Editing Morrill Tariff (section)

===House actions===
[[File:Justin Smith Morrill (cwpbh.04981) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|[[Justin Smith Morrill]]]]
When the [[36th United States Congress|36th Congress]] met in 1859, action remained blocked by a dispute until 1860 over who would be elected the [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]]. In 1860, the Republican [[William Pennington]] of [[New Jersey]] was elected as speaker. Pennington appointed a pro-tariff Republican majority to the Ways and Means Committee, with [[John Sherman (politician)|John Sherman]] of [[Ohio]] its  chairman.

The Morrill bill was passed out of the Ways and Means Committee. Near the end of first session of the Congress (December 1859–June 1860), on May 10, 1860, the bill was brought up for a floor vote and passed 105–64.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/36-1/h151 |title = TO PASS H.R. 338. (p. 2056). – House Vote #151 – May 10, 1860}}</ref>

The vote was largely but not entirely sectional. Republicans, all from the northern states, voted 89–2 for the bill. They were joined by 7 northern Democrats from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Five of them were "anti-Lecompton Democrats," who opposed the pro-slavery [[Lecompton Constitution]] for [[Kansas]].

Also, 14 northern Democrats voted against the bill.

In the Border States, four  "Opposition" Representatives from Kentucky voted for it, as did its cosponsor, Winter of Maryland, a Maryland "Unionist," and a Democrat from Delaware. Eight Democrats from the Border States and a member of the American Party from [[Missouri]] voted against it.

Thirty-five southern Democrats and three  Oppositionists voted against it; one Oppositionist from Tennessee voted for it.

Thus the sectional breakdown was 96–15 in the North, 7–9 in the Border States, and 1–39 in the South.

There were 55 abstentions, including 13 Republicans, 12 northern Democrats, 13 southern Democrats, and 8 southern "Oppositionists" and "Americans." (The remaining Representatives were mostly "paired" with opposing Representatives who could not be present.<ref>''Congressional Globe'', 36th Congress, 1st Session, p. 2056</ref>