To suspend rules and pass a resolution providing for the investigation into the disturbances in government in the state of arkansas.

On May 18, 1874, the House voted 94–105. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 92–47, Democrats 0–58, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 47 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: 94
No: 105
Did not vote: 105
Date: May 18, 1874

By party

Others2 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans92 yes · 47 no · 65 didn’t vote
Democrats0 yes · 58 no · 36 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Wallace Wilshire R-AR voted no
Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted no
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
James Rush Lofland R-DE voted no
George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
Henry Otis Pratt R-IA voted no
James Wilson R-IA voted no
James Wilson Mcdill R-IA voted no
John Blake Rice R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Franklin Corwin R-IL voted no
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
Henry Benton Sayler R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted no
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
George Willard R-MI voted no
Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted no
William Brewster Williams R-MI voted no
Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO voted no
Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted no
Robert Safford Hale 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
Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY voted no
Thomas Collier Platt R-NY voted no
Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
John Quincy Smith R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN voted no
John Ambler Smith R-VA voted no
Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
George Whitman Hendee R-VT voted no
Jeremiah McLain Rusk 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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