To order main question on 3rd reading and engrossment of H.R. 1572.

On Apr 11, 1874, the House voted 113–120 (HR 1572). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 111–64, Democrats 7–65, Others 2–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 71 members voted against their own party.

During the 43rd Congress (1873–1874), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 113
No: 120
Did not vote: 53
Date: Apr 11, 1874

By party

Others2 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Republicans111 yes · 64 no · 29 didn’t vote
Democrats7 yes · 65 no · 22 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Horace Francis Page R-CA voted no
Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted no
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
John Blake Rice R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
George Madison Adams D-KY voted yes
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
Alvah Crocker R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
William Julian Albert R-MD voted no
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD voted no
John Holmes Burleigh R-ME voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Henry Waldron R-MI voted no
George Willard R-MI voted no
William Brewster Williams R-MI voted no
Erastus Wells D-MO voted yes
Albert Richards Howe R-MS voted no
Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC voted yes
William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted yes
Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted yes
William Bradbury Small R-NH voted no
Austin Franklin Pike R-NH voted no
William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted no
Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY voted no
Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY voted no
John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
David Batcheller Mellish R-NY voted no
James Stevenson Smart R-NY voted no
Robert Safford Hale R-NY voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY voted no
David Wilber R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY voted no
Thomas Collier Platt R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY voted no
Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY voted no
Lyman Tremain R-NY voted no
John Quincy Smith R-OH voted no
James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
William Sutton Moore R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted no
Robert Brown Elliott R-SC voted no
William Pinkney Mclean D-TX voted yes
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
George Whitman Hendee R-VT voted no
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To order main question on 3rd reading and…: House Vote, Apr 11, 1874,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/43-H-115/to-order-main-question-on-3rd-reading-and-engrossment (accessed 2026-10-16).