To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 4663, a bill forbidding further retirement of United States legal tender notes.

On Apr 29, 1878, the House voted 177–35 (HR 4663). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 114–8, Republicans 76–35, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 43 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: 177
No: 35
Did not vote: 67
Date: Apr 29, 1878

By party

Democrats114 yes · 8 no · 36 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans76 yes · 35 no · 31 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Horace Davis R-CA voted no
John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
Randall Lee Gibson D-LA voted no
William Wallace Crapo R-MA voted no
George Bailey Loring R-MA voted no
William Claflin R-MA voted no
William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
Amasa Norcross R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ voted no
John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
James Way Covert D-NY voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
Fernando Wood 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
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
George Augustus Bagley R-NY voted no
William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted no
William Henry Baker R-NY voted no
Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
John Henry Camp R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
John Newton Hungerford R-NY voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Richard Williams R-OR voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
William Ward R-PA voted no
Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no
Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
George Whitman Hendee R-VT voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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