To amend H.R. 2322, by reducting the tobacdo tax to 16 cents from 24 cents.

On May 31, 1872, the House voted 135–53 (HR 2322). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 60–46, Democrats 75–7, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 53 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: 135
No: 53
Did not vote: 64
Date: May 31, 1872

By party

Republicans60 yes · 46 no · 37 didn’t vote
Democrats75 yes · 7 no · 24 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
William G. Donnan R-IA voted no
Madison Miner Walden R-IA voted no
Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA voted no
Jackson Orr R-IA voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted no
Jesse Hale Moore R-IL voted no
Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Oakes Ames 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
John Lynch R-ME voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
John Andrew Peters R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
William Lewis Stoughton R-MI voted no
Austin Blair R-MI voted no
Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
John Thomas Averill R-MN voted no
Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS voted no
Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS voted no
Ellery Albee Hibbard D-NH voted no
Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted no
Hosea Washington Parker D-NH voted no
Henry Warner Slocum D-NY voted no
James Brooks D-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Freeman Clarke R-NY voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted no
William Hanford Upson R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT voted no
Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI voted no
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Philetus Sawyer 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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