To amend H.R. 6143 by increasing appropriation for star routes from $5,690,663 to $5,900,000.

On Jan 29, 1879, the House voted 172–53 (HR 6143). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 113–2, Democrats 58–53, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 55 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: 172
No: 53
Did not vote: 74
Date: Jan 29, 1879

By party

Democrats58 yes · 53 no · 47 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans113 yes · 2 no · 27 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
Levi Warner D-CT voted no
James Williams D-DE voted no
Henry Richard Harris D-GA voted no
Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
Carter Henry Harrison D-IL voted no
John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL voted no
William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
William Hartzell D-IL voted no
Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN voted no
Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN voted no
George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN voted no
Albert Shelby Willis D-KY voted no
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
John Blades Clarke D-KY voted no
Benjamin Dean D-MA voted no
Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
William Kimmel D-MD voted no
Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO voted no
John Montgomery Glover D-MO voted no
Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted no
Frank Jones D-NH voted no
Miles Ross D-NJ voted no
Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
James Way Covert D-NY voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
George Monroe Beebe D-NY voted no
Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY voted no
Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY voted no
Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
Milton Sayler D-OH voted no
Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH voted no
Henry Luther Dickey D-OH voted no
Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH voted no
Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
Jacob Turney D-PA voted no
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN voted no
John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA voted no
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
Gabriel Bouck D-WI 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 amend H.R. 6143 by increasing…: House Vote, Jan 29, 1879,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-H-297/to-amend-h-r-6143-by-increasing-appropriation-for (accessed 2026-10-17).