To suspend the rules and adopt a resolution authorizing committee on ways and means, on february 14, to report H.R. 6134, a bill regulating duties on sugar, and

On Feb 10, 1879, the House voted 160–57 (HR 6134). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 109–7, Republicans 52–52, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 59 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: 160
No: 57
Did not vote: 80
Date: Feb 10, 1879

By party

Democrats109 yes · 7 no · 42 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans52 yes · 52 no · 38 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Levi Warner D-CT voted no
James Williams D-DE voted no
Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA voted no
Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA voted no
Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted no
Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN voted no
John Hanna R-IN voted no
Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted no
Thomas Ryan R-KS voted no
Benjamin Dean 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
Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME voted no
Edwin Willits R-MI voted no
Edwin William Keightley R-MI voted no
John Wesley Stone R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted no
Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO voted no
Nathan Cole R-MO voted no
Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO voted no
Henry Moses Pollard R-MO voted no
Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE voted no
John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
James Way Covert D-NY voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
John Mosher Bailey R-NY voted no
Solomon Bundy R-NY voted no
John Henry Camp R-NY voted no
Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted no
George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted no
Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
James Monroe 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
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
John Inscho Mitchell R-PA voted no
Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
Russell Errett R-PA voted no
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted no
Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI voted no
Robert Smalls R-SC voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted no
Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI voted no
Herman Leon Humphrey R-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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