To postpone until thursday, H.R. 646, a bill to secure contracts and make provisions for the safe, certain, and more speedy transportation by r.r. Of mails, tro

On May 28, 1860, the House voted 57–118 (HR 646). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 33–57, Democrats 8–48, Others 16–13. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 41 members voted against their own party.

During the 36th Congress (1859–1860), James Buchanan was president, and Republicans held the House majority and Democrats the Senate majority.

Yes: 57
No: 118
Did not vote: 69
Date: May 28, 1860

By party

Democrats8 yes · 48 no · 31 didn’t vote
Republicans33 yes · 57 no · 28 didn’t vote
Others16 yes · 13 no · 10 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Vandever R-IA voted yes
William McKee Dunn R-IN voted yes
Charles Case R-IN voted yes
Thomas Dawes Eliot R-MA voted yes
Anson Burlingame R-MA voted yes
John Bassett Alley R-MA voted yes
Eli Thayer R-MA voted yes
George Wurtz Hughes D-MD voted yes
Ezra Bartlett French R-ME voted yes
Israel Washburn Jr. R-ME voted yes
Stephen Clark Foster R-ME voted yes
Henry Waldron R-MI voted yes
De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI voted yes
Cyrus Aldrich R-MN voted yes
John William Noell D-MO voted yes
John Cochrane D-NY voted yes
Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY voted yes
William Irvine R-NY voted yes
Augustus Frank R-NY voted yes
Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH voted yes
Thomas Corwin R-OH voted yes
Benjamin Stanton R-OH voted yes
John Carey R-OH voted yes
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH voted yes
William Helmick R-OH voted yes
Thomas Clarke Theaker R-OH voted yes
Edward Wade R-OH voted yes
Edward Joy Morris R-PA voted yes
James Tracy Hale R-PA voted yes
Benjamin Franklin Junkin R-PA voted yes
John Covode R-PA voted yes
William Montgomery D-PA voted yes
Elijah Babbitt R-PA voted yes
Christopher Robinson R-RI voted yes
William Daniel Brayton R-RI voted yes
William Smith D-VA voted yes
Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA voted yes
Eliakim Persons Walton R-VT voted yes
Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
Homer Elihu Royce R-VT voted yes
John Fox Potter R-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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