To pass H.R. 4318, the organization of a mississippi river commission bill.

On Feb 5, 1879, the House voted 159–74 (HR 4318). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 101–22, Republicans 62–53, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 75 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: 159
No: 74
Did not vote: 62
Date: Feb 5, 1879

By party

Democrats101 yes · 22 no · 35 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 1 no
Republicans62 yes · 53 no · 27 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL voted no
Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
William Willis Garth D-AL voted no
Horace Francis Page R-CA voted no
John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
James Williams D-DE voted no
James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
Hiram Parks Bell D-GA voted no
Rush Clark R-IA voted no
William Aldrich R-IL voted no
William Lathrop R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted no
Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted no
John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL voted no
Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN voted no
George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted no
Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted no
John Hanna R-IN voted no
William Henry Calkins R-IN voted no
James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted no
Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN voted no
John Harris Baker R-IN voted no
John Griffin Carlisle D-KY voted no
Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
Llewellyn Powers R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Edwin Willits R-MI voted no
Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI voted no
Edwin William Keightley R-MI voted no
John Wesley Stone R-MI voted no
Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI voted no
Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted no
Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
Miles Ross D-NJ voted no
Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
John Henry Starin R-NY voted no
Solomon Bundy R-NY voted no
John Henry Camp R-NY voted no
John Newton Hungerford R-NY voted no
George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
Mills Gardner R-OH voted no
John Sills Jones R-OH voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted no
Henry Safford Neal R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
William Ward R-PA voted no
Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Edward Overton Jr. R-PA voted no
John Inscho Mitchell R-PA voted no
Levi Maish D-PA voted no
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted no
John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted no
Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA voted no
John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no
Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted no
George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI 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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