To table a resolution providing that the committee on ways and means be directed to report bill reducing the duties on potatoes and fish of all sorts by fifty p

On Jun 20, 1870, the House voted 65–85. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 62–52, Democrats 3–33. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 55 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: 65
No: 85
Did not vote: 106
Date: Jun 20, 1870

By party

Republicans62 yes · 52 no · 64 didn’t vote
Democrats3 yes · 33 no · 36 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA voted yes
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
William Boyd Allison R-IA voted no
Norman Buel Judd R-IL 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
John Breese Hay R-IL voted no
John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
George Washington Julian R-IN voted no
John Coburn R-IN voted no
Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
Sidney Clarke R-KS voted no
Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY voted yes
Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
George Merrick Brooks R-MA voted no
Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI voted no
Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO voted no
James Robinson Mccormick D-MO voted yes
Joel Funk Asper R-MO voted no
John Forbes Benjamin R-MO voted no
David Patterson Dyer R-MO voted no
Henry W. Barry R-MS voted no
Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC voted no
Israel George Lash R-NC voted no
Thomas Fitch R-NV voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
John Charles Churchill R-NY voted no
James January Winans R-OH voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH voted no
Martin Welker R-OH voted no
John Cessna R-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
James Scott Negley R-PA voted no
Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI voted no
Horace Maynard R-TN voted no
Charles Howell Porter R-VA voted no
David Atwood R-WI voted no
Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI voted no
Isaac Harding Duval R-WV voted no
James Clark Mcgrew 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 table a resolution providing that the…: House Vote, Jun 20, 1870,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/41-H-388/to-table-a-resolution-providing-that-the-committee-on (accessed 2026-10-16).