House roll call 4 · 44th Congress · Dec 15, 1875
To pass a h. Res. Providing that no subsidies in any form be granted by the Congress to associations or corporations engaged in public or private business and t
On Dec 15, 1875, the House voted 223–33. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 136–22, Republicans 81–11, Others 3–1, Independents 3–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 33 members voted against their own party.
During the 44th Congress (1875–1876), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 223
- No
- 33
- Did not vote
- 51
- Date
- Dec 15, 1875
By party
- Republicans81 yes · 11 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats136 yes · 22 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents3 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted no
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY voted no
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY voted no
- John Daugherty White R-KY voted no
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA voted no
- Frank Morey R-LA voted no
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
- William Henry Stone D-MO voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC voted no
- John Adams Hyman R-NC voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
- Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
- John Reilly D-PA voted no
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA voted no
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted no
- John Ford House D-TN voted no
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- John Hancock D-TX voted no
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA voted no
- John Goode Jr. D-VA voted no
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
- John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
- Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
- William Terry D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- William Smith King R-MN
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- John Ford House D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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