To suspend rules and consider a resolution regarding the daily hour of meeting.

On May 4, 1874, the House voted 141–77. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 98–58, Democrats 42–17, Others 1–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 75 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: 141
No: 77
Did not vote: 86
Date: May 4, 1874

By party

Others1 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans98 yes · 58 no · 48 didn’t vote
Democrats42 yes · 17 no · 35 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Charles Pelham R-AL voted no
Alexander White R-AL voted no
Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted no
Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted no
Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted no
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
William G. Donnan R-IA voted no
Henry Otis Pratt R-IA voted no
William Loughridge R-IA voted no
John Adam Kasson R-IA voted no
Jackson Orr R-IA voted no
Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
William Ellis Niblack D-IN voted no
John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
William Addison Phillips R-KS voted no
Edward Crossland D-KY voted no
William Brown Read D-KY voted no
William Evans Arthur D-KY voted no
George Luke Smith R-LA voted no
Frank Morey R-LA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Stevenson Archer D-MD voted no
William James O'Brien D-MD voted no
William Julian Albert R-MD voted no
William Brewster Williams R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI voted no
Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
John Thomas Averill R-MN voted no
Abram Comingo D-MO voted no
Albert Richards Howe R-MS voted no
Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC voted no
James Madison Leach D-NC voted no
Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC voted no
Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted no
William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted no
Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ voted no
John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
Thomas Collier Platt R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
Milton Sayler D-OH voted no
Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH voted no
William Lawrence R-OH voted no
James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
John Black Packer R-PA voted no
John Cessna R-PA voted no
Robert Milton Speer D-PA voted no
William Sutton Moore R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
Roderick Randum Butler R-TN voted no
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN voted no
William Crutchfield R-TN voted no
Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
Barbour Lewis R-TN voted no
Horace Maynard R-TN voted no
James Beverley Sener R-VA voted no
James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted no
Charles Augustus Eldredge D-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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