To suspend the rules and pass a resolution regarding the transmission of printed matter.

On Feb 2, 1874, the House voted 164–66. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 111–46, Democrats 52–19, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 65 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: 164
No: 66
Did not vote: 74
Date: Feb 2, 1874

By party

Others1 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans111 yes · 46 no · 47 didn’t vote
Democrats52 yes · 19 no · 23 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Charles Pelham R-AL voted no
Charles Clayton R-CA voted no
Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA voted no
James Wilson R-IA voted no
John Adam Kasson R-IA voted no
James Carroll Robinson D-IL voted no
John Mcnulta R-IL voted no
John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
Alvah Crocker R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Stevenson Archer D-MD voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
William Henry Stone D-MO voted no
Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO voted no
John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO voted no
John Roy Lynch R-MS voted no
Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted no
Philip Schuyler Crooke 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
David Batcheller Mellish R-NY voted no
James Stevenson Smart R-NY voted no
David Wilber R-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY voted no
Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY voted no
Freeman Clarke R-NY voted no
George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
Milton Sayler D-OH voted no
John Quincy Smith R-OH voted no
Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH voted no
Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH voted no
Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH voted no
William Lawrence R-OH voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted no
Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH voted no
John Berry D-OH voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH voted no
Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
John Brutzman Storm D-PA voted no
James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT 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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