WI voted no
John Seashoal Witcher R-WV 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 amend H.R. 2045, a bill to reduce…: House Vote, Jun 3, 1870,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/41-H-314/to-amend-h-r-2045-a-bill-to-reduce (accessed 2026-10-17).