To amend the instructions to the committee on banking and currency in their consideration of S. 440, by requiring said committee to include the following sectio

On Feb 18, 1869, the House voted 96–77 (S 440). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 77–59, Democrats 17–17, Others 2–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 76 members voted against their own party.

During the 40th Congress (1867–1868), Andrew Johnson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 96
No: 77
Did not vote: 60
Date: Feb 18, 1869

By party

Republicans77 yes · 59 no · 42 didn’t vote
Democrats17 yes · 17 no · 16 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA voted no
Julius Hotchkiss D-CT voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL voted no
James Falconer Wilson R-IA voted no
Hiram Price R-IA voted no
William Ellis Niblack D-IN voted no
Henry Dana Washburn R-IN voted no
Thomas Dawes Eliot R-MA voted no
Oakes Ames R-MA voted no
Ginery Twichell R-MA voted no
George Sewel Boutwell R-MA voted no
William Barrett Washburn R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Frederick Stone D-MD voted no
John Lynch R-ME voted no
Charles Upson R-MI voted no
Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge R-MI voted no
Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH voted no
Jacob Benton R-NH voted no
William Moore R-NJ voted no
Charles Haight D-NJ voted no
Charles Sitgreaves D-NJ voted no
George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ voted no
Stephen Taber D-NY voted no
William Erigena Robinson D-NY voted no
John Fox D-NY voted no
John Winthrop Chanler D-NY voted no
James Brooks D-NY voted no
Fernando Wood D-NY voted no
William Henry Robertson R-NY voted no
Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
Thomas Cornell R-NY voted no
John Augustus Griswold R-NY voted no
Orange Ferriss R-NY voted no
Calvin Tilden Hulburd R-NY voted no
James Madison Marvin R-NY voted no
William Craig Fields R-NY voted no
Addison Henry Laflin R-NY voted no
John Charles Churchill R-NY voted no
Dennis Mccarthy R-NY voted no
Theodore Medad Pomeroy R-NY voted no
Hamilton Ward R-NY voted no
Burt Van Horn R-NY voted no
James Morgan Humphrey D-NY voted no
Henry Van Aernam R-NY voted no
James Mitchell Ashley R-OH voted no
Ephraim Ralph Eckley R-OH voted no
Rufus Paine Spalding R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Rufus Mallory R-OR voted no
Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Leonard Myers R-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA voted no
Benjamin Markley Boyer D-PA voted no
John Martin Broomall R-PA voted no
James Lawrence Getz D-PA voted no
Oliver James Dickey R-PA voted no
Henry Lutz Cake R-PA voted no
George Funston Miller R-PA voted no
William Henry Koontz R-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Solomon Newton Pettis R-PA voted no
John Covode R-PA voted no
James Kennedy Moorhead R-PA voted no
George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA voted no
Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI voted no
Frederick Enoch Woodbridge R-VT voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT voted no
Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI voted no
Chester Dorman Hubbard R-WV 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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Capitol Receipts, “To amend the instructions to the committee…: House Vote, Feb 18, 1869,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/40-H-626/to-amend-the-instructions-to-the-committee-on-banking (accessed 2026-10-17).