House roll call 105 · 45th Congress · Mar 25, 1878
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 3977, a bill authorizing the coinage of gold and silver upon the same terms and permitting the deposit thereof in the treasur
On Mar 25, 1878, the House voted 140–102 (HR 3977). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 107–27, Republicans 39–83, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 66 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
- 140
- No
- 102
- Did not vote
- 44
- Date
- Mar 25, 1878
By party
- Democrats107 yes · 27 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans39 yes · 83 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Horace Francis Page R-CA voted yes
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
- Levi Warner D-CT voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA voted no
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA voted yes
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA voted yes
- Rush Clark R-IA voted yes
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA voted yes
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA voted yes
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA voted yes
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted yes
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL voted yes
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN voted yes
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted yes
- John Hanna R-IN voted yes
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted yes
- Michael Doherty White R-IN voted yes
- William Henry Calkins R-IN voted yes
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted yes
- John Harris Baker R-IN voted yes
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Ryan R-KS voted yes
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
- William Walsh D-MD voted no
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted yes
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO voted yes
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted yes
- Frank Welch R-NE voted yes
- Frank Jones D-NH voted no
- Miles Ross D-NJ voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Wren R-NV voted yes
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Nicholas Muller D-NY voted no
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- Terence John Quinn D-NY voted no
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
- George Washington Patterson R-NY voted yes
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted yes
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted yes
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- Russell Errett R-PA voted yes
- Harry White R-PA voted yes
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted yes
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted yes
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX voted no
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA voted no
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI 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
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone 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
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-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
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins 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
- Andrew Rechmond Boone 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
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton 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
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins 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
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Davis R-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- 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
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Frank Jones D-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Terence John Quinn 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
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-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
- 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
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
Did not vote
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
Other votes
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