House roll call 53 · 43rd Congress · Feb 9, 1874
To adjourn, motion made during debate on a resolution for the regulation of interstate commerce.
On Feb 9, 1874, the House voted 60–165. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 13–145, Democrats 46–19, Others 1–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 32 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
- 60
- No
- 165
- Did not vote
- 78
- Date
- Feb 9, 1874
By party
- Others1 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans13 yes · 145 no · 46 didn’t vote
- Democrats46 yes · 19 no · 29 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted yes
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR voted yes
- John King Luttrell D-CA voted no
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL voted no
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Charles William Milliken D-KY voted no
- John Duncan Young D-KY voted no
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted yes
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME voted yes
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted yes
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- William Alexander Smith R-NC voted yes
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH voted no
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- Charles West Kendall D-NV voted no
- Eli Perry D-NY voted no
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY voted yes
- Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
- John Alexander Magee D-PA voted no
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA voted no
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted yes
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC voted yes
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- John Young Brown 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
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- James Crawford Freeman 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
- William Loughridge R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-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
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye 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
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- Eli Perry D-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
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-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
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- 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
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Did not vote
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- William James Purman R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- William Brown Read D-KY
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
Other votes
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