To suspend the rules and pass a resolution suspending the rules and passing H.R. 2322, a bill reducing import duties and internal taxes (17 stat. 230), thus dis

On May 20, 1872, the House voted 149–61. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 76–43, Democrats 73–19, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 62 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: 149
No: 61
Did not vote: 41
Date: May 20, 1872

By party

Republicans76 yes · 43 no · 24 didn’t vote
Democrats73 yes · 19 no · 14 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Maxwell Coghlan R-CA voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
William Evans Arthur D-KY voted no
George Madison Adams D-KY voted no
John McConnell Rice D-KY voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Samuel Hambleton D-MD voted no
Austin Blair R-MI voted no
Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Jabez Gridley Sutherland D-MI voted no
John Thomas Averill R-MN voted no
Henry W. Barry R-MS voted no
George Colin Mckee R-MS voted no
Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS voted no
John Wright Hazelton R-NJ voted no
John Hill R-NJ voted no
Henry Warner Slocum D-NY voted no
John Rogers D-NY voted no
John Michael Carroll D-NY voted no
Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
Aaron Fyfe Perry R-OH voted no
Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted no
Lewis Davis Campbell D-OH voted no
Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH voted no
John Armstrong Smith R-OH voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH voted no
John Thomas Wilson R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
John Armor Bingham R-OH voted no
Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted no
William Hanford Upson R-OH voted no
Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
Leonard Myers R-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
Ephraim Leister Acker D-PA voted no
Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
James Lawrence Getz D-PA voted no
Oliver James Dickey R-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted no
Ulysses Mercur R-PA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Meyers D-PA voted no
Robert Milton Speer D-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Samuel Griffith D-PA voted no
Henry Donnel Foster D-PA voted no
James Scott Negley R-PA voted no
Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA voted no
William Mcclelland D-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted no
Robert Brown Elliott R-SC voted no
Horace Maynard R-TN voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Charles Augustus Eldredge D-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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