House roll call 34 · 43rd Congress · Jan 20, 1874
To table a resolution suggesting a majority second in order to suspend the rules.
On Jan 20, 1874, the House voted 107–122. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 37–122, Democrats 68–0, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 37 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
- 107
- No
- 122
- Did not vote
- 75
- Date
- Jan 20, 1874
By party
- Others2 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans37 yes · 122 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Democrats68 yes · 0 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted yes
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted yes
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted yes
- William Loughridge R-IA voted yes
- John Adam Kasson R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA voted yes
- Jackson Orr R-IA voted yes
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL voted yes
- Franklin Corwin R-IL voted yes
- John Mcnulta R-IL voted yes
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN voted yes
- Jasper Packard R-IN voted yes
- James Buffinton R-MA voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- William Julian Albert R-MD voted yes
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted yes
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted yes
- Henry Waldron R-MI voted yes
- George Willard R-MI voted yes
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted yes
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted yes
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO voted yes
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted yes
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY voted yes
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY voted yes
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY voted yes
- John Quincy Smith R-OH voted yes
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted yes
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH voted yes
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted yes
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted yes
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- 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
- William Loughridge R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- 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
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell 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
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- William James Purman R-FL
- 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
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- John Coburn R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- 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
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- Robert Safford Hale 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
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- 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
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier 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
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Amos Clark Jr. 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
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Other votes
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