House roll call 308 · 41st Congress · Jun 1, 1870
To amend H.R. 2045, a bill to reduce internal taxes, by striking out section 20 providing for stamp taxes. (p. 3986-3)
On Jun 1, 1870, the House voted 64–112 (HR 2045). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 18–109, Democrats 45–0, Others 1–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 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
- 64
- No
- 112
- Did not vote
- 80
- Date
- Jun 1, 1870
By party
- Republicans18 yes · 109 no · 51 didn’t vote
- Democrats45 yes · 0 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL voted yes
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL voted yes
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL voted yes
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted yes
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN voted yes
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC voted yes
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC voted yes
- Thomas Fitch R-NV voted yes
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY voted yes
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted yes
- James January Winans R-OH voted yes
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH voted yes
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN voted yes
- George Washington Whitmore R-TX voted yes
- Edward Degener R-TX voted yes
- Amasa Cobb R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- William Crawford Sherrod D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Patrick Hamill D-MD
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ
- Orestes Cleveland D-NJ
- Thomas Fitch R-NV
- Henry Augustus Reeves D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- John Morrissey D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Ashley Griswold D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY
- Peter Wilson Strader D-OH
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- James January Winans R-OH
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson D-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- Joseph Showalter Smith D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Dodson Stiles D-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- George Washington Whitmore R-TX
- Edward Degener R-TX
- Robert Ridgway O-VA
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- William Smyth R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Charles Pomeroy R-IA
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- John Coburn R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- John Lynch R-ME
- Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI
- William Lewis Stoughton R-MI
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Randolph Strickland R-MI
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Joel Funk Asper R-MO
- David Patterson Dyer R-MO
- George Emrick Harris R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Israel George Lash R-NC
- John Taffe R-NE
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- William Moore R-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Charles Knapp R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- Noah Davis R-NY
- John Fisher R-NY
- Porter Sheldon R-NY
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH
- William Hanford Upson R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- William Hepburn Armstrong R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan R-PA
- Darwin Phelps R-PA
- Joseph Benton Donley R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- Lewis Tillman R-TN
- William Farrand Prosser R-TN
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA
- George William Booker O-VA
- William Milnes Jr. O-VA
- Lewis Mckenzie O-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- David Atwood R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Isaac Harding Duval R-WV
- John Seashoal Witcher R-WV
Did not vote
- Alfred Eliab Buck R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wiseham Paine D-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Marion Bethune R-GA
- Jefferson Franklin Long R-GA
- Stephen Alfestus Corker D-GA
- William Pierce Price D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- William Penn Wolf R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- George Washington Julian R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- William Northcut Sweeney D-KY
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- Boyd Winchester D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd R-MO
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- David Heaton R-NC
- Joseph Dixon R-NC
- John Manning Jr. D-NC
- John Thomas Deweese R-NC
- Francis Edwin Shober D-NC
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- George Woodward Greene D-NY
- Stephen Sanford R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- George Washington Cowles R-NY
- Charles Horace Holmes R-NY
- David Smith Bennett R-NY
- William Mungen D-OH
- Truman Harrison Hoag D-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- John Moffet D-PA
- John Roberts Reading D-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- William Jay Smith R-TN
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke O-VA
- James King Gibson O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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