To adjourn until next wednesday, made during consideration of H.R. 805.

On Nov 3, 1877, the House voted 24–179. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–101, Republicans 20–76, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 24 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: 24
No: 179
Did not vote: 99
Date: Nov 3, 1877

By party

Democrats4 yes · 101 no · 53 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 2 no
Republicans20 yes · 76 no · 46 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Horace Davis R-CA voted yes
James Williams D-DE voted yes
Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted yes
Rush Clark R-IA voted yes
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted yes
Walbridge Abner Field R-MA voted yes
William Claflin R-MA voted yes
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted yes
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted yes
Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted yes
Frank Welch R-NE voted yes
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted yes
Henry William Blair R-NH voted yes
Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ voted yes
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted yes
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted yes
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted yes
William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted yes
Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted yes
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI voted yes
Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted yes
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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