To adjourn, motion made during debate on a resolution for a currency increase in U.S. Notes.

On Feb 9, 1874, the House voted 93–117. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 81–63, Democrats 11–52, Others 1–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 74 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: 93
No: 117
Did not vote: 94
Date: Feb 9, 1874

By party

Others1 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans81 yes · 63 no · 60 didn’t vote
Democrats11 yes · 52 no · 31 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

James Thomas Rapier R-AL voted no
Charles Hays R-AL voted no
Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted no
Asa Hodges R-AR voted no
Oliver P. Snyder R-AR voted no
Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
Hiram Parks Bell D-GA voted yes
James Wilson R-IA voted no
William Loughridge R-IA voted no
Jasper Delos Ward R-IL voted no
Franklin Corwin R-IL voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
William Henry Ray R-IL voted no
John Mcnulta R-IL voted no
Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN voted no
Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
William Evans Arthur D-KY voted yes
Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted yes
George Luke Smith R-LA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted no
John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA voted no
Ephraim King Wilson D-MD voted yes
Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted no
Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted no
William Brewster Williams R-MI voted no
Josiah Williams Begole R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO voted no
Erastus Wells D-MO voted yes
Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted no
Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO voted no
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted yes
Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY voted no
John Daniel Lawson R-NY voted no
David Batcheller Mellish R-NY voted no
John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted yes
Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH voted no
James Wallace Robinson R-OH voted no
Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH voted no
Leonard Myers R-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
James Soloman Biery R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
John Cessna R-PA voted no
Sobieski Ross R-PA voted no
Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Lemuel Todd R-PA voted no
Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC voted no
William Crutchfield R-TN voted no
David Alexander Nunn R-TN voted no
Barbour Lewis R-TN voted no
William Smith Herndon D-TX voted yes
Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX voted yes
James Beverley Sener R-VA voted no
James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted no
Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI voted no
Alexander Mitchell D-WI voted yes
Philetus Sawyer R-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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