House roll call 30 · 43rd Congress · Jan 19, 1874
To suspend the rules and introduce a resolution for the free passage of government mail matter.
On Jan 19, 1874, the House voted 71–161. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 30–127, Democrats 41–32, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 62 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
- 71
- No
- 161
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Jan 19, 1874
By party
- Others0 yes · 2 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans30 yes · 127 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Democrats41 yes · 32 no · 21 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles Hays R-AL voted yes
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted yes
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted yes
- James Rush Lofland R-DE voted yes
- William James Purman R-FL voted yes
- Philip Cook D-GA voted no
- William G. Donnan R-IA voted yes
- Franklin Corwin R-IL voted yes
- William Henry Ray R-IL voted yes
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL voted no
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- William Williams R-IN voted yes
- Edward Crossland D-KY voted no
- John Young Brown D-KY voted no
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY voted no
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
- George Luke Smith R-LA voted yes
- Frank Morey R-LA voted yes
- Stevenson Archer D-MD voted no
- William Julian Albert R-MD voted yes
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME voted yes
- Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
- William Henry Stone D-MO voted no
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO voted no
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO voted yes
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO voted no
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted yes
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO voted no
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO voted no
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS voted yes
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH voted no
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted no
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY voted no
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted yes
- Milton Sayler D-OH voted no
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH voted no
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH voted no
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH voted no
- John Berry D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted yes
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA voted no
- John Cessna R-PA voted yes
- James Scott Negley R-PA voted yes
- William Sutton Moore R-PA voted yes
- Lemuel Todd R-PA voted yes
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC voted yes
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC voted yes
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN voted yes
- William Crutchfield R-TN voted yes
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN voted yes
- Horace Maynard R-TN voted yes
- James Beverley Sener R-VA voted yes
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted yes
- John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Charles Hays R-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- William James Purman R-FL
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Williams R-IN
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- William Brown Read D-KY
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Philip Cook D-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- George Washington Mccrary 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
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe 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
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey 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
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- 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
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions 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
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-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
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
Did not vote
- Alexander White R-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Other votes
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