To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 2188, a bill dispensing with informers in the internal revenue service.

On Apr 1, 1872, the House voted 127–48 (HR 2188). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 48–46, Democrats 78–1, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 47 members voted against their own party.

During the 42nd Congress (1871–1872), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 127
No: 48
Did not vote: 79
Date: Apr 1, 1872

By party

Republicans48 yes · 46 no · 49 didn’t vote
Democrats78 yes · 1 no · 27 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Benjamin Sterling Turner R-AL voted no
Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL voted no
Charles Hays R-AL voted no
Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA voted no
John Summerfield Bigby R-GA voted no
Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
Jackson Orr R-IA voted no
John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN voted no
John Coburn 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
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
Ginery Twichell R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI voted no
Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO voted no
Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted no
Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
Seth Wakeman R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
William Hanford Upson R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
Robert Carlos De Large R-SC voted no
Horace Maynard 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
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI 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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