To suspend rules for an immediate report of the committee on banking and currency regarding H.R. 1572, the currency and free banking bill.

On May 25, 1874, the House voted 131–101 (HR 1572). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 124–33, Democrats 6–67, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 39 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: 131
No: 101
Did not vote: 72
Date: May 25, 1874

By party

Others1 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans124 yes · 33 no · 47 didn’t vote
Democrats6 yes · 67 no · 21 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
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted yes
Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted yes
James Buffinton 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
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
William Julian Albert R-MD voted no
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD voted no
Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted no
Erastus Wells D-MO voted yes
John Roy Lynch R-MS voted no
William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted yes
William Bradbury Small R-NH voted no
Austin Franklin Pike R-NH voted no
John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
James Stevenson Smart R-NY voted no
George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY voted no
Lyman Tremain R-NY voted no
James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted no
Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
John Hancock D-TX voted yes
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
Alexander Mitchell 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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