House roll call 271 · 43rd Congress · Jan 21, 1875
To pass H.R. 3821.
On Jan 21, 1875, the House voted 120–126 (HR 3821). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 96–70, Democrats 22–54, Others 2–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 92 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
- 120
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 58
- Date
- Jan 21, 1875
By party
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Republicans96 yes · 70 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Democrats22 yes · 54 no · 18 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL voted yes
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR voted yes
- Charles Clayton R-CA voted no
- James Rush Lofland R-DE voted no
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
- William G. Donnan R-IA voted no
- James Wilson R-IA voted no
- John Adam Kasson R-IA voted no
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL voted no
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL voted no
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted no
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
- John Mcnulta R-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
- James Stewart Martin R-IL voted no
- John Coburn R-IN voted no
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN voted no
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY voted yes
- George Madison Adams D-KY voted yes
- James Buffinton R-MA voted no
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted no
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
- Thomas Swann D-MD voted yes
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME voted no
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted no
- George Willard R-MI voted no
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted no
- William Brewster Williams R-MI voted no
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
- William Henry Stone D-MO voted yes
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO voted no
- Abram Comingo D-MO voted yes
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO voted no
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted yes
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS voted no
- John Roy Lynch R-MS voted no
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted yes
- James Madison Leach D-NC voted yes
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted yes
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH voted no
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ voted no
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted no
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY voted no
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
- David Miller De Witt D-NY voted yes
- Eli Perry D-NY voted yes
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY voted no
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
- Freeman Clarke R-NY voted no
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY voted no
- John Quincy Smith R-OH voted no
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH voted no
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH voted no
- William Lawrence R-OH voted no
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
- Charles Foster R-OH voted no
- John Berry D-OH voted yes
- William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH voted no
- James Monroe R-OH voted no
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR voted yes
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
- James Soloman Biery R-PA voted no
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted no
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA voted no
- John Black Packer R-PA voted no
- Sobieski Ross R-PA voted no
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA voted no
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA voted no
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted no
- Charles Albright R-PA voted no
And 12 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- John Berry D-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- 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
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- William Brown Read D-KY
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William James Purman R-FL
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.