To reconsider refusal to agree to amendment which provides for the appropriation of $1,200,000 to cover salaries of the President, cabinet members, court justic

On Mar 1, 1873, the House voted 105–79 (HR 2991). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 55–51, Democrats 48–27, Others 2–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 78 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: 105
No: 79
Did not vote: 70
Date: Mar 1, 1873

By party

Republicans55 yes · 51 no · 37 didn’t vote
Democrats48 yes · 27 no · 31 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Thomas Boles R-AR voted no
Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted no
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
Archibald Thompson Macintyre D-GA voted no
Erasmus Williams Beck D-GA 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
John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted no
Edward Young Rice D-IL voted no
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
John Breese Hay R-IL voted no
John Montgomery Crebs D-IL voted no
William Ellis Niblack D-IN voted no
Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN voted no
William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
William Brown Read D-KY voted no
William Evans Arthur D-KY voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Constantine Canaris Esty R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
Alvah Crocker R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Stevenson Archer D-MD voted no
Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
William M. Merrick D-MD voted no
John Lynch R-ME voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Henry Waldron R-MI voted no
Austin Blair R-MI voted no
Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
Ellery Albee Hibbard D-NH voted no
Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted no
John Taylor Bird D-NJ voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
Milo Goodrich R-NY voted no
Freeman Clarke R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted no
Lewis Davis Campbell D-OH voted no
John Armstrong Smith R-OH voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted no
John Thomas Wilson R-OH voted no
James Monroe 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
Ephraim Leister Acker D-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted no
Robert Milton Speer D-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
William Mcclelland D-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted no
John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
Elliott Muse Braxton D-VA voted no
William Terry D-VA voted no
Charles Wesley Willard 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
John James Davis D-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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