House roll call 101 · 45th Congress · Mar 16, 1878
To limit to 10 minutes the debate on unfinished business in committee of the whole, in order to permit the house to resolve itself into committee of the whole f
On Mar 16, 1878, the House voted 112–106. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 3–109, Democrats 108–2, Others 2–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 5 members voted against their own party.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 112
- No
- 106
- Did not vote
- 78
- Date
- Mar 16, 1878
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 2 no · 48 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans3 yes · 109 no · 30 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Harris Baker R-IN voted yes
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS voted no
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted yes
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- Edwin William Keightley R-MI
- John Wesley Stone R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Frank Welch R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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