To order main question on passage of a resolution directing the committee on indian affairs to investigate the white river reservation uprising of the utes.

On Jan 6, 1880, the House voted 142–39. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 90–6, Republicans 41–33, Others 11–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 39 members voted against their own party.

During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 142
No: 39
Did not vote: 120
Date: Jan 6, 1880

By party

Democrats90 yes · 6 no · 50 didn’t vote
Others11 yes · 0 no · 9 didn’t vote
Republicans41 yes · 33 no · 61 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Thomas Hord Herndon D-AL voted no
William James Samford D-AL voted no
Charles Miller Shelley D-AL voted no
Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted no
Philip Cook D-GA voted no
William George Thompson R-IA voted no
Cyrus Clay Carpenter R-IA voted no
George Royal Davis R-IL voted no
Robert Moffett Allison Hawk R-IL voted no
John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted no
Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted no
Thomas Ryan R-KS voted no
William Claflin R-MA voted no
Edwin Willits R-MI voted no
John Wesley Stone R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
John Lauris Blake R-NJ voted no
Lewis Alexander Brigham R-NJ voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Anson George Mccook R-NY voted no
John William Ferdon R-NY voted no
Walter Abbott Wood R-NY voted no
John Hammond R-NY voted no
Cyrus Dan Prescott R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted no
Henry Safford Neal R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
Jonathan Taylor Updegraff R-OH voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
William Ward R-PA voted no
Edward Overton Jr. R-PA voted no
William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted no
Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN voted no
James Manning Tyler R-VT voted no
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted no
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
Gabriel Bouck D-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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