To suspend rules and pass a resolution conserning cheap water transportation.

On Apr 20, 1874, the House voted 130–74. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 74–68, Democrats 54–6, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 74 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: 130
No: 74
Did not vote: 100
Date: Apr 20, 1874

By party

Others2 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans74 yes · 68 no · 62 didn’t vote
Democrats54 yes · 6 no · 34 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

James Thomas Rapier R-AL voted no
Charles Clayton R-CA voted no
Sherman Otis Houghton 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
George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
John Adam Kasson R-IA voted no
Jackson Orr R-IA voted no
John Blake Rice R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted no
Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted no
Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA voted no
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
William James O'Brien D-MD voted no
William Julian Albert R-MD voted no
John Holmes Burleigh R-ME voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Henry Waldron R-MI voted no
John Roy Lynch R-MS voted no
Hosea Washington Parker D-NH voted no
John Wright Hazelton R-NJ voted no
William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted no
Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
David Miller De Witt D-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
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY voted no
Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
Lyman Tremain R-NY voted no
John Quincy Smith R-OH voted no
Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH voted no
William Lawrence R-OH voted no
James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
James Soloman Biery R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted no
John Black Packer R-PA voted no
Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA voted no
Charles Albright R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
Robert Brown Elliott R-SC voted no
Richard Harvey Cain R-SC voted no
Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
Luke Potter Poland 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
Alexander Stuart Mcdill 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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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend rules and pass a resolution…: House Vote, Apr 20, 1874,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/43-H-132/to-suspend-rules-and-pass-a-resolution-conserning-cheap (accessed 2026-10-16).