To pass a resolution providing that in the opinion of the house the business interests of the country require an increase in the volume of circulating currency,

On Feb 21, 1870, the House voted 110–73. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 77–58, Democrats 32–16, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 74 members voted against their own party.

During the 41st Congress (1869–1870), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 110
No: 73
Did not vote: 71
Date: Feb 21, 1870

By party

Republicans77 yes · 58 no · 43 didn’t vote
Democrats32 yes · 16 no · 24 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA voted no
Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
Julius Levi Strong R-CT voted no
Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted no
Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted no
William Henry Barnum D-CT voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
James Buffinton R-MA voted no
Oakes Ames R-MA voted no
Ginery Twichell R-MA voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
George Merrick Brooks R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
William Barrett Washburn R-MA voted no
Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME voted no
John Andrew Peters R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI voted no
Austin Blair 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
John Taylor Bird D-NJ voted no
Thomas Fitch R-NV voted no
Henry Augustus Reeves D-NY voted no
Henry Warner Slocum D-NY voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY voted no
James Brooks D-NY voted no
Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY voted no
Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY voted no
Orange Ferriss R-NY voted no
William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted no
Charles Knapp R-NY voted no
Addison Henry Laflin R-NY voted no
John Charles Churchill R-NY voted no
George Washington Cowles R-NY voted no
Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY voted no
Hamilton Ward R-NY voted no
Noah Davis R-NY voted no
John Fisher R-NY voted no
James January Winans R-OH voted no
Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted no
William Hanford Upson R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH 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
John Roberts Reading D-PA voted no
Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
James Lawrence Getz D-PA voted no
George Washington Woodward D-PA voted no
Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA voted no
John Cessna R-PA voted no
Glenni William Scofield R-PA voted no
Calvin Willard Gilfillan R-PA voted no
Darwin Phelps R-PA voted no
Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI voted no
Lewis Tillman R-TN voted no
Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN voted no
James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted no
Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT voted no
Philetus Sawyer R-WI voted no
Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI voted no
Isaac Harding Duval R-WV voted no
James Clark Mcgrew 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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