House roll call 102 · 45th Congress · Mar 16, 1878
To reconsider the vote ordering the main question which was to agree to the report of the committee of the whole on h.j.r. 20, a resolution applying the amount
On Mar 16, 1878, the House voted 78–131 (HJR 20). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–109, Democrats 75–29, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 31 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
- 78
- No
- 131
- Did not vote
- 85
- Date
- Mar 16, 1878
By party
- Democrats75 yes · 29 no · 54 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans2 yes · 109 no · 31 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO voted no
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
- James Phelps D-CT voted no
- Levi Warner D-CT voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- William Hartzell D-IL voted no
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN voted no
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN voted no
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted yes
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- William Davis Veeder D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY voted no
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY voted no
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH voted no
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH voted no
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA voted no
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA voted no
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN voted yes
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
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
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- 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
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-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
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle 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
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- 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
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker 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
- 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
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Edwin Willits 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
- Frank Welch R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-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 Johnson Bacon 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
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-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
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-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
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- James Henry Randolph 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
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Henry Calkins 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
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-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
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- 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
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
Cite or embed this page
Capitol Receipts, “To reconsider the vote ordering the main…: House Vote, Mar 16, 1878,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-H-102/to-reconsider-the-vote-ordering-the-main-question-which (accessed 2026-10-15).