To suspend the rules and pass a bill authorizing the payment of customs duties in legal-tender notes.

On Jun 19, 1878, the House voted 158–53. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 99–10, Republicans 58–43, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 53 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: 158
No: 53
Did not vote: 90
Date: Jun 19, 1878

By party

Democrats99 yes · 10 no · 49 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans58 yes · 43 no · 41 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
Levi Warner D-CT voted no
James Williams D-DE voted no
William Lathrop R-IL voted no
William Wallace Crapo R-MA voted no
Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks 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
Nathan Cole R-MO voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ voted no
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
James Way Covert D-NY voted no
William Davis Veeder D-NY voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
Anson George Mccook R-NY voted no
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
Andrew Williams R-NY voted no
Amaziah Bailey James R-NY voted no
John Henry Starin R-NY voted no
Solomon Bundy R-NY voted no
William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted no
William Henry Baker R-NY voted no
Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
John Newton Hungerford R-NY voted no
Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH voted no
John Sills Jones R-OH 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
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
Edward Overton Jr. R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
Richard Harvey Cain R-SC voted no
Robert Smalls R-SC voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no
Dudley Chase Denison 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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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend the rules and pass a bill…: House Vote, Jun 19, 1878,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-H-252/to-suspend-the-rules-and-pass-a-bill-authorizing (accessed 2026-10-14).