To suspend the rules and adopt a resolution requesting the appointment of lawyers to prosecute the credit mobilier and to recover $5,000,000 interest due. (p.

On Jan 6, 1873, the House voted 92–26. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 35–26, Democrats 54–0, Others 3–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 26 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: 92
No: 26
Did not vote: 136
Date: Jan 6, 1873

By party

Republicans35 yes · 26 no · 82 didn’t vote
Democrats54 yes · 0 no · 52 didn’t vote
Others3 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted no
Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
William G. Donnan R-IA voted no
Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
Ginery Twichell R-MA voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
William Lewis Stoughton R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell 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 Taffe R-NE voted no
Charles St. John R-NY voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
William Hanford Upson R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
James Scott Negley R-PA voted no
James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted no
William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA voted no
Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-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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