House roll call 117 · 43rd Congress · Apr 11, 1874
To amend H.R. 1572, by eliminating the whole enacting clause and substituting an amendment which provides for the issuance of $4000,000,000 of treasury notes.
On Apr 11, 1874, the House voted 68–163 (HR 1572). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 14–149, Democrats 52–14, Others 2–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 28 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
- 68
- No
- 163
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Apr 11, 1874
By party
- Others2 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 149 no · 41 didn’t vote
- Democrats52 yes · 14 no · 28 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles Pelham R-AL voted yes
- Alexander White R-AL voted yes
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted yes
- William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted yes
- William Brown Read D-KY voted no
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Stevenson Archer D-MD voted no
- Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted yes
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO voted yes
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted yes
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH voted no
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted no
- Charles West Kendall D-NV voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY voted no
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY voted yes
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted no
- David Miller De Witt D-NY voted no
- Eli Perry D-NY voted no
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY voted yes
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH voted yes
- John Cessna R-PA voted yes
- James Beverley Sener R-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- John James Davis O-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- William Brown Read D-KY
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- Jason Niles R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Did not vote
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- William James Purman R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
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