House roll call 257 · 45th Congress · Jun 19, 1878
To suspend the rules and discharge the committee of the whole from further consideration of H.R. 4399, a bill establishing a board of pacific railroad commissio
On Jun 19, 1878, the House voted 105–103 (HR 4399). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 82–23, Republicans 22–80, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 45 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
- 105
- No
- 103
- Did not vote
- 94
- Date
- Jun 19, 1878
By party
- Democrats82 yes · 23 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans22 yes · 80 no · 40 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Horace Davis R-CA voted yes
- James Phelps D-CT voted no
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL voted yes
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
- Thomas McLelland Browne 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
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY voted no
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY voted no
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA voted yes
- George Bailey Loring R-MA voted yes
- William Claflin R-MA voted yes
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted yes
- Amasa Norcross R-MA voted yes
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME voted yes
- Edwin Willits R-MI voted yes
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI voted yes
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO voted yes
- Nathan Cole R-MO voted yes
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted yes
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted yes
- Miles Ross D-NJ voted no
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ voted yes
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Nicholas Muller D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- John Henry Starin R-NY voted yes
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted yes
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
- Milton Sayler D-OH voted no
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH voted no
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH voted no
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
- John Edward Kenna D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Horace Davis R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Levi Warner D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne 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
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-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
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-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
- 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
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- 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
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Edwin William Keightley 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
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- John Wesley Stone R-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
Other votes
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