To amend a motion to refer H.R. 1561, a bill reducing the expenditures on public buildings, to comm. On approp., by referring it instead to the comm. On public

On Jan 28, 1874, the House voted 167–76 (HR 1561). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 106–54, Democrats 57–23, Others 4–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 77 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: 167
No: 76
Did not vote: 60
Date: Jan 28, 1874

By party

Others4 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote
Republicans106 yes · 54 no · 44 didn’t vote
Democrats57 yes · 23 no · 14 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Philip Cook D-GA voted no
George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted no
William G. Donnan R-IA voted no
William Loughridge R-IA 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
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN voted no
John Coburn R-IN voted no
Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
Henry Benton Sayler R-IN voted no
Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted no
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
George Willard R-MI voted no
Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted no
Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted no
Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO voted no
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
Hosea Washington Parker D-NH voted no
Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted no
William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY voted no
William Randall Roberts D-NY voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
Fernando Wood D-NY voted no
Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted no
James Stevenson Smart R-NY voted no
Robert Safford Hale R-NY voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY voted no
Thomas Collier Platt R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
John Quincy Smith R-OH voted no
Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH voted no
Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH voted no
William Lawrence R-OH voted no
James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted no
Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH voted no
Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
John Brutzman Storm D-PA voted no
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted no
John Alexander Magee D-PA voted no
John Cessna R-PA voted no
Robert Milton Speer D-PA voted no
William Sutton Moore R-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
George Whitman Hendee R-VT voted no
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted no
Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI voted no
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Alexander Mitchell D-WI voted no
Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI voted no
Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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