House roll call 259 · 43rd Congress · Jan 12, 1875
To adjourn, motion made during consideration of several bills on the calendar.
On Jan 12, 1875, the House voted 58–159. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–147, Democrats 55–10, Others 3–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 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
- 58
- No
- 159
- Did not vote
- 87
- Date
- Jan 12, 1875
By party
- Others3 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 147 no · 57 didn’t vote
- Democrats55 yes · 10 no · 29 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL voted no
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO voted no
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted no
- Eli Perry D-NY voted no
- Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- 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
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- William Brown Read D-KY
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Oliver P. Snyder 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
- Richard Henry Whiteley 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
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort 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
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- 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
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Did not vote
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William James Purman R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- John Hancock D-TX
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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